This position is a Supervisory Program Analyst (Informatics) in a multi-service, highly complex, tertiary health care system. Services include acute inpatient, primary and specialty care, inpatient and outpatient mental health, and home care within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health System.

Duties

You will serve as a principal advisor in determining strengths and weaknesses of the health care system and will not only gather and report data but take an active, independent role in owning the improvement processes and creating innovative solutions to close gaps, using agency level tools to inform prioritization and deployment strategies. You will decide on necessary areas of research or analysis required to fulfill projects or activities for the Executive Leadership Team related to Labor Mapping, construction of Relative Value Units (RVUs), Efficiency, Measurement of Outcomes, documentation of clinical services rendered (to include Open Encounters), and other factors that influence facility reimbursement as part of the VERA methodology. You will support the service line and senior management by managing metrics reporting and performing mathematical and statistical modeling to forecast demand for healthcare services. You will provide oversight of the facility performance management program including the VACO and VISN facility reports, facility Executive Career Field (ECF) performance plan, and the nurse informaticist supporting the clinical documentation improvement program. You will develop plans, milestones, and policy for the accomplishment of assigned functions on an immediate and long-range basis. You will evaluate the overall effectiveness of the operation in terms of mission accomplishment, quality and quantity standards met, procedural, policy, and regulatory compliance and technical competence. You will resolve informal complaints and grievances. You will assist employees in improvement of performance and keeps them informed of policies, personnel, and other management programs. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Telework: Not Authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Program Analyst/PD217190 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): 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 within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement, 01/17/2024. 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 within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience include, but are not limited to: Qualifying specialized experience includes determining organizational unit goals and objectives in a constantly changing and developing health care field; independently performing a full range of data analysis, to include collecting, evaluating, and synthesizing of data; preparing briefing documents and making presentations to senior managers; assists with estimating program budgets, reviewing contractor and health informatics work plans, and progress report development; and experienced knowledge and use of national database architecture and file structure, analytical techniques, and clinical applications development techniques. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationPlanning and EvaluatingProblem Solving 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 usually sedentary, but it requires periods of walking, standing, bending, or climbing, and employee may carry light items such as books, instruments, laptops, and other similar materials. The work performed is of precise nature requiring long periods of concentration that is often interrupted. Incumbent is often faced with changing priorities and with meeting deadlines. 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.

Contacts

• Address Boise VA Medical Center 500 West Fort Street Boise, ID 83702 US
• Name: Wayne Newport
• Phone: 541-440-1000 X40116
• Email: [email protected]