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Health Systems Administrator (Assistant Director)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-siteHarlingen, TX$126K – $164KApply by May 18, 2026Health System AdministrationISTJISTPOperations
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This position serves as the Assistant Medical Center Director located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), VA Medical Center (VAMC). The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
- →Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
- →Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
- →Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
- →Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
- →Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
- →Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
- →Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
- →Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
- →Provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
- →Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- →Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
- →Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
- →Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and/or Community Care.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification 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.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: e77f97f3-e5ef-488e-8836-6fbe86bca5e9
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