Health System Specialist - Research Committee Manager

Description:

THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS JOB ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025.

This position serves as Health System Specialist - Research Committee Manager within the Research and Development (R&D) Service. The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings, and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden.

Requirements:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/11/2025.

To qualify for this position at the GS-09 level, you must meet one of the following:

• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: perform qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques such as: data analysis, literature search, determining staff to workload ratios, development and administration of questionnaires, graphing, and calculation of means, modes, standard deviations, or similar statistical measures; conduct interviews with supervisors and employees to obtain information about organizational missions, functions, and work procedures; perform a variety of complex tasks related to the approval and maintenance of research projects including regulatory approvals, submissions that are tied to protocol execution, preparation of reports based on a statement of the issue or problem, observations and recommendations for action findings; and possess the ability to use Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Pro for word processing, communications, presentations, data manipulation and data storage. OR
• Education ( Transcript Required): To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related with a major study in hospital admin, public health admin, or related fields such as business or public admin with course work in health care admin. Education at the graduate level must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. OR
• Combination ( Transcript Required): Your total qualifying experience and total qualifying education are each figured as a percentage of the experience and education required for the GS-09 level of the occupation being filled and the total of the two percentages must equal 100 percent to qualify. Only graduate education in excess of 1 year may be used to qualify applicants for positions at the GS-09.To calculate, first identify the percentage of required education you have earned (when substituting, you cannot use the first 60 semester hours that you earned). Then identify the percentage of required experience you possess. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify at the GS-09. For example, an applicant who has 9 semester hours of graduate level education (i.e. 50% of graduate education required) and 6 months of creditable specialized experience (i.e. 50% of the required experience) would equal 100% of the required experience for the position.

To qualify for this position at the GS-11 level, you must meet one of the following:

• Specialized Experience: You must possess at least one (1) full year of specialized experience that equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Health System Specialist - Research Committee Manager and provided you with knowledge of the full scope of activities required to conduct single and multisite research in the areas of human subjects protection and Institutional Review Boards (IRB) through regulatory and policy compliance. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-9) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes 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: (a) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; (b) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; (c) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel and procurement; and knowledge of cognitive engineering, human factors engineering, human-computer interaction, or related fields. OR
• Education (Transcript Required): Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, three (3) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M. in the related field of the position to be filled (i.e., hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration). The education portion must include courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college, or university. OR
• Combination ( Transcript Required): Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education (beyond a master's degree) and specialized experience as described above to meet total experience requirements. The education portion must include graduate courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do to the work of this position (i.e., hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration).

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

• Administration and Management
• Critical Thinking
• Project Management
• Research

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.

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.

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/ .