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Health System Specialist - Activations Coordinator
Veterans Health Administration
📍 Washington, District of Columbia On-site Credentialing Posted 2026-06-17
💰 $85,447 – $111,087

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Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/30/2026. 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. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. OR Specialized Experience: (for positions above GS-5): 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: Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement. OR, Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included: Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program. In addition to the Individual Occupational Requirement and Time-in-Grade requirement, applicants must have the specialized experience as described below: GS-11 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience leading complex space activation, transition, and large-scale move projects in a hospital or healthcare system, with a strong command of clinical workflows. Preferred Experience: Highly qualified applicants will demonstrate that they have experience planning and sequencing multi-phase moves, functioning as a COR (Contracting Officers Representative) or equivalent for move/activation contracts, and developing data-driven tools, dashboards, and analyses to monitor readiness, space utilization, risks, and performance. They will also excel at high-level communication and stakeholder management, regularly briefing senior leadership, facilitating interdisciplinary workgroups, negotiating among services with competing priorities, and translating complex analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations that protect patient safety and minimize operational disruption during major transitions. You will be rated based on the following Best Qualified Criteria (ensure your resume reflects the following): Experience leading or coordinating large, multi-phased moves or relocations in hospitals or health systems, integrating requirements from engineering, IT, logistics, and clinical services. Direct experience planning and executing activation/deactivation of new or renovated clinical and administrative spaces, including frameworks, timelines, and governance for activati
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