Health Systems Administrator

Assistant Medical Center Director

This position serves as the Assistant Medical Center Director located within the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Indianapolis, IN. The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations. Responsibilities duties of the position include, but may not be limited to the following :

• Plan, coordinate, supervise, and direct various administrative and health related services.
• Participate 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.
• Resolve 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.
• Apply specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Perform financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercise full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serve as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercise a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Provide timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Represent the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve 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.
• Lead 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.
• Serve 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 : 8 : 00am - 4 : 30pm Monday - Friday

Telework : Not Authorized

Virtual : This is not a virtual position.

Requirements Conditions of Employment :

Qualifications :

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10 / 30 / 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 :

Preferred Experience but not required : 2+ years of supervisory experience and experience working with executives.

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 / .

Education There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Additional Information Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave : Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.