This position is in the Benefit Evidence and Evaluation Strategy (BEES) team within Office of Strategic Support and Initiatives (OSSI), Office of the Under Secretary for Benefits (OUSB), Veterans Benefits Administration. BEES leads VBA's evidence and evaluation strategy portfolio, integration project team support, data-driven analyses, and collaboration with evidence partners including the Veterans Health Administration, Office of Management and Budget and VA Office of Enterprise Integration.

Duties

Specific duties include: - The incumbent supports the VBA Senior Leadership, the VBA Evaluation Officer (EO) and their designee(s), in fulfillment of their responsibilities under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 to include planning and evaluation activities to include strategic, long-range, short, or multi-year plans that are the products of subordinate organizational projects/programs. - Facilitates the development of recommendations for program officials and supervisors and strives to have viable recommendations accepted by operating components. Work products are used to carry out, administer or advise on work connected to proposals, contracts, and can include maintaining control on sensitive and confidential issues labor relation issues requiring follow-up. - Recommend areas and methods by which the efficiency of operation can be improved. Recommendations include the development of new or modified work methods, procedural changes, systems variations, and acceptance of new technology developments. Formulates and recommends instructions, directives, guidelines, policies, plans or procedures to administer or carry out functions. - May serve as Contracting Officer's Representative and/or Project/Program Manager, responsible for overseeing, directing, and managing the evaluation efforts of others, including other Federal staff and/or external, third-party contractors. - Analyzes and evaluates both long and short-range research and analyzes program activities. Conducts investigations of evidence involved in complex or special interest cases and coordinates with other organizations, as needed, to appropriately address and resolve the issue. - Ability to create data files in statistical software, data entry, and execution of relevant statistical functions, execution of statistical analyses and interpretation and analysis of data. Uses varied state-of-the-art qualitative and mixed methods combined with the use of statistical software, including for example R, Stata, and Python. - Develops and adheres to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in accordance with OMB policies for learning agendas and evaluation plans to complete reviews, analysis, training, procedural updates, and meeting scheduling for areas of responsibility. - Participates in the preparation and presentation of briefings to leaders regarding program/study results in support of the Agency and the Administration Evaluation Officers. - Leads discussions, meetings, and conferences with agency administrators, senior subject matter experts, and other federal agency officials to secure and provide information on evaluation reports, findings, and outcomes to investigate facts; present conclusions, recommendations, and alternatives; obtains concurrence; develops alternate courses of actions consistent with the Evidence-Based Policy Making Act and works collaboratively with others to resolves problems. - Provides program management support to the EO, and their designee(s) regarding all deliverables, assignments, projects, and efforts. Presents findings about evidence-building use, and program evaluations to VA leaders and external audiences through written and verbal presentations. Provides program management support to members of the VA Evidence-Based Policy Council, VA Evidence-Based Investment Review Council, Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Working Group (FEBPWG) and other VA-wide governance bodies related to use of evaluation and evidence in fulfillment of their responsibilities. Promotion Potential: None Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday 8am - 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: At the discretion of agency Telework: Yes Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Management Analyst; 41511-A 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:12/14/2023. 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-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-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-12). Candidates must show demonstrated experience and comprehensive knowledge recommending solutions for project and program offices utilizing quantitative and qualitative evidence based in analysis and evaluation, designing and leading evaluation and study projects. Examples include, but are not limited to: Experience in supporting administration and/or agency Senior Leadership in fulfillment of their responsibilities under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 to include planning and evaluation activities to include strategic, long-range, short or multi-year plans that are the products of subordinate organizational projects/programs. Development of dashboards and/or reporting platforms highlighting program objectives and units of measure for determining when objectives have been met through analysis of legislative requirements, existing resources, and competing interests. Effectively executing studies and/or evaluations through various execution methodologies based on cost, schedule, scope and schedule through multiple vehicle. types including interagency agreements, contracts with external businesses, tasks through Fully Funded Research and Development contracts and internally resourced projects. Creation and maintenance of data files in statistical software, data entry, and execution of relevant statistical functions, execution of statistical analyses and interpretation and analysis of data using statistical software, including for example R, Stata and Python. 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 sedentary. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with attending meetings and conferences. Work may require carrying light items such as papers, books, or small parts. The work does not require any special physical effort. 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

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

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