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Program Analyst

Veterans Benefits AdministrationMultiple LocationsPosted 1 Oct 2026

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To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:10/07/2026. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: As a current Federal, GS employee you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. If you are a current VBA employee requesting reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS- 13 or higher and the promotion potential of your current position must be at least None.

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. For this position, specialized experience includes substantive experience applying disability compensation claims-processing requirements, policies, procedures, and/or business rules within the claims-processing environment.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate application of this knowledge in one or more of the following areas: 1. Claims Processing and Review: Processing, authorizing, reviewing, or performing quality review of disability compensation claims or award actions, including rating or non-rating award actions, and applying applicable claims-processing requirements, policies, procedures, and business rules. 2. Claims-Processing Systems Analysis and Support: Analyzing claims-processing system functionality or processing outcomes; researching or troubleshooting processing discrepancies; identifying potential user, procedural, data, business-rule, or system-related issues; or providing technical guidance concerning claims-processing systems or business processes.

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3. Systems Development, Enhancement, or Modernization: Applying Compensation claims-processing knowledge to the development, enhancement, modernization, or maintenance of claims-processing systems, including developing or reviewing business or functional requirements, business rules, enhancement recommendations, system functionality, process improvements, automation initiatives, or implementation activities. 4. Systems Testing and Validation: Applying Compensation claims-processing knowledge when conducting or supporting testing and validation of claims-processing systems or processes, including developing or executing test scenarios or test cases, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, validation of system changes, evaluation of expected versus actual processing outcomes, or identification and documentation of system defects or requirements-related issues.

Volunteer Experience: 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/. This announcement is being limited to the first 75 applications received. The announcement will close either on the published closing date at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) or on the day when the number of applications reaches 75 at 11:59 p.m.

(EST), whichever comes first. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job.

Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement.Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages.

We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume.

The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: USA Jobs Help Center - Resume Page Limit Applicant Guidance on the Two-Page Resume Limit

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