Summary

This position serves as Without Compensation Research Health Science Specialist within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings - and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden. Please note - there is not pay associated with this position.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Experience: You must possess general experience in any type of work that demonstrates (1) providing operational support and coordination for the implementation of research and quality improvement projects as directed
• Handling project questions and problem independently in coordination with the others
• Education: You must possess a a doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a Engineering Sciences field (Copies of transcripts are required at the time of application)
• You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: #232 Project Management Clinical Data Collection/Documentation Critical Thinking Technical Credibility Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience - including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. - Peace Corps - AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g. - professional
• philanthropic
• religions
• spiritual
• community
• student
• social)
• Volunteer work helps build critical competencies - knowledge - and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment
• You will receive credit for all qualifying experience - including volunteer experience
• Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week
• Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities
• Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment
• Physical Requirements: The work is predominantly sedentary
• Typically - the employee sits comfortably to do the work
• However - there will be some walking - standing - bending and carrying of items of moderate weight such as large binders - banker style file boxes - meeting materials - papers - books or small parts
• Hand and eye coordination for delicate testing procedures may be the only special physical demand required to perform the work.

Duties

• The primary responsibilities of the incumbent will be to conduct behavioral - neuroimaging - and neurophysiological data collection
• and behavioral - neuroimaging - and neurophysiological data analysis for Human Studies
• The incumbent will provide operational support and coordination for the implementation of VA research and quality improvement projects as directed - handles project questions and problem independently Manage timelines and deliverables for successful completion of the projects - writes research policies - guidelines and procedures - and other documents - facilitating the compliance with all regulatory and administrative project requirements
• Responsible for medical abstraction activities - including identifying and screening eligible candidates and validating appropriate data elements of the project
• The incumbent will provide operational support and coordination for the implementation of VA research and quality improvement projects as directed - handles project questions and problem independently in coordination with the PI
• Manages timelines and deliverables for successful completion of the projects - writes research policies - guidelines and procedures - and other documents - facilitating the compliance with all regulatory and administrative project requirements
• May be responsible for medical abstraction activities - including identifying and screening eligible candidates and validating appropriate data elements of the project
• In all activities - adhere to Good Research Practice guidelines
• Work Schedule: Full-Time (Without Compensation) Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Position Description/PD#: Without Compensation (WOC) Research Health Science Specialist/PD00000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required