Health System Specialist- Executive Administrator

The position is located in the Hampton VA Healthcare System, in the Associate Director Patient Care Service (ADPCS). The Hampton VAHCS is a general medical surgical facility with 477 beds serving a 15-county area in eastern Virginia and a 10-county area in northeastern North Carolina and has a veteran population of more than 220,000 veterans. A teaching hospital providing a full range of patient care services, Hampton VA features state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/26/2026.

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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The 0671 series requires specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. All applicants must meet one of the Individual Occupational Requirements listed below in addition to the grade specific requirements. Applicants may qualify based on their experience and/or education as described below:

Education:

Undergraduate and Graduate Education in a Major study of hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. Transcripts required.

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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

Minimum Qualifications:

You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Analyzing and evaluating administration health care operations by identifying training needs to develop training, reference materials, and implement plans for software packages; Overseeing data validation, automated data processing systems, and reporting activities related to hospital information systems; Designing, preparing, and validating management reports to support budgeting, quality assurance, utilization management, and executive-level planning; Conducting analysis to identify and deliver solutions for areas of improvement of patient demand, workload trends, and bed utilization.

Note:

Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month & year starting and year ending dates AND hours worked per week.

OR, Education:

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a PH.D. or equivalent degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. if related.

OR Combination:

Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond two (2) full years of graduate education. 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/ .