Health Care Education Specialist

This Health Care Education Specialist position is with Veterans Health Administration (Department of Veterans Affairs) in Phoenix, AZ. The position serves as Education and Training Manager for the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC). NCEHC is responsible for addressing the complex ethics issues that arise in healthcare across the VHA, including those ethics issues relating to clinical ethics, organizational ethics, organizational policy, and research ethics. Key duties: • The duties of the position include, but are not limited to: Coordinating national and regional education and training, identifying effective means of communication. Conducting national and local needs assessments to guide the development and design of new ethics education products and activities. Manage and/or lead the development of new course content, including writing and designing information about complex ethical issues for health care providers with varied professional backgrounds. Implementing continuous quality improvement processes with education and training programming and in support of health care delivery processes. Coordinating logistics for education program/project activities such as meetings and training sessions. Analyzing education or instructional problems and opportunities related to health care ethics. Serving as a point of contact for VHA staff participating in NCEHC training activities and with other VA and VHA staff responsible for staff education and training. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, various tours available Compressed/Flexible: Available at discretion of the Supervisor Telework: This position may be authorized for ad hoc telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This position may be authorized for Virtual Work. Virtual Work eligibility is for current VA employees that are already subject to the return to in person work mandate and highly qualified candidates with assigned space to work in-person from an agency worksite. Definition of Virtual Work: Employee works outside of original hiring duty station at a VA-owned or leased space. Return to Office (RTO): RTO mandates are in effect and selectees will be required to report to in-person work unless they are approved for an exception or an exemption. Any approval for an RTO exception, exemption, or extension will happen after a tentative job offer, but before a final job offer. Position Description/PD#: Health Care Education Specialist/PD034960 and PD034950 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/18/2026. 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. 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 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, but are not limited to: Supporting National or regional education or training by developing courses and training materials; Coordinating logistics for education program/project activities such as meetings and training sessions; and Experience designing and measuring the impact of education and training, training and development models, curriculum development, adult learning theory and/or instructional design, training needs, assessment gap analysis. GS-13 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: Developing and implementing training courses, course materials, and programs to support a program office or healthcare system; Coordinating and leading National or Regional education and training as an instructor or facilitator to improve ethics education; Mentoring on education and training efforts for staff; and experience applying continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes to education and training programs that support health care delivery. 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/. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.