Clinical Administrative Specialist

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/04/2026. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-9. 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.

Preferred Experience: Experience serving as a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) administering service, consignment, and clinical staffing contracts. Experience preparing acquisition documents such as PWS, SOW, IGCE, QASP, and J&A in accordance with the FAR and VA acquisition policy. Experience managing equipment inventory, lifecycle planning, and procurement in a clinical or healthcare setting. Experience with SharePoint and Power Automate to build and maintain administrative workflow and tracking tools.

Experience serving as an Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator (ADPAC) for a large clinical service or supporting VA information systems access management. Quality Ranking Factors are knowledge, skills, and abilities that could enhance performance in the position but are not required for qualification. Applicants who possess these will be ranked higher; however, failure to meet these factors will not eliminate an applicant from consideration.

COR Level II certification with experience working HCHT (High-Cost High-Tech) contracts. COR Level I certification with two or more years of experience managing HCHT equipment and clinical service contracts. COR Level I certification with one or more years of experience managing HCHT equipment procurement. You may qualify based on your experience and/or educationas 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.