Program Analyst

The Telehealth Program Analyst position is required to provide the critical technical and program support necessary to sustain Telehealth and Connected Care operations throughout Southern Arizona VA Health Care System using state-of-the-art, clinical technologies and partnerships which provide access to care to Veterans.

**Qualifications:**
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/13/2026. 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-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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Develop, recommend and submit changes for improved workload distribution, workflow; research, compile, assimilate and prepare confidential or sensitive documents; extract information from data systems and/or develop database applications, surveys or other tools to collect required information and update reports; develop training materials or other tools to assist management and leadership in utilizing data and reports; assist with data reporting and database applications development. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have . Master's degree or equivalent or LL. Or J.D. or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. OR, Combination: ???????Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond the bachelors degree education may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified and may be computed by first determining your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining your education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify for that grade level. Only graduate education beyond a bachelor's degree will qualify toward GS-9. Example: An applicant has 6 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-7 and 1 year of graduate level education. The applicant meets 50 percent of the required experience but none of the required education, since he or she does not have any graduate study beyond that which is required for GS-7. Therefore, the applicant meets only 50 percent of the total requirement and is not qualified for the position. (The applicant's first year of graduate study is not qualifying for GS-9. 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/.