Medical Administration Officer (Chief, Health Administration Service) - RELOCATION INCENTIVE

Veterans Health Administration; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration seeks a leader to direct HAS programs across broad patient administration areas, providing resource allocation data and interpretation to guide management decisions. You will support staff with technical and administrative services, maintain medical records, ensure patient privacy, and uphold regulatory requirements governing ROI.

Collaborating with chiefs of clinical and administrative services, you will ensure HAS work integrates with other services, apply

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of health benefits management and administration practices, principles and techniques.
• Comprehensive knowledge of complex management and organizational techniques, systems, and procedures to deal analytically and systemically.
• Knowledge of resolving major conflict in policy and program objectives.
• Ability to apply new theories, concepts and/or development to supply program problems.
• Ability to perform key decision making and policy development responsibilities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of advanced principles and practices related to the management of health care delivery systems and the ability to apply this knowledge to solve unique problems.
• Board knowledge of the organization and functions of activities involved in providing administration management.
• Computer knowledge.
• Knowledge of and skill in applying qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques.
• Ability to develop guidance on techniques for management and methods for improvement.

Skills

Health benefits management

Management techniques

Policy conflict resolution

Analytical methods

Guidance development

Program administration

Computer skills

Qual/Quant analysis

Improvement methods

Tools

Computer knowledge

Job description

Directing HAS programs in broad patient administration areas, providing resource allocation data & related interpretation for assessing management of resources, technical & administrative support for staff, maintenance/evaluation of medical records, assuring patient privacy, adherence to regulatory requirements governing ROI. Working with Chiefs of clinical & administrative services to ensure HAS work is integrated with work of other services.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/29/2026. 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

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:

• thorough knowledge of health benefits management and administration practices, principles and techniques
• comprehensive knowledge of complex management and organizational techniques, systems, and procedures to deal analytically and systemically
• knowledge of resolving major conflict in policy and program objectives
• ability to apply new theories, concepts and/or development to supply program problems
• ability to perform key decision making and policy development responsibilities
• comprehensive knowledge of advanced principles and practices related to the management of health care delivery systems and the ability to apply this knowledge to solve unique problems
• board knowledge of the organization and functions of activities involved in providing administration management
• computer knowledge
• knowledge of and skill in applying qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques
• and ability to develop guidance on techniques for management and methods for improvement.

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/.