Supervisory Health Care Education Specialist

Veterans Health Administration • Prescott, AZ

20d • Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisory Health Care Education Specialist serves as the Designated Learning Officer (DLO) and supervises employees in Health Informatics and Nursing Education for the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System (NAVAHCS), within the Health Informatics / Education Service line. The position provides leadership for educational programs across health professions training, staff education, workforce development, and the employee life cycle. It aligns learning programs with organizational needs and the NAVAHCS mission and vision, and oversees personnel and department operations.

The role is responsible for assessing and evaluating organization-wide learning programs, applying current learning methods and technologies, and developing workforce training plans and employee development and succession-planning programs. It also manages learning resources and budgets, evaluates proposals and their costs and benefits, and pursues funding through initiatives or grants. The position supervises staff and programs covering areas such as the Talent Management System, leadership and supervisor training, scholarships and tuition reimbursement, new employee orientation, safe patient handling, and nursing education simulation.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Meet the GS-1701 Individual Occupational Requirement through a degree that includes or is supplemented by major study in education or a relevant subject-matter field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-11, including relevant experience in organizational learning resources, learning-program evaluation, strategic training needs, workload management, performance reviews, and learning-budget administration.
• Current federal employees and certain former federal employees applying at GS-12 must meet the time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at GS-11; supporting SF-50 documentation is required.
• Complete required background/security investigation and pre-employment onboarding requirements.
• Participate in the VA seasonal influenza vaccination program.
• Serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Submit transcripts if education is used to meet qualification requirements; qualifying education must be from an appropriately accredited institution.

Nice To Haves

• COR certification.
• Project management experience.
• Contract management experience.
• Timekeeping experience.
• Facilitating meetings.
• New Employee Orientation facilitation.
• Award processing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction for aligning educational programs across health professions training, staff education, workforce development, and the employee life cycle.
• Use educational needs assessments, needs identified by facility supervisors, and senior leadership input to establish organizational education goals.
• Coordinate the conception, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of local learning programs, ensuring alignment with the NAVAHCS mission and vision.
• Ensure current learning and training techniques, theories, and technologies are established and used.
• Acquire additional funding through special initiatives or grants; conduct cost/benefit analyses of workforce learning proposals and innovative programs; and develop business cases for future learning resources using organizational data.
• Review, analyze, and evaluate NAVAHCS-wide learning courses and programs for quality and effectiveness.
• Supervise staff and programs related to the Talent Management System, Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior, Training and Travel, Leadership Training, Supervisor Academy, RNTTP, Scholarships and Tuition Reimbursement, Safe Patient Handling, New Employee Orientation, and the Nursing Education Services simulation lab, as well as Health Informatics staff.
• Provide first-level supervision and accountability for department operations and personnel, including staff in GS grades 6–12 and Title 38 nursing employees in administrative roles.
• Modify, distribute, and balance workload and tasks according to changing workflow, priorities, work difficulty, and employee capabilities.
• Develop performance standards and conduct official work-performance reviews.
• Develop long- and short-term training plans and objectives in accordance with national, VISN, and facility priorities.
• Design, initiate, implement, and evaluate succession-planning and employee-development programs.
• Prepare, review, plan, monitor, establish, and administer the learning budget for a large and technically complex organization.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family, with specific eligibility depending on position and employment status.
• Potential credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work or military service, subject to approval and not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager