This Program Analyst position is located within the Benefits Delivery Protection and Remediation (BDPR) staff of the Office of Financial Management (OFM), in Washington, DC. The incumbent will contribute to the specification, design, testing, evaluation, and deployment of reengineered systems, business processes, software applications, and facilities contributing to the prevention of Fraud Waste and Abuse (FWA) in VBA.

Duties

Specific duties include: Utilizes statistical analysis, and/or other techniques designed to effect process improvement and more efficient business practices. Ability to work with higher level management, contractors, and members of other administrations in interpreting and applying policies and requirements to negotiate important issues. Assists with implementation to meet organizational needs through assessment of organizational activities, processes, structures, attitudes, values and cultures using individual and group interviews and/or surveys. Designs and conducts comprehensive management studies where the boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance. Develops and briefs presentations and position papers relative to organizational and program requirements, improvements, and evolution. Participates in discussions, meetings, conference calls with agency administrators, senior subject matter and technical personnel, and other federal agency officials to secure and provide information; investigate facts; present conclusions and recommendations. Advises management of unique conditions and issues with affect program activities and provides guidance on interpretation and implementation of new and revised legislation policies, regulations and procedures. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst; GS-0343-14/PD# 38548A 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

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:08/18/2023. 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Applicant must have: Experience with both quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze, evaluate, and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of data and fraud prevention. Knowledge of the VBA database organization. Demonstrate expert communication skills to present and articulate findings to management; and experience with orunderstanding of continuous process improvementstrategies with Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Experience in analyzing internal and external stakeholders and contractors to design and develop recurring reports, visualizations, and extracts. Experience in the use of database software and dark web tools. Strong project management skills are a plus. 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: 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/.

Education

There is no educational requirement for the GS-14 grade level.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Lauranetta Hyman
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]