Supervisory Health System Specialist - Health Care Center at Harlingen

Description:

The primary purpose of the position is to serve as the Supervisory Health Systems Specialist for the VA Health Care Center at Harlingen, provide oversight and supervision of all specialty and primary care outpatient clinic administrative operations throughout the VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System, and serve as an advisor on clinic operations to the health care system senior leadership.

Requirements:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/18/2026.

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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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:

GS-12 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include: knowledge of the theories and principles of healthcare administration and organization, and of administrative laws, regulations, policies and precedents applicable to the administration of important programs; ability to gather, assemble and analyze facts, draw conclusions, devise solutions, conduct informational interviews, and maintain effective relationships with a wide variety of officials; ability to thoroughly analyze problems and to design, develop, evaluate, modify, and implement projects and programs to meet current health care industry and agency requirements; ability to identify necessary changes and improvements in the management process and to develop new and different solutions to problems; and, knowledge of the duties, responsibilities, and training requirements as COTR (including project management, market research and negotiations) for the building lease and any other outside agency contracts which deliver services to a health care facility.

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

• Leadership
• Communication
• Administrative and Management
• Organizational Performance Analysis

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 sedentary. Some work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds.

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/ .