The Assistant Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) is a senior supply chain management officer for a VA Health Care System with multiple sites of care and supported catchment areas, responsible for the development and integration of a cohesive supply chain. Supports oversight, guidance, management and integration of supply chain operations across the organization, including planning and coordination with fiscal, acquisition, clinical and administrative operations.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/18/2025. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Overseeing, guiding, managing and integrating supply chain operations across a health organization, including planning/coordination with fiscal, acquisition, clinical and administrative operations. Establishing, monitoring and managing the performance and measurement of logistics functions throughout a medical facility for all aspects of the supply chain including requirements determination, acquisition planning/coordination/oversight, purchasing, transportation, distribution, tracking, inventory management/control, reconciliation of undelivered orders, and disposition of supplies and equipment; Managing a team of subordinates to accomplish major organizational goals and tasks in a hospital logistical setting. Writing and managing contracting. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Acquisition Strategy Administration and Management Financial Management Leadership Manages Human Resources Planning and Evaluating Problem Solving Technical Competence 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: Work is primarily sedentary, but requires visits to warehouse and storage areas, loading docks and other facilities. 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/.
Duties to include, but not limited to: Plans and manages all levels of supply chain activities involved in sourcing, procurement and logistics management. Coordinates and collaborates with a variety of stakeholders; including clinicians, professional/administrative peers, suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers. Oversees, negotiates, and integrates functions with primary responsibility for linking major business functions and business processes within and across organizations into a cohesive and high performing business model. Identifies specific requirements for money, manpower, material, facilities, and services needed to support the program and correlating those requirements with program plans to assure needed support is provided at right time and place. Exercises knowledge of agency program planning, funding, and management information systems and utilizes broad knowledge and skills of organization functions and activities to provide logistical support and coordinate and evaluate the efforts of functional specialists to identify specific requirements to develop and adjust plans and schedules for the actions needed to meet requirements timely. Plans forecasts and executes budget for healthcare resources and services, supplies, subsistence, durable medical equipment, medical gases, expendable/non-expendable (EX/NX) and capital equipment, inventory management, warehouse operations, transportation, and distribution. Serves as a senior logistics management expert for the VA HCS (an extremely large and complex medical facility that includes multiple hospitals, numerous community based outpatient clinics (CBOCs) and other health care activities dispersed over a large geographic catchment area) which supports an employee equivalent population exceeding 4,000 personnel and trains a large number of residents, interns, and other trainees in a wide variety of medical specialties and health care occupations through a number of affiliation agreements; includes full medical, surgical, and specialty services; research; multiple outpatient clinics; nursing home care units; and often a domiciliary; and the facility's surgical complexity designation is rated complex based upon the highest VHA level of facility infrastructure. Serves as a senior logistics official to coordinate support, answer questions and resolve logistical problems with VBA, NCA, or Vet Centers working through subordinate staff to ensure that equipment, supply, and service requirements of those administrations are addressed. Attends regular meetings, engagement, communications, etc. that are conducted with leadership in VBA, NCA, Vet Centers or other supported agency entities such as call centers in the catchment area to ensure that their unique logistics needs and requirements are being met. Serves as a critical member of the VA HCS leadership team and reports directly to the CSCO who is responsible for providing expert technical and analytical advice to the Medical Center Director, Deputy/Associate Director(s), and the Chief of Staff respectively in matters relating to all acquisitions, logistics and supply chain matters. Helps to coordinate communication within the logistics community, within network, between networks, and between agencies. In the absence of the Chief, speaks and acts for the CSCO and has full authority to direct meetings, administer programs, commit resources resources, etc. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Logistics Management Specialist (Assistant Chief)/PD99838S