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Health System Specialist - Facility Planner
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 36 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $102K – $133K Apply by Aug 18, 2026 Health System Specialist ENTJESTJINTJISTJ OperationsTrades
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The incumbent serves as the Facility's Senior Space Planner at the Washington DC VA Medical Center, responsible for strategic space planning, space management, and activation planning for all HCS campuses, CBOCs, and leased sites. The incumbent operates as a key advisor to the Medical Center Director, Associate/Assistant Directors, Chief of Engineering, Chief of Staff, and other senior leaders on all matters involving space utilization, master planning, and construction related activation.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties include, but are not limited to Leading development, implementation, and maintenance of the facility's long- and short-range space master plan, ensuring alignment with VISN, VHA, and facility strategic plans and projected workload and demographic trends.
- →Managing the space inventory, including Capital Asset Inventory (CAI), and ensures accurate documentation of current and planned space assignments, functional adjacencies, and utilization across all sites of care.
- →Developing space programs and functional layouts using VA space criteria; analyzes supply and demand gaps and propose space solutions to address clinical, research, administrative, and support requirements.
- →Leading or co-leading the development of Strategic Capital Investment Planning (SCIP) submissions and other capital proposals (major/minor construction, leases, NRM, activation funding, and major equipment) in coordination with Engineering, Finance, and program offices.
- →Using VSSC, DSS, VISTA, data warehouse, and other tools to evaluate workload, access, demographics, and perform and performance data to justify capital and space initiatives.
- →Integrating national and VISN strategic planning guidance into the facility master plan and advises leadership on the capital implications of new or expanded programs, missions, affiliations, or care delivery models.
- →Serving as the facility's primary space planning subject matter expert on integrated project teams (IPTs) for construction, renovation, lease, and realignment projects.
- →Developing and maintains master phasing diagrams, including construction zones, logistics, swing space, and impacts to patient care, parking, and support services, coordinates phasing solutions with Project Managers and Engineering staff.
- →Performing complex staging and phasing analyses to minimize disruption to clinical operations, identifies space related project risks, and recommends mitigation strategies and sequencing.
- →Providing overall programmatic oversight of construction related activation, including detailed planning for occupancy, move sequencing, furniture/fixtures/equipment (FFE), IT, signage, and transition activities.
- →Overseeing and works with the GS 12 Activation Coordinator, who manages day-to-day activation planning, move coordination, and tracking of activation deliverables, risk, and milestones across assigned projects.
- →Ensuring timely development and submission of activation business plans, economic analyses, activation funding requests, and supporting documentation; monitors execution to ensure resources and schedules meet project requirements.
- →Designing and conducting analytical studies related to space utilization, access, organizational efficiency, and facility configuration, using qualitative and quantitative methods (e.g., flow charts, critical path, forecasting, feasibility studies).
- →Preparing executive level briefings, master plans, reports, and presentations for the Director, VISN, VACO, and external stakeholders on space planning, capital proposals, and activation status.
Requirements
- ✓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.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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