Program Analyst

The incumbent serves as the Program Analyst within the Health Administration Service (HAS at the Richard L. Roudebush V AMC in Indianapolis, IN - a Level lA Complexity Facility. The incumbent will have responsibility for coordinating administrative functions for support staff in various clinics and clinical support areas.

**Qualifications:**
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement: Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS 7 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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. 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. Qualifications requirements for GS 9: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to has knowledge of, and skill in applying, standardized principles, practices, and procedures of clinic profile management, and program management. Comprehensive working knowledge of applicable public laws VA regulations and national, VISN and facility directives, legal decisions and state laws dealing with care, policies, procedures, and precedents regarding scheduling, clinic profiles, ambulatory data capture, workload, billing, DSS(MCA) identifiers and ACA principles. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have completed a Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education or a J.D., related to the work of the position. One year of graduate education is 18 semester hours or the number determined by the school attended to represent one year of full-time study. (Transcripts must be submitted). OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond the first year of graduate level education. (Transcripts must be submitted). Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.