Management & Program Analyst

This Management & Program Analyst position is with Veterans Health Administration (Department of Veterans Affairs) in Phoenix, AZ. The Management and Program Analyst serves as an expert in applied data science, who provides analytical support for VHA leaders and field managers. The incumbent works as a integral member of the Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking (CART), a division under the office of Analytics and Performance Integration (API). Key duties: • Collaborates in development of standardized data and code documentation in GitHub or equivalent project tracking tool. Maintains official description of the data and data formation. Utilizes Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft Power Platform, and DevOps processes to build, automate, and maintain data-driven systems supporting national healthcare reporting. Maintain Power Pages, Power Apps, and Power Automate resources to provide for user-facing feedback and support during business hours with minimal downtime. Ensures the accuracy of information delivered for assigned program areas. This includes, but is not limited to, technical delivery, program ownership, accountability, and long-range strategic planning. Troubleshoots and resolves data quality, integration, and reporting issues through iterative Quality Assurance (QA) review of own work and peer work products. Responds to end-user feedback and monitors user satisfaction to identify system/data malfunctions, driving enhancements and resolving reported issues. Analyzes and synthesizes data from diverse, unstructured, and highly variable big data sources, applying data modeling, mining, and warehousing techniques. Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm Telework: This position may be authorized for ad hoc telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Ad hoc is defined as occasional, non-recurring telework. Virtual: This position may be authorized for Virtual Work. Virtual Work eligibility is for current VA Employees that are already subject to the return to in-person work mandate in their current position. Applicants without an existing assigned VA Staff Office must be located within 50 miles of a VA-owned or leased space. Return to Office (RTO): RTO mandates are in effect and selectees will be required to report to in-person work unless they are approved for an exception or an exemption. Any approval for an RTO exception, exemption, or extension will happen after a tentative job offer, but before a final job offer. This is not a remote position. Position Description/PD#: Management & Program Analyst/PD66390A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/23/2026. 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-1. 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. This position requires a Special Placement Factor (SPF). Candidates must possess experience at least at the next lower grade level to be eligible for consideration. The required experience must be clearly documented in your resume. Failure to explicitly demonstrate this experience may result in disqualification from further consideration. Special Placement Factor includes: Demonstrated experience with designing, publishing, and maintaining Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power Pages), using data retrieved from SQL databases or other systems. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: 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: Demonstrates working knowledge of VA data sources and knowledge of the CDW environment. Conducts data management, including cleaning data and preparing data files for analysis. Performs data curation activities including data collection, transmission, encryption, and security in accordance with PHI/PII protection standards and VA data security policy. Analyzes and synthesizes data from diverse, unstructured, and highly variable big data sources, applying data modeling, mining, and warehousing techniques. Advanced skill and experience planning and organizing diverse and multi-disciplinary teams and negotiating effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations where the proposals involve substantial agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures. Demonstrable skill in change management, stakeholder management and customer service. Collaborated on the development and maintenance of standardized data and code documentation in GitHub or equivalent project-tracking tools, including maintaining official data descriptions and documenting data-formation processes. 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/. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.