Summary

The incumbent is responsible in the aggregate for successful data management practices and execution, data integrity, and data analysis supporting Program stakeholders, including internal and external, private and public, while ensuring accuracy, quality and timeliness of end-products.

Duties

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Specific duties include:

• Provides direction and input into data-informed policy analysis and procedures; regulatory or legislative recommendations or changes pertaining to systems development, improvement, and deployment.
• The Chief, BIDS, expends considerable effort planning, prioritizing, scheduling, assigning, and evaluating work based on its specific technical requirements, and matching that with appropriately skilled experience subordinates, for short-term activities, longer-term initiatives, and for ongoing production.
• The incumbent reviews and advises on progress through analysis, observation, and positive interaction articulating both successes and areas for further focus.
• Establishes and sustains cooperative relationships with other resources in VBA and VA. Displays leadership skills in leading SAFe Agile teams executing software development through articulation and direction of strategic initiatives, LGY Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and special projects. Engages stakeholders throughout the development process. Provides organization expertise in developing measurable objectives and supporting various teams.
• Coaches, counsels, provides feedback on the work to maintain positive communication, engagement, and transparency with staff individually and collectively. The incumbent's communication efforts focus both on performance and behavior.
• Provides proactive, well-planned communications of all types and media to program participants and LGY leadership, including complete and accurate end products, recommendations regarding LGY business needs, self-serve program analytics capabilities and program analysis are provided to program participants, field stations, VACO staff, and others.
• Advises project and other stakeholders, including the Agile Management Office on status, directly and through Planview.
• Ensures that teams effectively utilize a SAFe Agile lean environment for software development, including the application of core SAFe competencies throughout any effort, to the extent that Data team members sit on ART teams.
• Directly responsible for interpreting the VA/VBA/LGY All Employee Survey (AES) as it pertains to the PMDI/Data team and its members. The Chief takes affirmative actions to cause improvements using realistic action plans to improve perceptions of employee experience as measured by, for example, future year AES scoring.
• Utilizes analytical skill, sound judgment, and the capability to understand, report, and address the implications and ramifications of program/project management, controls, and procedures applicable to the program.
• Establishes and governs an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of analytics-based capabilities.

Promotion Potential: Full performance level is GS-14.

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday 06:00am - 06:00pm

Compressed/Flexible: Available

Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Management & Program Analyst; GS-0343-14 PD39792-0

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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.Additional Conditions of Employment are as follows:

• 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 or trial period
• Selectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
• 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 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.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:09/08/2026.

TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: As a current Federal, GS employee you must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

• For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level.
• If you are a current VBA employee requesting reassignment or change to lower grade via this vacancy announcement, you must currently hold the GS- 14 or higher.

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.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

GS-14 Grade Level:

Specialized Experience: It is defined as experience possessing an expert knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of concepts, approaches, practices, regulations, policies, precedents, and analytical, and procedures related to VA guidelines and regulations. Examples of this include but not limited to:

• Knowledge of agency and nationwide home loan program goals, policies, and administrative laws.
• Knowledge of organizational protocols and practices, to oversee, assess and examine data related matters with respect to content, and compliance to federal standards and regulations.
• Independently and proactively monitors data and applications for indications of fraud, waste or abuse, including but not limited to security and data breaches.

Education Substitution: There is no Educational Substitution for this grade level.

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 mostly sedentary; however, there may be some walking, standing, and carrying of light items such as papers, books, folders, and files.

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

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR [redacted](u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/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 your current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

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

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and appropriate supporting documentation for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualifications of the position, after notification of the adjudication of your request, you will receive an email invitation to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudication decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement.

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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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