Join our innovative team as a Program Analyst Lead and be at the forefront of data-driven decision-making. In this exciting role, you'll leverage your expertise to build cutting-edge predictive analytics and AI solutions. As a key player, you'll have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges, shape the future of our data science initiatives, and make a significant impact in our organization. Applicants must be able to demonstrate expert knowledge in SQL, statistics, and machine learning.

Duties

The Program Analyst Lead is responsible for providing leadership in the development and use of informatics, analytics, and technology to support all clinical domains. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the oversight of the Advanced Analytics section through informatics and analytics practice, establishing effective clinical and administrative systems, designing useful decision support systems, managing, and delivering educational experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting healthcare research. The volume and complexity of responsibilities are significant and constantly evolving. The Program Analyst Lead will foster leadership and professionalism by building, supporting, and creating alignments for informatics and analytics best practices, and lead health informatics and analytical initiatives and innovation through collaboration and stakeholder engagement. The Program Analyst Lead will champion the adoption of business intelligence technology, facilitate workflow design, and participate in the procurement, customization, configuration, implementation, management, evaluation, and optimization of all clinical information systems as appropriate. The Program Analyst Lead will assist in the development of strategic plans for clinical and administrative information systems and will foster relationships with local staff as well as partnerships with national professionals. The Program Analyst Lead will collaborate across service lines with other clinicians and managers regarding data, analytics, healthcare, clinical decision support, human factors, human computer interaction and usability, artificial intelligence, standards, a learning health system, evidence-based practice, and effective communication. At a minimum, the Program Analyst Lead will perform the following eight core informatics and analytics functions; application support, resource allocation, business architecture management, enterprise data management, content management, system optimization, change management, requirements management, and partnership management. -Investigates and analyzes potential or realized adverse operations, trends or conditions and initiates/recommends corrective action and follow-through because of electronic health record conversion. -Provides in-depth analyses, best practice models and creative quality program techniques for consideration in project development. -Develops innovative strategies and recommendations for initiating and establishing goals, timetables, and procedures to ensure successful completion of deadlines. -Monitors compliance with project management standards, policies, procedures, and templates via project audits. -Exercises expertise in clinical operations, develops and/or oversees the development of information related to patient care, such as patient registries to allow the Clinical Team to track management of patient illnesses; and develops performance management tracking tools. -Actively participates in the development of clinical decision support systems with, for example, the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee; the Medical Records Committee; the Clinical Executive Board; program development vendors using Commercial Off the Shelf Software (COTS) and decision support systems; clinical informatics oversight committees; Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee; others as may be decided locally. -Maintains active communication with all VISN 12 staff, affiliated partners. -As the Health Informatics expert, provides relevant clinical and/or administrative data to identify, quantify, and resolve organizational problems. -Provides for the maintenance and updating of site parameters and site-specific files to ensure proper functioning of complex, interrelated and interdependent software applications. -Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday (7:30AM - 4:00PM) CST THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION Position Description/PD#: Lead Program Analyst (Informatics)/PD99394S Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/17/2025. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education s described below: GS-13 Grade Requirements: 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. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: improve patient care and patient safety, develops and manages business architecture, improve quality data, evaluates, documents, analyzes, prioritizes, recognizes requirements for the improvement, participate in the procurement, customization, configuration, implementation, management, evaluation and optimization of all clinical information systems. Specialized Experience also includes electronic health record needs and studies. Preferred Experience: Knowledge of quality data, SQL, statistical analysis, Python and machine learning. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:Administration and ManagementEducation and TrainingHealth InformaticsTechnology Management 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 position is largely sedentary but can require occasional travel and teaching situations. There are no special physical requirements for doing this work. 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 Edward Hines Junior Hospital 5000 South 5th Avenue Hines, IL 60141 US
• Name: Torenzo Davis
• Phone: 708-940-1828
• Email: [email protected]