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Summary
This position is in the Business Planning Office at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital. The primary responsibility of the Management Analyst - VERA Coordinator is to possess in-depth knowledge of the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program and the Medical Center Allocation System (MCAS), and to understand how station-level inputs impact the outcomes from these systems, which drive the facility's annual budget allocation.
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The Management Analyst (VERA Coordinator) plays a critical role in safeguarding workload capture and VERA reimbursement throughout the facility's transition to the Federal Electronic Health Record (FEHR), partnering across clinical and administrative services to protect the accuracy and completeness of the data that flows into VERA before, during, and after go-live.
The Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program and the Medical Center Allocation System (MCAS) are the primary means of funding allocation to VA Medical Centers. The incumbent is responsible for leading the hospital's efforts to accurately capture workload and ensure the facility receives optimum credit for the work performed. These activities have a direct impact on the hospital's annual budget allocation and are critical to the long-term success of the facility. The incumbent also plays a key role in protecting workload capture and VERA reimbursement through the facility's transition to the Federal Electronic Health Record (FEHR).
Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the VERA program and as the primary advisor to the Associate Director and Business Planning Office Chief for matters involving unique patient counts, workload capture, and VERA cost elements.
• Represent the hospital on the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) VERA Committee.
• Brief hospital executives and managers on a routine basis, and report to the VISN VERA lead on program results, actions, and outcomes.
• Provide VERA education to ensure the facility maintains a properly trained, effective, and collaborative VERA Committee.
• Analyze management techniques, processes, and approaches to improve organizational effectiveness.
• Provide position management advice and recommendations, including guidance on the distribution of workload across positions and organizations, and on the skill mix or categories of employees needed to maximize VERA reimbursement and workload capture.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and analyses drawn from multiple VA data systems to inform leadership decisions related to workload, revenue, and resource allocation.
• Serve as a liaison between clinical services, Health Information Management, Compliance, and Fiscal to identify and resolve documentation, coding, and data integrity issues that affect VERA reimbursement.
• Support the facility's FEHR deployment by monitoring workload capture, encounter data, patient classification, and cost element flows before, during, and after go-live to identify and quickly resolve gaps that could reduce VERA reimbursement.
• Partner with Health Information Management, Compliance, Fiscal, and clinical informatics to validate that coding, patient classification logic, and workload elements map correctly from legacy systems into FEHR and downstream into VERA, the Allocation Resource Center (ARC), the VHA Support Service Center (VSSC), and the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW).
• Re-baseline VERA modeling and forecasting following FEHR go-live to distinguish true workload changes from transition-related data artifacts, and brief leadership and committees on FEHR-related VERA impacts and mitigation actions.

The incumbent will serve in a developmental capacity at the GS-11 level. Key functions will be similar to those described at the full performance level of the target position; however, during the developmental assignment, the full performance range and level of selected functions will not be completely delegated to the employee until proper orientation and training have been completed and the incumbent has demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to accomplish the work at the full performance level.
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm M-F
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Management Analyst (VERA Coordinator)/PD221750
Requirements
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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
• 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 (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-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.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial 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.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/24/2026.
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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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:
GS-11 Level
Specialized Experience: You must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-09) in Federal service. This experience must have equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
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Education: You may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have: 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate, education leading to such a degree, or an LL.M. (if related)
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Combination: An equivalent combination of education and experience is qualifying at this grade level
GS-12 Level
Specialized Experience: You must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-11) in Federal service. This experience must have equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience would include communication and interpersonal relations, the ability to appropriately and courteously relate to internal and external customers, maintenance of confidentiality and patient/employee information, knowledge of the medical center performance improvement program, ability to work and function in the medical center in a safe manner, including infection control and the correct operation of equipment.
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/.
Education
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Additional information
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
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. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation for Online Assessments.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced 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 current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
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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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