Health Systems Administrator - (Assistant Director) Not to Exceed 1 Year

Assistant Medical Center Director

This position serves as the Assistant Medical Center Director located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), VA Medical Center (VAMC). The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations. Duties include, but may not be limited to the following :

• Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
• Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
• Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's / VA / VHA / VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and / or Community Care.
• Serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.

Work Schedule : Monday - Friday 7 : 30am - 4 : 00pm CST

Position Description / PD# : Health Systems Administrator - (Assistant Director) Not to Exceed 1 Year / PD99901S

Relocation / Recruitment Incentives : Not Authorized

Requirements

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12 / 31 / 1959.

You may be required to serve a probationary period.

Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10 / 28 / 2025.

Time-In-Grade Requirement : Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

You must possess at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-13) in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Health System Administrator- Asst Director.

Qualifying specialized experience is defined as progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and / or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following :

Applicants must also possess :

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position :

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.