This position is the Executive Assistant (EA) to the Associate Medical Center Director at the Beckley VA Medical Center, Beckley, WV (BVAMC). The incumbent advises, implements, improves and coordinates various medical center programs and functions, including manpower utilization, fiscal management, work distribution, delegations of authority, management controls, and correspondence and compliance systems.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/02/2026.

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, 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: Health System Administration Series, 0671 Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR)

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 GS-5 and above : 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 ln-service

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 Individual Occupation Requirement above you must meet specialized experience and/or education as described below: Health System Specialist GS-11

Specialized Experience:

You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Working directly with healthcare professionals and other administrators to solve problems in support of the delivery of patient care and education/training. Plans, distributes, coordinates, and monitors work assignments of others. Analyzing and synthesizing data from diverse data systems to improve business processes.

OR, Education:

Successfully completed a Ph.D., equivalent doctoral degree, three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, Or LL.M in the related field of the position to be filled (i.e., hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration). The education portion must include courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college, or university.

NOTE:

Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

OR, Combination:

Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education (beyond a master's degree) and specialized experience as described above to meet total experience requirements. The education portion must include graduate courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do to the work of this position (i.e., hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration). Health System Specialist GS-12 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: Working within a health care setting, working directly with clinicians and local leadership to solve problems in support of the delivery of patient care Applying organizational and system-wide strategies for continuous quality improvement Experience running and supervising an administrative component of a health care system Comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of qualitative/ quantitative methods as well as analytical/evaluative methods for development and management of administrative programs, assessment and improvement of administrative program effectiveness Improvement of complex management processes and systems Knowledge of the range of national administrative laws, policies, regulations and precedents Expertise in a wide variety of computer and data management packages and VA databases; knowledge of agency program goals and objectives Skill to plan, organize, and lead teams to accept and implement recommendations; and broad knowledge of Federal government policies, regulations, and trends in the areas of management 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/ .