Summary

This position serves as a Supervisory Data Analyst in the National Center for Warrior Independence (NCWI) at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The incumbent provides technical and administrative supervision to a unit of Management and Program Analyst, and multiple administrative support staff.

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Key job duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Incumbent oversees the daily operation of the unit, ensures that agency policies and priorities are being followed; develops performance standards; and evaluates work performance of all subordinates assigned.
• Serve as the primary advisor and technical consultant for the Chief/Director of the National Center for Warrior Independence (NWCI) on all matters related to Data Science and future technologies for the support services provided.
• Serves as an authoritative technical expert and consultant to NCWI group leaders on data management, data mining, and data representation techniques that inform the monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of programs.
• Ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of healthcare management.
• Design, implement, and maintain database applications, dashboards, data reporting systems, data sets, and databases that synthesize clinical and administrative data from multiple sources into meaningful and useful information and knowledge for business analysis
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• Performs regular analytical reviews of facility data. Identifies operational, clinical, and financial scenarios for analysis and recommends ways to optimize efficiency, cost management, resource utilization, and risk reduction.
• Provide expert analysis of clinical or administrative data highlighting patient care opportunities and evaluating facility performance in the areas of clinical care, patient satisfaction, access, productivity, consult management, SAIL, utilization management, efficiency, provider peer review, among others.
• Develops logic and writes code to extract data from CDW, VistA and other local or national databases.
• Identify trends and analyzes VA Greater Los Angeles' homeless program data in the context of VISN and national data and initiatives to ensure the NCWI is meeting and exceeding its goals and to assist NCWI leaders in making data-driven decisions that maximize efficiency and utilization.
• Participates in defining strategic goals, developing, and implementing administrative and clinic programs, and educating staff regarding processes related to data management, research, assisting in measurement of those goals, and contributing to the success of those projects.
• Demonstrates skill in effective written and oral communication, to include expertise in data visualization and expert knowledge of a broad range of computer-based programs for communication, report generation, and presentations.
• Plan work and major projects that are to be accomplished by subordinates, will set, and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare timeframes for completion of work.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Various tours of duty based on the needs of the service.

Compressed/Flexible:May be available based on the needs of the service.

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Management and Program Analyst (Data Science)/PD150160

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified candidates.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Physical Requirements: The work is mostly sedentary. However, the nature of the work often requires the incumbent to work long hours to meet project completion and to devise solutions to unexpected, serious problems. The incumbent is subject to stress due to extended periods of intense mental concentration and the frequent need for expeditious response to critical situations.

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/25/2026.

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.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

• GS-13 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 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; experienced knowledge and use of national database architecture and file structure, analytical techniques, and clinical applications development techniques.

There is no educational substitution for the GS-12 level.

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.

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.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Additional information

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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