Health Systems Administrator (Associate Director)

Associate Medical Center Director

This position serves as the Associate Medical Center Director for the Lyons VAMC. This is a Temporary Promotion, not to exceed 1 year. The incumbent exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections. This position reports directly to the Director of the NJ VA Healthcare System in the Senior Executive Service (SES).

Responsibilities include :

• Planning, coordinating, supervising, and directing various administrative and health related services.
• Participating on a day-to-day basis in top level executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolving complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applying specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Performing financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercising full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serving as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercising a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Providing timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensuring that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Representing the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serving as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
• Leading facility implementation and oversight of President's / VA / VHA / VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and / or Community Care.
• Serving as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.

Work Schedule : Monday through Friday 8 : 00am-4 : 30pm (hours may vary based on the needs of the Medical Center)

Telework : This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Position Description / PD# : Health Systems Administrator (Associate Director) / PD081180

Relocation / Recruitment Incentives : Not authorized.

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI) : Not approved.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS) : Not authorized.

Requirements :

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.

Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12 / 31 / 1959.

Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.

Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.

Qualifications :

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11 / 06 / 2025.

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 as described below :

Specialized Experience : You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to :

You will be rated on the following competencies for this position :

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; religious; 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 : Work is sedentary. There are no special physical demands. The work environment includes everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of offices and meeting and training rooms.

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 / .