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Program Analyst

Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Northern California Health Care System

Summary

The incumbent serves as a Program Analyst - Clinic Profile Manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran Health Administration. The Program Analyst- Clinic Profile Manager position provides a high level of complex and highly skilled support related to provider profile management. They coordinate clinical/provider profiles and scheduling grids, including but not limited to clinic set up and clinic maintenance.

Overview

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Accepting applications
Open & closing dates
05/07/2026 to 05/15/2026
Salary
$93,358 - $121,371 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 11
Locations
1 vacancy in the following locations:
Martinez, CA
Mather AFB, CA
Stockton, CA
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Not required
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determination process
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit status
No
Announcement number
CBSW-12944158-26-SEF
Control number
868314800

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Clarification from the agency

Open to Current, Permanent Department of Veterans Affairs Employees Only

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Duties

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The Clinic Profile Managers provide the vehicles to capture outpatient and related workload for Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA), MCA, and Financial Revenue Management for purposes to schedule patients, and to monitor clinic performance. Clinic profile set up ensures the clinic structure allows the scheduling of patients, direct workload capture, accurate access wait times, direct insurance, and co-pay billing; direct MCA costing, and track facility and provider performance against national, VISN and local measures.
Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

  • Responsible for overall program management for the clinic maintenance process for the Facility and leads the facility's efforts to integrate profile management among healthcare providers, other facility staff, and patients.
  • Interpreting national policies and procedures, developing, and implementing local standards, defining requirements, and providing advice to top management on related issues pertaining to clinic/provider profile management.
  • Responsible for establishing and managing communication plans that identify target audience, appropriate messages, activities, and resources needed for effective communication, and communication plans for change management, incorporating multiple channels to manage expectations and disseminate project progress.
  • Overseeing clinic supervision to staff delegated to services performing clinic profile coordination and management functions.
  • Leading clinic profile team members to ensure analytics, goals, are being met using accurate and timely clinic management tools for their designated services/clinics.
  • Participating in Facility/VISN projects, task forces, and committees to problem-solve, educate, and implement software, data capture and scheduling directive matters.
  • Responsible for oversight of all clinic set up options, clinic profiles and outputs.
  • Assessing the best structure of clinics, based on national mandates and direction, facility needs, provider needs, patient needs, and data desired to be captured.
  • Responsible for ensuring appointment reminder systems are set up accurately for all outpatient clinic locations.
  • Coordinating with informatics for development and management of data systems, assisting and creating the basis for data driven decision-making of clinic profile operations management.
  • Identifying problems and applies analytical techniques, correcting negative trends and provides resolutions to system issues/malfunctions, to include encounter and transmission errors, clinic grids and other issues related to clinic profile management.
  • Developing and implementing an in-depth training program for the Facility to ensure staff are properly educated and accountable for clinical profiles, scheduling, and data management.
  • Coordinating quality assurance efforts through assessments of workflow and procedures to develop means of improving service delivery to customers.
  • Evaluating data capture outputs that includes but not limited to clinic utilization, accurate clinic parameters, program clinic naming standards, etc. to ensure facility compliance with scheduling directives and other national guidance as it relates to Clinic Profile Management.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

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: Monday Through Friday 08:00am-04:30pm
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst/PD99898-S

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
  • You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
  • You may be required to serve a probationary period
  • Subject to background/security investigation
  • Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

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-9. 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

To qualify for the GS-11 Grade:

  • Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-9) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: extensive experience and knowledge conducting studies/audits related to efficiency and effectiveness of program operations dealing with clinic profiles, ambulatory care data capture, VA scheduling packages, 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 a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of this position (Transcripts required) One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be 18 semesters hours.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
  • Technical Competence
  • Communications
  • Flexibility
  • Administration and Management
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.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: Regular and recurring work is mostly sedentary involving sitting at a desk, although the position requires the ability to move from one geographic location of the facility to another. The incumbent works with a computer screen and keyboard. Some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or prolonged sitting may be required. The incumbent may be exposed to walking to outlying areas. The work places no special physical demands on the employee.

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Additional information

VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.

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.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview.
Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

Veterans Health Administration

OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise - "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?

VA Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) is an integrated health care delivery system, offering a comprehensive array of medical, surgical, rehabilitative, mental health and extended care to Veterans in Northern California.

The city of Sacramento has evolved over recent years and features two large universities, a thriving riverfront area with harbor, a number of notable museums, top restaurants, jazz nightspots, impressive theaters, more than 100 parks, scenic trails by the American River Parkway, and some striking architecture, including the magnificent California State Capitol building. Home to the River Cats, Triple AAA affiliate for the San Francisco Giants and Major League Soccer awarded an expansion team in Sacramento.

Located near San Francisco, one of America's favorite cities, Sacramento, is not far from the world class ski attractions at Lake Tahoe and the beautiful Napa Valley.

More History can be found here: https://www.northerncalifornia.va.gov/about/index.asp

Agency contact information

Sara Flores
Phone
369-873-3561
Email
Sara.Flores3@va.gov
Address
VA Northern California Health Care System
10535 Hospital Way
Mather, CA 95655
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