Summary

This position is located in the Office of the Director of a local VA health care system and reports to the Director, or to a Chief Compliance Officer who reports to the Medical Center Director. The primary purpose of the position is to provide leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of the compliance activities for the medical facility, ensuring a standardized and effective approach to compliance using the compliance framework, Compliance and Integrity standards, processes, and resources.

Duties

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The major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Develops, recommends, and implements Compliance and Integrity program goals for operational units within the local health care system, assisting front-line units in building their compliance activities using the nationally established compliance framework.
• Develops detailed plans, tasks, milestone dates, and schedules to ensure proper sequencing of events and tracking of processes and costs throughout the life cycle of compliance programs and projects.
• Reviews programs and projects to determine how they can be accomplished with the least disruption to workers and mission operations, ensuring directions and schedules are met in a timely manner.
• Provides local health care system and Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN) senior executives and executive committees with regular reporting on the implementation and effectiveness of the Compliance and Integrity program, communicating urgent or significant compliance issues on an ad hoc basis.
• Exercises oversight of the Compliance and Integrity program's implementation, including recommending corrective action, remediation, or disciplinary measures when compliance goals are not achieved or when noncompliant behavior is detected.
• Establishes program objectives and units of measure for determining when compliance objectives have been met, alerting leadership of any material noncompliant or unethical activity.
• Implements national Compliance and Integrity controls, solutions, and programs at the local level, developing internal controls in partnership with risk owners to manage and mitigate key risks affecting objectives, regulatory compliance, or reputation.
• Establishes and maintains the "tone at the top" for Compliance and Integrity, providing regular communications to staff and drafting guidance on program management and reporting.
• Performs periodic health care system-wide reviews of internal controls over prioritized risk areas, planning and initiating a comprehensive evaluation system for reviewing proposed costs, program development, and performance.
• Participates in meetings with internal staff and operational units to determine compliance program status and milestones, detecting potential slippage or increased costs in advance.
• Ensures processes for open communication channels, including Compliance and Integrity Helpline referrals, directly reported issues, and compliance investigation reviews, are performed in accordance with VA policies and national VHA guidance.
• Analyzes and prioritizes local risks by working closely with senior management to develop a proactive risk mitigation strategy, managing short- and long-range planning activities including multi-year work plans.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00a.m. - 4:30p.m. PST

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Integrity and Compliance Officer)/PD99467S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• 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. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that 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, 09/22/2026.

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.

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.

Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR)

• Education:
  
  • Major study hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.

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• 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.

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 GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Qualifying specialized experience is defined as 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:

(1) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems.

(2) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups.

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(3) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement. At this level, applicants would have obtained this experience working within a health care setting providing leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of compliance activities; ensuring a standardized and effective approach to compliance using the compliance framework, compliance and Integrity standards, processes, and resources; and experience using complex analytical problem-solving methods, principles, and theories to identify extensive program data and conduct a variety of studies and investigations.

NOTE: Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must clearly indicate the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

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

• Attention to Detail
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Learning
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork

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; religions; 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.

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 for 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.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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