This position functions as a management and program assistant within the Nursing- Specialty Care service located at the VA Long Beach HealthCare System. The position performs a full range of clerical duties and performs organizational analysis studies.

Duties

Duties: Identify, propose, and coordinate follow up on problems identified by quality assurance, safety or risk management. Monitor data relevant to performance management. Prepare initial and ongoing professional evaluation data. Coordinate data collection of workload statistics, quality measures, and credentialing and privileging tracking conducted by lower graded employees. Prepare and submit organization level recurring or one time reports in a timely manner. Prepare for internal and external reviews. including providing reports and information. Utilize Microsoft office and other computer programs to perform formal analysis of program processes relating to performance improvement, quality improvement indicators, establish thresholds, search databases, and calculate and generate statistics for monthly performance reports. Formulate extracted data into different database programs such as Excel, Access, or SQL and to prepare analysis in the form of reports for management. Administrator of a time management system. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Mgmt & Prog Ast(Analysis)/PD021557 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/29/2023. 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 by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience utilizing regulations, operating procedures and computer programs to gather information to conduct analysis clerical work processes. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementComputer SkillsManages and Organizes Information 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The 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 https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Long Beach VA Medical Center 5901 East Seventh Street Long Beach, CA 90822 US
• Name: Cara Dover
• Phone: 720-322-3577
• Email: [email protected]