The Supervisory Health Care Education Specialist position serves as the Designated Learning Officer (DLO) and supervisor for employees in the Health Informatics and Nursing Education for the Northern Arizona VA Healthcare System (NAVAHCS) within the Health Informatics / Education Service line.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/09/2026.

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-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 and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) : An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series. To qualify for the GS 1701 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following:

Degree:

You must possess a degree that included or was supplemented by major study in education or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position. OR, Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major in education, or in a subject-matter field appropriate to the position, plus appropriate experience or additional course work that provided knowledge comparable to that normally acquired through the successful completion of the 4-year course of study described above. In addition to the IOR, candidates must also fully meet the below grade requirements:

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: aligning and managing fiscal, human, and capital resources to meet organizational learning needs, conducting cost/benefit analysis of workforce learning proposals and innovative program, evaluating learning programs and courses for a large, diverse, or complex organization, developing strategies to meet the organization's strategic plan and identifies training mandated by regulatory agencies, VA, or other sources, modifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among staff in accordance with changing workflow, priorities, difficulty of the work, and capabilities of employees, developing performance standards and performing official reviews of work performance. preparing, reviewing, planning, monitoring, and/or establishing and administering the learning budget for a large and technically complex organization.

Preferred Experience:

COR Certification, Project Management, Contract Management, Timekeeping, Facilitating Meetings, New Employee Orientation Facilitation, Award processing. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Conflict Management Influencing/Negotiating Manages Resources Partnering Planning and Evaluating 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 primarily sedentary in nature, although some slight physical effort may be required to conduct training events. It may involve some walking, standing, bending, or carrying of light items. Stamina and concentration to meet crucial deadlines is required. There may be a certain amount of pressure due to time constraints. There is extensive use of computer systems. 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/ .