Medical Administration Officer

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/07/2024. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Exercises the delegated supervisory authorities and responsibilities; using any of the following to direct, coordinate, or oversee work; supervisors, leaders, team chiefs, group coordinators, committee chairs, or comparable personnel. Responsibilities in dealing with officials of other units or organizations, or in advising management officials of higher rank. Assuring reasonable equity of performance standards and rating techniques developed by subordinates or assuring comparable equity in the assessment by subordinates of the adequacy of contract capabilities. Direction of a program or major program segment with significant resources; making decisions on work problems presented by subordinate supervisors, team leaders, or similar personnel. Evaluating subordinate supervisors or leaders and serving as the reviewing official on evaluations of nonsupervisory employees rated by subordinate’s supervisors. Designs and oversees strategies to manage and integrate functions to improve and maximize efficiencies to enhance revenue collections. Reviewing and approving serious disciplinary actions involving nonsupervisory subordinates. Knowledge of requirements necessary to prepare budgets in compliance with DVA and local Fiscal Service budgetary requirements to assure timely, realistic and accurate submission of projected funds, accurate and timely updates to management, effective communication on status of funds and to analyze spending for constantly fluctuating fund control points. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Analysis and Problem Solving Communications Human Resources Management Leadership Project Management 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 primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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/.
This position is temporary, not to exceed 1 year. The Medical Administrative Officer is located in The Health Administration Service and has a major responsibility for managing patient and health administrative programs and activities to provide effective support to the clinical services in this research and highly affiliated teaching health care deliver system.