Medical Readiness Specialist

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About the Position: This Medical Readiness Specialist serves as the Medical Readiness Manager and technical advisor to the Military Treatment Facility Commander with 51st Medical Group Osan, Air Base, in Korea, developing plans for the Medical Readiness Program associated with medical contingency response planning, training, and equipping for training, exercises, real-world events, and deployments.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes assisting planning, organizing, and directing the Medical Readiness Program ensuring program comply with legal and regulatory requirements, monitoring unit emergency response program operations and requirement, and conducting inspections to measure the effectiveness of the various medical readiness functions or managing the Medical Readiness Training Program.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Public Health, Emergency Management or Homeland Security, Medical Readiness, Program Management.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

Major Duties:

• Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the Medical Readiness Program ensuring program comply with legal and regulatory requirements and meet customer needs.
• Coordinate with other entities to identify hazards and threats to the MTF (Military Treatment Facility), update MTF plans and procedures, and disseminate to working groups and leadership.
• Develop criteria for exercise contingency responses plans, checklists, program reviews, and quality assurance reviews.
• Conduct inspections and audit to measure the effectiveness of the various medical readiness functions in meeting goals and objectives, contingency response practices, and planning.
• Research and determine or recommend actions or interpretation of issues that impact the organization.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for base-level Home Station Medical Response (HSMR) requirements related to Medical Counter-Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (MC-CBRN) sustainment.
• Plan and manage the Medical Readiness Training Program by working with readiness response teams in the development, execution, and monitoring of training programs.
• Train personnel as needed on how to input training completion into the Medical Readiness Training Program’s system-of-records and access training requirements.
• Identify unit Medical Readiness Program resource requirements for inclusion in the unit Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Execution Year budget submission.