Program Analyst

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:11/08/2024. 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50’s and/or General Adjustment SF-50’s as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is defined as experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service related to the support of federal procurement and its relationship within acquisition systems. In federal procurement support activities include acquisition and procurement data calls, data analysis, data mining, systems support and technical problem solving across a myriad of acquisition systems. Illustrative experience includes technical competence in general aspects of contracting so as to identify the relation to utilizing systems to properly obligate funds. Specialized experience also includes user and administrative experience in Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS), Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) and the procurement and financial modules of the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (IFAMS) suites. The incumbent must demonstrate independent technical credibility to be able to work across the Administration and the Agency and possess interpersonal skills to relay the Administration’s position in enterprise-wide decisions within acquisition and financial systems to ensure mission can be met. 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: Position is sedentary. 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/.
The incumbent serves as a Management and Program Analyst in the Acquisition Directorate, Office of Mission Support (OMS), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). The incumbent supports the mission of the Directorate, reports to the Compliance Team Supervisor and serves as a key team member of the Compliance Team. The incumbent is an integral part of a multidisciplinary team with expertise in various methodological and content areas which include acquisition, finance, and administration.