The Management Analyst has professional, administrative, managerial, and financial responsibilities. The Management Analyst position is in San Antonio, Texas at the Department of Veteran's Affairs Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital Division (ALMD) in the Patient Care Services Department - Nursing Service. The extreme complexity of the position requires a Management Analyst who can coordinate, gather, and analyze information and author documents in support of the Nursing Service.

Duties

Major Duties: Provides support to Nursing Service Staff by monitoring projects and program information, utilizing statistical data to formulate reports including charts, reports, and graphs. Identify and recommend ways of eliminating, combining, simplifying or improving operations for STVHCS Nursing Programs. The incumbent performs management and program analysis with objective information for making decisions for productivity and efficiency of Nursing Services and its programs. Generate and manage data reports of all nurse driven clinics, outpatient/inpatient services, and other clinics to assess turnovers, appointments, and effectiveness of outcomes. Perform complex assignments within designated suspense periods, various quantitative and qualitative reports, budget reports, labor reports and communicate results. Monitors statuses of service projects utilizing software and recommends reallocation of resources as needed. Responsible for the coordination, development and submission of all required reports and memos and tracking responses. Utilizes software to provide general administrative functions when creating memos, reviewing calendars, compiling data, and reporting analyzed results. Serves as a primary point of contact for non-clinical discrepancies to ensure minimal interruptions to patient care. Develops requests for new equipment, equipment turn-ins, replacements, reports of surveys, loans, trials, and testing. Maintains a record filing system to ensure that all Nursing Service files and records are kept up-to-date and maintained in accordance with records control scheduled. Incumbent will possess the knowledge of record tracking procedures to request, recharge, and retrieve medical records. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Management & Program Analyst/PD00331A 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, 10/11/2023. 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: 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. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: applying analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider, and resolve issues of a procedural or factual nature in the Service Operations (e.g., Equipment repair or servicing, Safety concerns, workflow, or working conditions); using data gathering methods, such as collecting various types of information from an array of computer programs, reports, and documents (Data mining and collection from VA reporting sites such as VSSC/Pyramid Analytics) to illustrate findings; researching and assembling data to evaluate the utilization and management of resources to define and provide advice to assistance on management and fiscal problems.. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have Masters or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level education leading to such a degree OR a related LL.B or J.D. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond as described above (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED). You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical Thinking Database Administration Customer Service Communications 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 sedentary. Some work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds. 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.

NOTE: If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.

Contacts

• Address Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital 7400 Merton Minter Boulevard San Antonio, TX 78229 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]