Health System Specialist

The Health System Specialist (Enterprise Imaging Program Manager) serves within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Diagnostic Services, and is responsible for providing national-level program management, strategic planning, and technical oversight of the VA Enterprise Imaging Program.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/09/2026. 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 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 and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements 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 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. OR, 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 following specialized experience at the lower grade 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: Analyze imaging informatics utilizing quantitative and qualitative techniques in collaboration with Services leadership, clinical imaging specialty stakeholders, and other personnel as assigned to special projects, leading workgroups as relevant to the program and objectives. Draft comments and responses to proposed legislation, budget initiatives and major policy changes in within Clinical Services. Mastery knowledge, experience, and expertise in digital image/enterprise imaging operations, supported health care clinical domains and imaging modalities, organizational, data management, and analytical abilities due to the specialized nature of the work 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/.