Summary

The Supervisory Business Manager has responsibility for a wide range of administrative functions relating to the Anesthesia Service. The incumbent has full administrative management and responsibility for a wide range of functional program staff that are assigned, matrixes, or deployed to the Anesthesia Service. The incumbent is expected to have a broad knowledge of healthcare management systems and principles relating to these areas.

Duties

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Duties include:

• Responsible for providing input into strategic planning and direction, budgetary oversight, and the administrative management structure to support a comprehensive patient care delivery system for Anesthesia, Pain, and Critical Care.
• Responsible for the Anesthesia Service resource management and allocation, utilization and case management, information management, medical records management, and establishing and implementing performance measures to provide ongoing assessments of service quality, administrative proficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• Responsible for providing analysis and interpreting clinical performance measures pertaining to the wide array of clinical activities provided throughout the Service. Analysis and recommendations include the outpatient clinics, inpatient care, procedures, compliance, quality management, physician performance, and budget as well as other information requested from leadership (VA Central Office, Office of the Inspector General, VISN, Director's office, or Chief of Staff).
• Serves as an expert for matters related to data capture and the use of spreadsheets and graphical software to help organize, analyze, and apply these data for managerial and clinical purposes.
• Makes decisions/determinations based on modem healthcare practice within the framework of applicable laws, regulations, policies, and community standards.

Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm Monday-Friday or as determined by supervisor.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Business Manager/PD06449-O

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not authorized

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, 08/10/2026.

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.

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. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to knowledge of/experience with:

• A range of qualitative and quantitative methods of assessing and improving programs
• Methods used to implement complex management processes and systems
• Administrative policies, regulations, directives, and principles used to administer VHA Healthcare programs
• Data management techniques
• Relationships between different VHA healthcare programs.

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

• Accounting
• Administration and Management
• Classification
• Customer Service
• Data Management
• Information Management
• Interpersonal Skills
• Leadership
• Performance Management
• Recruitment/Placement

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.

Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary, although may require some walking, standing, stretching and carrying light objects such as files, binders, books, or papers. Work also requires spending time performing keyboarding duties and speaking on the phone for extended periods of time.

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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