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RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

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$78,098 - $101,533

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GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and preserving important federal records for a veterans' health facility, ensuring they follow all government rules and stay safe for historical, financial, and legal reasons.

The role includes advising leaders on record-keeping policies, analyzing systems for better efficiency, and training staff on proper information handling.

It's a good fit for someone with experience in records management, strong communication skills, and a knack for organizing data in a government or large organization setting.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience at GS-9 level or equivalent, including public speaking, executive briefings, and training programs
  • Knowledge of federal laws, regulations, and policies for records preservation and information governance
  • Skills in analytical techniques, metrics, dashboards, audits, and surveys to improve program effectiveness
  • Understanding of agency information systems and archiving processes
  • For current federal employees: 52 weeks at GS-9 within the past year, proven by SF-50 form
  • Option for qualification via Ph.D. or equivalent in a related field, or combination of graduate education and experience
  • Transcripts required if qualifying through education

Full Job Description

The incumbent serves as a Records and Information Management Specialist - Facility Records Officer and will ensure that institutional federal records of vital, historical, fiscal, and legal value are identified and preserved in accordance with federal laws, regulation, directives, and policies.

They are the senior technical advisor responsible for formulating policy, performing strategic analysis, and ensuring federally mandated information governance and accountability measures are in place.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/06/2026.

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.

To qualify for this position at the GS-11 level, you must meet one of the following: Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-9) in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Records and Information Management Specialist - Facility Records Officer.

Qualifying specialized experience includes: possessing competence and confidence in public speaking, be articulate, and provide executive- level briefings; orchestrating adult learning and developmental training programs; applying and adapting analytical techniques and evaluative criteria to improvement effectiveness and productivity of a program; developing and utilizing metrics, dashboards, audits, surveys, and other reports to identify potential issues in a program area; extensive knowledge and understanding of agency information systems and archiving processes.

NOTE: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week.

~OR~ Education: Successfully completed three (3) years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D.

degree, or Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral degree in the related field of the position to be filled.

The education portion must include courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position.

Education must have been obtained in an accredited college, or university. NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

~OR~ Combination: Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education (beyond the first 2 years) and specialized experience as described above to meet total experience requirements.

The education portion must include graduate courses that demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do to the work of this position.

NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation. Experience must be clearly indicated in your resume.

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/.

Major Duties:

Duties: · Ensuring compliance with record keeping requirements for VHA records.

· Independently develops and utilizes records management metrics, dashboards, audits, surveys, and other reports to identify potential issues related to the health care system records management program.

· Responsible for the maintenance of the master records inventory and file plan for the Health Care System.

· Conducts a program of regular internal records management reviews and audits records maintained by service lines to assist offices within the organization in maintaining appropriate records management procedures.

· Formulates and implements professional organizer techniques and strategies to streamline file system organizations across a wide range of storage environments.

· Provides ongoing general and/or program specific training to staff related to records management, ensuring all records liaisons are trained on the creation, maintenance, use, storage, and disposition of the records created within their area of responsibility.

· Educates end-users on how to utilize inventory file plan organizations using variety of inventory and file plan systems and meta data repositories.

· Collaborates with Office of General Counsel upon receipt of a litigation hold, and advises personnel in litigation hold procedures, ensuring litigation related records are safeguarded and available.

· Advises health care system personnel on the maintenance and/or disposition of documents not included in an approved Systems of Records and acts as a point of contact for management of unscheduled records.

· Performs other duties as assigned Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pmTelework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST/PD99904S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/26/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/27/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CAZP-12889852-26-AC