Department of Veterans Affairs

Health Care Facilities Specialist

San Antonio, Texas Full time

Health Care Facilities Specialist

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): San Antonio, Texas

Salary Range: $75776 - $98514 Per Year

Job Summary: The incumbent serves as technical advisor and subject matter expert for all facility planning and programming initiatives. Exercises delegated responsibility for insuring the timely and satisfactory accomplishment of all facility planning projects. Formulates STVHCS strategic and capital plan. Manages all Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) initiatives, sharing agreements and disposition/divestiture activities. Coordinate and accomplish special projects independently.

Major Duties:

  • Skill of space management to develop space solutions to various health care departmental needs which include redeveloping existing space; adding to existing space; reassigning existing space; creating new space (lease, new construction, etc.) assessing space utilization; determining best use of unassigned space. Maintaining space inventories. Coordinate with VA facility planners, interior designers, medical equipment planners, engineers, logistics, OIT, contracting officers and the respective service and section chiefs to successfully activate each building/space and furniture, fixture, and equipment (FF&E) activation activities. Effectively communicate and formulate, both orally and in writing, reports and presentations that will be used to provide guidance, advice and recommendations to Health Care System senior leadership. Knowledge of the different functions and motivations of various employees and groups in the health care delivery system and ability to communicate effectively with each to gather information, present recommendations, and coordinate services. Ability to make effective oral and written reports and presentations, prepare and present graphical statistics, present recommendations and conclusions based on analysis and evaluation in a form and manner most useful to management officials. Accomplish space management to develop space solutions to various health care departmental needs which include redeveloping existing space; adding to existing space; reassigning existing space; creating new space (lease, new construction, etc.) assessing space utilization; Ability to gather, assemble and analyze facts, draw conclusions, devise solutions, and/or conduct informational interviews. Knowledge and ability to address issues and devise insightful recommendations that will result in organizational improvements. Gather, assemble and analyze facts, draw conclusions, devise solutions, and/or conduct informational interviews; Ability to address issues and devise insightful recommendations that will result in organizational improvements; Skill to plan, organize, and direct team study work and to negotiate effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations where the proposals involve significant agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures, or may be in conflict with the ongoing. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30-4pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Care Facilities Specialist/PDHA671-00325-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/05/2026. 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. This position has Selective Placement Factor (SPF): You must possess the following to be considered for this position, possess one year of the following experience to be considered for this position: Auto-CAD/BIM expertise for space planning and design Construction oversight from planning through activation and decommissioning Project management and coordination across multiple stakeholders and disciplines In addition, you may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Qualifying specialized experience includes skill of space management to develop space solutions to various health care departmental needs which include redeveloping existing space Auto-CAD /BIM expertise for space planning and design; Construction oversight from planning through activation and decommissioning; ability gather, assemble and analyze facts, draw conclusions, devise solutions, and/or conduct informational interviews; reassigning existing space; creating new space (lease, new construction, etc.) assessing space utilization; determining best use of unassigned space. Project management and coordination across multiple stakeholders and disciplines, require extensive changes in established procedures, or may be in conflict with the ongoing. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR, 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or, LL.M., if related OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education. 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/.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12900571. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 03/05/2026. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit

Application Deadline: 2026-03-05