Program Analyst, VERA Coordinator

Full Job Description

This position is located at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The incumbent provides analysis of workload capture across the entire Health Care System, evaluates the performance of services and clinicians using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and provides advice to leadership to assist in coordinating health care delivery and meeting revenue goals.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/02/2026.

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-09. 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-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Coordinating the collection and prioritizing of critical Information; developing and processing administrative documents, researching and developing resource material, inputting and extracting data for analytical studies in relation to plans, policies and standard procedures; demonstrating knowledge of healthcare systems; and developing and conducting intra/inter-agency briefings and presentations using Microsoft office products.

OR Education (Transcripts Required): Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or a LL.M., if related.

OR Combination (Transcripts Required): Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11.

You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - .Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment:The work is mostly sedentary. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work.

However, there may be some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items like papers or books.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: The incumbent supports the medical center in its data collection and documentation improvement initiatives, which includes responsibility for the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation, (VERA) Committee and associated workgroups.

The incumbent heads the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation, (VERA) Committee and serves as a point of contact and consultant in all areas of financial and clinical workload reports.

Incumbent performs analysis and interpretation of health care data.

The incumbent identifies, develops, coordinates, and communicates mechanisms to improve and streamline processes, particularly those that have an impact on funding.

The incumbent independently prioritizes the processes to be aligned with National, Network, and facility priorities.

Incumbent analyzes, interprets, and summarizes a variety of work processes performed by personnel that are functionally different, but in interrelated operations, using computer systems impacting data quality.

Incumbent develops studies, summaries, and analyses from various source data collection systems, which the incumbent needs to validate inpatient and outpatient workload at the patient encounter level.

Incumbent coordinates and communicates with managers, physicians, and other clinical and administrative staff to improve the uniformity and standardization of clinical and workload reporting.

Incumbent develops graphical presentations of statistical data, as well as composite material involving data and other types of material, for briefings, publications, and reports.

Incumbent functions as review specialist and revision coordinator for newly developed or modified information retrieval systems.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst, VERA Coordinator/PD688-2005-O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.