Program Analyst

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/19/2026. 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: MCA duties include: Ensure that monthly identification. provision of costing of contracts, supplies, and equipment expenditures throughout the facility for optimal cost precision; Ensures cost and encounter data is correctly aligned; Analyzes the existing workload capture systems (PTF, PCE, Event Capture, MCAD, Power BI, etc) to determine best source data for the MCA database; Prepares and gives oral presentations on facility project objectives and status; Performs monthly maintenance duties and audits on MCA; Utilizes cost accounting principles, theories, and practices.

VERA Duties: Monitors the current Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) processes and new budget funding model programs; ensures the capture of cost, workload, and budget funding model (VERA) data; Evaluate resources utilization and budget performance for the medical center; Reviews activities in the medical record coding system; Skilled in applying analysis of various qualitative and/or quantitative methods; Ability to evaluate, analyze and interpret findings; Develop reports using a variety of methods such as VISTA and VSSC systems; Knowledge of various database software languages, data analysis, and statistical analysis techniques, operations research techniques; performing a wide range of analyses, reporting, project management, and training activities; Knowledge of the range of administrative laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to the veterans health administration; Skilled in written and oral communication.