Management and Program Analyst/VERA Coordinator

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/21/2026. 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Serve as a technical advisor to senior facility leadership providing guidance, recommendations and monitoring in the implementation, management, and evaluation of VERA oversight programs and ensure that the programs meet required standards and/or criteria; Conduct special studies and analysis, including feasibility studies, cost/benefit analysis, etc.

and submit findings, results, and recommendations in a timely, concise, an accurate manner; Develop databases that support benchmarking of data, including financial data, patient populations and workload data; Responsible for the design and development of reports and databases, translating data into meaningful management information that is made available to a wide variety of constituents, including oversight bodies and stakeholders; Coordinate and disseminate data, special projects, and other information pertaining to relevant program responsibilities with medical center staff for review and/or action; Work closely with the Health Information Management Section (HIMS) to correct discrepancies and work through the identified areas of risk; Identify data required for use in the management and direction of programs, develop new or modified administrative program policies, regulations, goals, or objectives; Perform clinical or administrative training on areas of improvement based on the analysis performed within VERA.