Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/06/2026. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Provides leadership and guidance in coordinating medical administration needs; Responsible for making and implementing decisions directly affecting patient care; Provides active and well informed administrative participation in planning for the delivery of healthcare; Manages on-site meetings with other agencies/organizations and program officials; Analyzes and interprets workload and other data used in strategic resource planning initiatives as a result of VHA program usage; Serves as a consultant on legal aspects of matters involved in admission, retention, and discharge of patients; scheduling and outpatient clinical services, medical eligibility/member benefit information and medical records administration; Served as an advisor to the upper echelon of management concerning short and long range station plans and overall station policies; Administers monetary accounts and released funds based on regulatory requirements; Prepares and presents patient administrative statistics required for internal reporting by management, professional staff and Central office; Performs workload surveys and scheduling studies in clinics and admission service and various professional services and recommends changes in the work distribution and scheduling policies; Manages, directs, supervises, and administers a variety of hospital-wide service functions which are primarily work supporting programs and processes (i.e. Inpatient administration, Outpatient clinical administration, Health Information Management (HIMS), Data Extraction & Management, Program Application Specialists, Centralized Call Center Scheduling, scheduling compliance, enrollment/eligibility programs, Beneficiary Travel, and Veterans Transportation System and activities contributing to the Revenue Cycle. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Communications Decision Making Leadership 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work is generally sedentary but may involve walking between buildings on campus to meetings, committees and staff rounding. May involve operating government vehicle to conduct business For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.