Health System Specialist - Executive Officer to the Assistant Director

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/29/2026. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): This occupational series has a minimum qualification entry requirement.

You must possess one of the following to qualify for the Health System Specialist: Education: 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, Specialist Provision for In-Service Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substitution 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 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 or she is assigned); and Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with period evaluations of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience GS-12: 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: Provides consultative service to leadership through analysis of service, workload, staffing levels, cost-effectiveness; helps formulate professional and allied health policies and programs; Provides technical expertise in the field of healthcare planning and comprehensive advice and assistance to superiors regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities; Maintains accurate utilization and cost information and provides an analysis of the effect of resource availability on the overall productivity of the various organizational units; Complies with all directives and special requirements in preparing annual and cyclic budget documents; Independently identifies and collects necessary data and presents results in written and oral form, which are well organized, supportable, and clearly expressed; Provides full staff assistance on administrative matters affecting patient care and organizational policy and serves as a staff member directly supporting the top management team.

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/.