Lead Program Analyst

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Management and Policy.

The salary for this position will be adjusted based on the duty location. View the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) pay charts for more information: Salaries & Wages (opm.gov).

Resumes must be no more than 2-pages in length.

Applicants must meet all the qualification requirements, including education, and any selective placement factors described below within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

Education used as part of an application package will only be considered if complete transcripts are submitted and must be from an accredited institution as recognized by the U.S.

Department of Education. To see if your institution is accredited, please follow this link: Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs.

Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position.

Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) Analyzing Medicare and Medicaid claims data and/or grants and contracts data to identify trends, anomalies, or potential fraud, waste, and abuse in support of federal oversight activities; and (2) experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) and implementing query optimization best practices; and (3) experience generating data to support oversight activities such as audits, evaluations, and investigations; and (4) experience using agile best practices to lead day to day operations of a data analytics team; and (5) Writing and maintaining Python scripts and using Git for version control in a collaborative data analytics environment 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).

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.

Your resume should include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week. Federal experience is not required.

The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. Major Duties:

Serves as an expert analyst, providing critical analysis of HHS and OIG programs and activities (approximately 75% of the time).

The incumbent provides data analytic, audit, inspection, and evaluation expertise, drawing on knowledge and understanding of the substantive nature and interrelationships of the data, programs, planning processes, forecasting methodologies, and management concepts to assist OIG components in conducting oversight work.

Critically analyzes, synthesizes, and reports data and findings to satisfy the data provisioning and ad hoc analysis requests from each of the OIG components.

Meets with requestors and/or OIG managers to determine the scope of the project and proposes a plan for analysis and a target completion date.

Performs a broad range of qualitative and/or quantitative analysis methods for the assessment and improvement of the DDA program effectiveness or the improvement of complex management processes and systems.

Formulates computerized programs, models, charts, tables, other analytic work products and provides appropriate documentation to aid readers in the correct interpretation of the data and results from analysis work conducted to assist OIG oversight and management components.

Plans, schedules, and coordinates assigned workload using agile processes in order to meet required deadlines and working simultaneously with multiple projects in various stages of the work process.

Develops and prepares data for component work papers, written reports, memos, and other documents to summarize results from analysis work conducted to support audits, evaluations, inspections, investigations, and to present recommendations.