Lead Health System Specialist

This Lead Health System Specialist position is with Veterans Health Administration (Department of Veterans Affairs) in Phoenix, AZ. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the sole Facility Capital Asset Planning Officer for the Washington DC Veteran Affairs Medical Center (DC VAMC), a Joint Commission-accredited, complexity level 1A facility serving Veterans in the District of Columbia, Southern Maryland, and Northern Virginia. This position is also responsible for leading a team comprised of the Facility Planner (Space Planner), the Activations Coordinator, and the Interior Designers. Key duties: • This is a Lead Health System Specialist position, responsible for enterprise capital asset planning and health system strategic development for DC VAMC and VISN 5. The Specialist serves as the primary liaison between the DC VAMC with VISN and VACO on capital asset strategy. Providing expert analytical, advisory, and coordination support to executive leadership on capital asset planning, market assessment growth planning, infrastructure activation, and strategic planning for all DC VAMC sites of care, including the medical center, CBOCs, CRRC, and leased business center locations. This position serves as the lead and technical authority for strategic capital planning, market assessment, and infrastructure investment for DC VAMC and all associated locations. The Specialist leads development and execution of enterprise-wide capital asset strategies that directly influence healthcare delivery, access, and financial performance across DC VAMC and VISN 5. Major duties include, but not limited to: Leads development and direction of the DC VAMC market assessment growth plan, organizational strategic planning, and process improvement activities related to strategic capital planning. Serves as chairperson of the Strategic Planning Council, providing leadership and managerial expertise to optimize resources, establish long-range objectives, and respond to changes in health care delivery. Guides service line leaders, managers, and field staff through systematic planning processes that identify health system needs, prioritize actions and strategies, and monitor progress toward VHA, VISN, and facility goals. Develops and maintains a comprehensive health care system-wide capital master plan that integrates healthcare delivery, performance improvement, purchased care, utilization management, and financial stewardship objectives into actionable strategies and policies. Designs and implements data-driven tools, models, and dashboards to evaluate space utilization, access, demand, performance, and return on investment for capital projects and leases across all DC V AMC sites of care. Conducts complex quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify capital gaps, prioritize investments, and recommend project portfolios that support DC VAMC, VISN 5, and VHA strategic goals. Develops and maintains a comprehensive health care system-wide capital master plan that integrates healthcare delivery, performance improvement, purchased care, utilization management, and financial stewardship objectives into actionable strategies and policies. Leads development of facility-level capital master plans and major lease strategies, ensuring alignment with V ACO and VISN 5 capital planning policies, directives, and prioritization frameworks. Leads analytics, planning, coordination, financing, and execution of the complete lifecycle of the DC V AMC strategic capital plan, applying advanced health system analysis techniques. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 7:30 am EST - 4:00 pm EST. Telework: Authorized, as determined by the agency policy. Virtual: This is a virtual position. This position may be filled as virtual (i.e., the employee may work at a VA facility or VA-leased space other than the facility that is hiring the employee; telework has not been authorized). VA supports the use of filling virtually to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. Potential duty location may be discussed during the interview process. Position Description/PD#: Lead Health System Specialist/PD2604160 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, 09/01/2026. 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-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. This occupational series has an Individual Occupational Requirement - for this series, the following Basic Requirement must be met in addition to the Specialized Experience. 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 (for positions above GS-5): 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. Special Provision for Inservice 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. In addition to meeting the IOR above, you must meet the experience as described below: GS-13: GS-13 - Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience: one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-12) in the Federal Service that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Health Systems Specialist. Qualifying specialized experience is defined as, but not limited to: Leading market assessment growth plan and organizational strategic capital planning; developing and maintaining facility-level capital master plans and major lease strategies; conducting complex analyses to identify capital gaps; designing and implementing data-driven tools, models, and dashboards; leading analytics, planning, coordination, financing, and execution of the complete lifecycle of the strategic capital plan; and overseeing activation planning for new or expanded shared facilities, clinics, and specialized programs. Best Qualified Criteria: 2 years of experience in health system capital planning. 4 years of experience in strategic and analytical ability. 2 years of experience of experience in project management. 2 years of experience in leadership or team supervision. Stakeholder coordination and influence. Strategic communication skills. Judgement and problem-solving. 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.