Technical Information Specialist (Medical Science)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is with the Defense Health Agency, Directorate of Academics, Research, and Training, located at Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu Hawaii.

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.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans 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 Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) 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 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.

Basic Requirement for Technical Information Specialist (Medical Science): Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with a major study in the subject-matter field of the position to be filled.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) OR Experience: Four years of experience that provided a knowledge of the basic principles, theories, practices, techniques, and terminology of a discipline or subject-matter field; an understanding of the standard methods, procedures, and techniques of research and analysis in the subject-matter field; and where appropriate, ability to read and comprehend nontechnical material in one or more foreign languages.

Such experience must have been equivalent to that which would have been gained through a 4-year college curriculum. OR Combination: A combination of education and experience as described above.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes managing electronic health information resources by overseeing acquisition, licensing, access configuration and system maintenance, coordinating with vendors, IT, and subscription agents to negotiate licenses, resolve access issues and ensure compliance; and analyze usage data to prepare reports and train staff and users on electronic resources.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the lower grade/level in the federal service (GS-9).

OR Education: I have successfully completed a Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major study in Library and Information Science, or related fields such as Medical Informatics.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) 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.

(Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) 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-9).

Major Duties:

• Manage health care information resource needs in medical and nursing specialties.
• Coordinate with vendors on new information resources.
• Management of scientific and medical electronic full-text periodicals.
• Maintain accurate records on purchases.
• Serve as the Webmaster and administrator of the Medical Library’s homepage.
• Evaluate materials that support medical specialties, nursing, and graduate education to maintain the currency of the collection.