Health System Specialist (Office of Deputy Director)

The VA Long Beach Healthcare System (VALBHS) is currently recruiting Health System Specialists in Long Beach, California. The incumbents serve in the Office of the Deputy Director. This position supports VALBHS's administrative & strategic operational initiatives: identification of problems, analysis of data, recommendation of resolutions based on specific knowledge of the organization's objectives/priorities, resources, and catchment area.

• Interpret policies, developing and implementing local policies, defining administrative requirements to executive leadership on related issues.
• Evaluate and monitor administrative activities and make substantive recommendations for program improvements.
• Perform demand/capacity analysis, templating and scheduling.
• Lead data analysis of performance related to existing internal and/or external requirements.
• Interpret agency program goals/objectives, sequence/timing of key program events and milestones and/or methods of evaluating program events.
• Act as a liaison or point person for communications with persons and/or groups internal or external to the VAMC.
• Provide health system management to support services in full support of the medical center mission, goals and objectives.
• Oversee staff support work in short and long range planning efforts while obtaining and/or consolidating planning information.
• Establish administrative controls aimed at ensuring remedial actions are completed and proposed.
• Oversee duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system.
• Analyze and evaluate on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations.
• Lead data analyses of performance related to existing internal and/or external requirements.
• Disseminate results of projects via reports, dashboards, and consultation.
• Consult with colleagues to analyze, interpret, and anticipate financial trends.

• Health System Administration Series, 0671 Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR):
  • 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: 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,

• 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: Ability to collaborate with an Executive Leadership Team and senior leaders, manage staffing and recruitment activities, communication skills and ability to prioritize competing demands, timely completion of action items and quick turnarounds on urgent tasks, and ability in planning and coordinating high-level initiatives.
• Special Provision for In service 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.

• Attention to Detail
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Learning
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service