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Job Field: Legal Jobs
Location: Rockville, MD
Salary: $105,211.00 - $136,771.00 / Per Year
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Phone: (301)443-5112

JOB SUMMARY:

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The Indian Health Service (IHS) is the principal federal health care provider and health advocate for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). The IHS goal is to raise Indian health status to the highest possible level. IHS provides leadership and direction to programs and activities designed to improve health outcomes to over 1.9 million AI/AN through a system of IHS, Tribal and Urban operated facilities and programs.

For information on the IHS visit IHS.GOV

The IHS is required by law to give absolute preference to qualified applicants who meet the Secretary of the Interior's definition of Indian for appointment to vacancies within the IHS in accordance with established IHS policy as outlined in the Indian Health Manual Part 7, Chapter 3. The IHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

This position is being announced concurrently under Delegated Examining procedures. Please review vacancy announcement number IHS-14-HQ-1022940-DE for eligibility requirements. NOTE: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement in order to be considered.

 

The successful candidate for this position will serve as the Investment Manager(IM) and Program Manager(PM) for the National Patient Information Reporting System (NPIRS). The purpose of this position is to provide top-level Federal oversight and management of the NPIRS Program and Investment, in compliance with HHS Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) and IHS agency policy. The candidate for this position will also serve as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for the contracts supporting NPIRS. The position is part of the Office of Information Technology(OIT) management team and advises the Division of Information Technology(DIT) Director, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and senior IHS management on all aspects of enterprise-level data management and analytics.

See http://www.ihs.gov/jobsatihs/ for more details.

TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Occasional Travel
• There will be occasional travel in this position; approximately 15%

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED

• No

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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• The selected applicant will be subject to a pre-employment background
• investigation, which will include a fingerprint check.
• If applicable-Selective Service registration (Males born after 12/31/59)
• U.S. Citizenship is required