The Management & Program Analyst position is located in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Office of Mission Support (OMS). The incumbent serves as serves as a liaison for the Administration Director by facilitating meetings, conferences, and events.

Duties

The incumbent serves as a liaison for the Administration Director by facilitating meetings, conferences, and events. Coordinates Administration program goals and initiatives with internal VA and VBA stakeholders, private interest groups, non-profit organizations, and other federal, state, local agencies. The incumbent collaborates with these organizations and individuals to ensure effective inter-agency coordination as well as to build strong and effective internal collaborative efforts and inter-agency partnerships. Participates in senior-level management meetings to help in the development and improvement of policy and program initiatives, as well as provide recommendations and inform the Director of any potential problem areas requiring their attention. Makes every effort to resolve programmatic or problematic issues. Uses professional discretion, judgment, confidentiality, and sensitivity to controversial matters and information privy to management and senior leaderships. With few exceptions, assignments are independently planned, organized, and completed timely. Reviews, analyzes, develops, and/or updates VA and VBA policy, guidance, doctrine, goals, and objectives to meet program requirements. Responsible for maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of changes to policies and procedures and ensuring that the Director is kept abreast of such changes and their potential impact to the Administration Directorate. Works with the Director and Administration leadership to prepare technical documents, reports, and action plans to develop long and short-term organizational plans and goals. Directs the preparation and ensures completion of these written products on behalf of the Director of Administration. Provides administrative management for the organization such as maintaining hard and soft file systems, office travel, budgets, and purchase card procedures. Researches, analyzes, evaluates, and reports on system-generated data, narrative information, and statistical data. Develops written input for briefings, data-calls, meetings, charts, and the like. The incumbent is expected to use the full range of automated technology tools available in the organization, including those available from the MS Office Suite and similar information technology tools. Effectively manages and coordinates special projects and/or initiatives within Administration. Initiates, plans, executes, and manages projects in such areas as operational and organizational performance. Builds strong and productive relationships with other VA/VBA Central Office entities to reach project objectives and buy-in from different business lines. Communicate effectively orally and in writing. Prepare clear, detailed, thorough, concise reports, and briefing materials to senior management on the project and/or program. Protects printed and electronic files containing sensitive data in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 and other applicable laws, federal regulations, VA statutes and policy, and VBA policy. Protects the data from unauthorized release or from loss, alteration, or unauthorized deletion. Promotion Potential: GS-13 Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible: At discretion of Agency. Telework: Yes; Available at discretion of Agency. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Management & Program Analyst; #41627-0 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: 01/23/2024. 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. 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: To qualify for the grade level GS-13: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-12) or a comparable pay band in federal or other service that demonstrates the particular competencies necessary to perform the work of this position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization to include all: Experience writing proposals, reports, memorandums, training materials, and status briefings. Experience with workload management for leading project teams, project tracking/reporting, and project execution/close-out builds strong work relations and partnerships for optimal organizational performance. Experience using resource information systems, MS Suite software systems and analytics to provide milestones, testing, charts, graphs, benchmarks, reports, cost analysis, updates, and briefings for successful program and project completion/closure. 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 travel to attend meetings and conferences away from the work site. Work may require carrying light items such as papers, books, or small parts. 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

There is no education requirement or education substitution at the GS-13 grade level.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Yvonda Price
• Phone: 4102304400
• Email: [email protected]