Health System Specialist - Executive Assistant

Job Title

Health System Specialist - Executive Assistant

Major duties include:

• Serves on boards and committees on an ad hoc basis at the direction of the Deputy Chief of Staff.
• Performs duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system.
• Provides full staff assistance on administrative matters affecting operation of a VA Medical Center.
• Advises and assists management responsible for planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of administrative programs.
• Provides reports, studies and recommendations to the boards and committees for action.
• Coordinates special systematic reviews, internal management reporting programs and other assigned projects.
• Reviewing, assessing, and developing ways to improve performance on various medical center performance measures.
• Assists in the development, tracking, and data compilation required for individual staff performance measures, in conjunction with the Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff.
• Formulating and participating in the development of management policies, programs, and operations, reviewing, and coordinating actions to ensure compliance with policy.
• Conducting comprehensive studies or surveys to improve the efficiency and economy of operations.
• Develops operational protocols, procedures, and methods for assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of operating programs in meeting goals and objectives.
• Provides comprehensive resource cost analysis and cost effectiveness studies to evaluate and, as appropriate, support decisions involving organizational funds.
• Review the cost effectiveness and utilization with appropriate recommendations of various programs.
• Developing service agreements/sharing agreements, standard operating procedures, and addressing problems impacting clinical program efficiency of operations.
• Familiarity with Advanced Clinic Access (ACA) and with the facility and VISN ACA plans and objectives.
• Managing budgets in a cost-effective manner, preparing annual budget forecasts, and overseeing the preparation of submittals related to balanced scorecards, business plans, and management briefings.
• Preparing reports describing program effectiveness improvements to meet VA and Joint Commission (JC) accreditation standards.

Full-Time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, subject to change based on the needs of the facility.

AD-HOC only at supervisor discretion

This is not a virtual position.