This position is located in the Veteran Benefits Administration (VBA) Office of Performance Analysis and Integrity (PA&I), organizationally aligned under the VBA Chief of Staff. The Evaluation Analysis team's mission is to elevate VBA's evidence- based decision-making via analytical insights, capacity building, transparency, collaboration, and best practices. To learn more about the type of work that the PA&I Evaluation Analysis team does, please visit https://www.evaluation.gov/.

Duties

Specific duties include: Lead and participate in stakeholder information needs sessions and meet those needs via business requirements provided by the Evaluation Analysis Assistant Director or senior Evaluation Analysis staff. Apply and teach other Evaluation Analysis team members about data engineering concepts and practices, to include SQL fundamentals, database design, relational models, and optimization techniques. Lead analyses that require a variety of data sources to provide data-driven insights to the organization to evaluate the effectiveness of programs, policies, and initiatives. As a recognized expert in data analysis and interpretation, incumbent provides advice, technical problem resolution, and mentoring to GS-13, Program and Operations Research Analysts. Writes, debugs, and maintains SQL programs and related documentation. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Available. Telework: Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Sr Program Analyst; 30178A 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
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:11/07/2024. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees, former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, or a current federal employee applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment must meet time in grade requirements. 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. NOTE: This does not apply to Non-Federal Applicants, or applicants applying for consideration under Non-Competitive Authority (i.e.... "30% or more Disability", VRA, and/or Schedule A). To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: At least one year designing, developing, and implementing complex PL*SQL or SQL in a business environment. Also, strong soft skills such as communication, problem-solving and analytic abilities are required. They should possess excellent customer interfacing skills so as to elicit/clarify technical requirements needed to develop needed business reports based on the existing application data architecture. Communication skills include being able to provide clearly written status updates on work assignments in progress. 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, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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 educational substitute at the GS-14 grade level.

Contacts

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