This position is located in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Office of Human Capital Services (HCS). HCS is responsible for developing and coordinating the VBA's Talent Management efforts. The office supports the strategic planning framework for VBA and maintains it to effect implementation of VA/VBA Strategic Goals, Objectives and Strategies. This office coordinates VBA's responses to various congressional requests for planning information and subsequent achievements through reports.

Duties

Specific duties include: Researches, investigates, and conducts comprehensive studies relating to the effectiveness and efficiency of major administrative and management operations. Establishes schedules for planning, coordination, and accomplishment of work to facilitate the planning process for HCS Staffs work. Makes recommendations for new or modified developments, priorities, and objectives to improve the performance in mission-related programs. Conducts formal and informal presentations, as required, to justify and defend programmatic aspects of mission-critical programs. Performs comprehensive program analysis and evaluation, taking into consideration factors such as cost effectiveness, attainment of program goals and objectives, and compliance with pertinent legal and regulatory guidelines. Assists managers and staff by projecting staffing needs, provides assistance with writing position descriptions, assists with developing job analyses, assists with preparing performance plans, reviews performance appraisals for technical accuracy and drafts disciplinary and adverse actions. Obtains guidance from OHR for management on the application of regulatory rules on issues from abuse of leave, insubordination, reassignments, realignments, change to lower grade and pay issues. Tracks status of appraisals and processing of incentive awards, obtains appropriate signatures and fund approval, and forwards to OHR for action. Keeps abreast of performance management policies and regulations. Provides for the overall administrative management for the organization such as maintaining hard and soft file systems. In the absence of the Executive Assistant, acts as the lead in providing guidance to the Program Assistant staff and Executive Director. Define administrative requirements, and/or provide advice to management on related administrative issues. Applies new policies, provides advice on requirements, maintains administrative systems, and prepares administrative paperwork. Assists with HCS correspondence assignments Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high-quality products and services; is committed to continuous process improvement. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. The grade progression for this position is GS-12/13. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst; GS-12 39372A, GS-13 39371A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/16/2023. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees, former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, or a current federal employee applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment must meet time in grade requirements. 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. NOTE: This does not apply to Non-Federal Applicants, or applicants applying for consideration under Non-Competitive Authority (i.e.... "30% or more Disability", VRA, and/or Schedule A). To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-12 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Experience in written communication methods and techniques to accomplish continuing coordination, preparation of studies, evaluations and presentations. Experience planning, directing, controlling, and monitoring data and tasks or related support programs. Experience in conducting a detail analysis of complex functions and work processes. GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Experience in written communication methods and techniques to accomplish continuing coordination, preparation of studies, evaluations and presentations. Demonstrated ability to development and implement data management strategy. Experience in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or functions related to office administration and key metrics. Experience in adapting analytical techniques and evaluation criteria to the measurement and improvement of program effectiveness and/or organizational productivity. Experience in conducting a detail analysis of complex functions and work processes 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 mostly sedentary in nature. Some walking, stooping, and bending is required while attending meetings, inspecting work operations, and/or traveling. 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/.

Education

There is no education substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Angela Davis
• Phone: (202) 461-5332
• Email: [email protected]