The incumbent serves as a Lead Program Analyst (Health Informatics) located at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center, in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The primary purpose of the position is to lead Program Analyst (Informatics) positions to improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care by integrating clinical and information processes necessary to achieve successful adoption and application of new technologies throughout the VHA.

Duties

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Serves as team leader over a group of Program Analyst (Informatics) positions. Responsible for assigning, monitoring, and reviewing the work performed by subordinate team members. Ensures that the organization's mission and vision are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's goals, work plans, and work products. Identifies, distributes, and balances workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization and adjusting to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks. Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of technical skills and team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects. Reports to the supervisor periodically on team's work accomplishments, training needs and work processes. Assists in the management, assessment, design, integration, modification, maintenance, and analysis of programs and processes related to the field of health informatics. Serve as liaison between clinical staff and technical staff and manage all administrative aspects of their programs and projects. Develops targeted, mission-aligned, program goals and objectives that are clearly defined, specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. Aids in the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and organizational tools to ensure program success. Cultivates and maintains effective relationships with key partners and stakeholders that impact informatics from the central office level, through the facility level. Cultivates a healthy working relationship between the Offices of Information and Technology (OIT) and Health Informatics, allowing for routine dialog to enable the sustainment and optimization of our health information technology (IT) solutions and workflows, for the benefit of all staff and Veterans. Cultivates a healthy collaboration between enterprise and facility level clinical / biomedical engineering staff and health informatics, ensuring that patient care technology is effectively and efficiently integrated into the clinical process. Effectively aids in the creation, integration, dissemination, and management of data for all enterprise applications, processes and entities requiring timely and accurate data delivery. Applies developed data pipelines and reporting systems consisting of relevant and timely measures to quantify deficiencies and visualize improvements over time. Enables healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the electronic health record (EHR) to deliver quality care by developing, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools and access to them. Assist in the identification and documentation of end-user requirements and budget for clinical software solutions; conducts market research and evaluates candidate products; develops and executes implementation plans and evaluates implementation results. Ensures clinical input in the development and management of the (VHA) business architecture, which structures and communicates the VHA healthcare business, and includes descriptions of business behaviors, functionality, processes, and the flow of information that is required to achieve VHA's mission. Ensures the VHA EHR operates in a way that improves patient care, ensures patient safety, and meets the needs of providers. Assists in the evaluation, documentation, prioritization, and recognition of requirements for the improvement of the EHR and other systems in collaboration with the end-user. Uses communication, education, and leadership to support comprehension of and adaptation to organizational updates. Provides formal and informal education and in-services to facility staff as required to facilitate program success. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Ad-Hoc Remote: Not available Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: 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, June 10, 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 by 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. Specialized Experience Requirements for Lead Program Analyst GS-13:Applicants must have at least (1) one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-12) in Federal service that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience includes: Comprehensive knowledge and skill in applying a wide range of advanced practices, theories, and emerging information in health care delivery, health informatics (HI) and applications. Knowledge in the use of clinical software packages. Experienced knowledge of VHA operations, national databases architecture and file structure, analytical techniques, and clinical applications development techniques; in order to be able to provide knowledgeable and professional HI consulting services and to develop and deliver appropriate HI educational and training programs to all levels of employees, internal and external to the VA thorough in-depth knowledge of the clinical environment, including practices, procedures, policies, strengths, and weaknesses to effectively use data to track and manage patient care. Thorough and current knowledge of emerging and/or state of the art technology, as well as seasoned knowledge of VA protocol, regulations, programs, and processes related to informatics, to propose and support major administrative and clinical policies and directives, instruct practitioners on the changes and application of new policies and directives, and to provide leadership in one or more local or national informatics committees/teams. Preferred Experience: Demonstrated experience building and sustaining analytics platforms. Intermediate or advanced knowledge, skills and experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Power BI, SharePoint, Visio and Teams. Knowledge, skills, and experience with any/all of the following platforms: CRM, PCAS, Structured Query Language (SQL), Pyramid, LEAF, Corporate Data Warehouse. 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 employees may carry light items such as books, instruments, laptops, and other similar materials. 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 Cincinnati VA Medical Center 3200 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45220 US
• Name: Heather Bishop
• Email: [email protected]