<p>The Health System Specialist serves as the Planner for the Eastern Oklahoma VA Healthcare System (EOVAHCS) under the direction of the Executive Director. This position includes monitoring administrative performance measures, special studies, surveys, projects, planning, evaluation, statistical analyses and general staff support.</p> <p>DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.205) for this occupation.</p> <p>Major duties of this position include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Serves as the primary Facility Liaison and point of contact for senior leadership planning activities and initiatives, and ensures all reporting requirements and suspense items are completed in a timely and proactive manner. </li><li>Chief Planning Officer is responsible for processing any notices or database updates regarding the service delivery plan in a timely fashion. </li><li>The incumbent oversees the daily operation of the service, ensures that agency policies and priorities are being following; develops performance standards, evaluates work performance of subordinates. </li><li>Facilitates recurring meetings with facility planning personnel to provide planning-related updates and training (as necessary), track planning processes and implementation progress, and foster communication and collaboration among planning personnel. </li><li>Advises senior leadership on policy changes, resources, capital infrastructure, historical workload, utilization projections, and demographic trends which may influence current and future facility planning. </li><li>Designs a service delivery plan, understanding supply and demand, that provides timely and accessible care and that leverages all community resources, where possible. </li><li>Analyzes, develops, recommends, and implements plans to establish, relocate, expand, downsize, and divest of sites of care and services, where appropriate, with the goal of rightsizing assets based on market projections and in collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders. </li><li>Incumbent performs formal management, analysis preparation of facility official space and program planning and the submission of that plan to the senior leadership. </li><li>Leads the facility planning cycle to include: environmental scanning, gap analyses, strategy development and prioritization, implementation, and tracking. </li><li>Collaborates with Fiscal and Engineers, to facilitate the development of an annual strategic capital investment plan based on the approved service delivery plan. </li><li>Incumbent ensures appropriate phasing of all planning initiatives and monitoring of implementation progress. </li><li>Serves as Team Lead of Facility Planners, directing the completion of planning tasks and responsibilities, and coordinating planning activities to ensure the integration of health system planning priorities into a consolidated service delivery plan. </li></ul> <p>Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.</p> <p>Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 8am to 4:30pm</p> <p>Telework: This position is authorized for telework - situational (ad hoc) and has NOT been authorized as remote. Location negotiable may be discussed during the interview process to meet the Return To Office requirement.</p> <p>Virtual: This is not a virtual position.</p> <p>Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist - Facility Planner/PD13522-O and PD13521-O</p> <p>Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized</p> <p>Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved</p> <p>Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Note Authorized</p> <p>Financial Disclosure Report: Not required</p> <p>Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. Typically performs work in an adequately lighted and climate-controlled office, Assignments may require occasional travel.</p>