Program Analyst serves within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Anesthesia Service, and is responsible for the data collection, data extraction, data trends, and studies as it relates to the efficiency and effectives of anesthesia operational program activities.

Duties

Primary analyst and advisor to management on the evaluation of the effectiveness of operating room and non-operating room Anesthesia services, Pain Management clinics, Critical Care, Anesthesia Perioperative Medicine, Preoperative clinic, and Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOCs) programs and operations. Ensures Anesthesiology Service and staff are educated and accountable for data management. Responsible for coordinating and supporting mechanisms for successful data entry designed to ensure accurate and consistent data entered into a Medical Center database. Coordinates integrating and analyzing of data from various sources that impact patient care by optimizing access and tracking quality and assisting with methodology data acquisition for research projects. Provides vision and uses creativity, influence, and technical ability to advise, create, and implement monitors in measuring all data input. Analyze, interpret, and implement regulations accurately to reflect current operating procedures. Analyzes situations to determine what decisions can be made or if advice of a higher authority is needed on special problems that may involve public relations. Performs research and coordinates with anesthesia leader to provide recommendations for improvement to senior leadership, clinical, and business plans for anesthesia service. Leads and/or participates in collaborative workgroups, conference calls, special projects, and investigations that have high priority for upper management. Coordinates the collection of data concerning patient care activities; makes computations as required and reports weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually to management. Ability to have good understanding of preparing letters, memorandums, and other written communication. Helps develop effective, efficient processes for collecting and maintaining workload management to present research and analysis findings to diverse audiences. Conduct meetings with staff and management. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst/PD708820 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. 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, 09/05/2023. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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: GS-9 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-07) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Your experience must have equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience includes: Working with clinical software packages. Possessing knowledge of anesthesia operations. Working with data analysis and reporting to use data to track and manage patient care. Collecting data in order to retrieve, analyze, summarize, and present information effectively. Creating and recommending new operations strategies based on the findings of their analyses and identify how strategies may impact long-term growth. Communicating both orally and in a variety of written documents. OR GS-9 Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed two (2) years of progressively higher-level graduate education or master's or equivalent graduate degree or LL.B. or J.D., in a related field of the position to be filled. (Transcript Required) OR GS-9 Combination: Applicants may also combine education and specialized experience to qualify at the GS-9 level. For example, an applicant that has six (6) months of creditable specialized experience (50% of specialized experience required) and 1-1/2 full years of successfully completed of progressively higher-level graduate education or masters or equivalent graduate degree or LL. B or J.D. in a related field of the position (1-1/2 years of the required 2 years of graduate level education would count towards 50% of the required education for the GS-9 level) would qualify for this position. Transcripts must be submitted with your application. Education cannot be credited without documentation and your experience must be fully documented on your resume. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationsCritical ThinkingTechnical Competence 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 employee does sedentary work, such as sitting comfortably. There may be some walking, standing, bending, or carrying of light items. No special physical effort or ability is required to perform the work. 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

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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 Tennessee Valley HCS - Nashville 1310 24th Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212 US
• Name: Abigail Haley
• Email: [email protected]