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Career Transition Assistance Plan Eligibles (CTAP); Reemployment Priority List Eligibles (RPL); OR Current Federal employees serving under career or career-conditional competitive service appointments with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General.

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Duties for the Lead Program Analyst GS-0343-14 include but not limited to:

Serves as an expert analyst, providing critical analysis of HHS and OIG programs and activities (approximately 75% of the time). The incumbent provides data analytic, audit, inspection, and evaluation expertise, drawing on knowledge and understanding of the substantive nature and interrelationships of the data, programs, planning processes, forecasting methodologies, and management concepts to assist OIG components in conducting oversight work.

Critically analyzes, synthesizes, and reports data and findings to satisfy the data provisioning and ad hoc analysis requests from each of the OIG components. Meets with requestors and/or OIG managers to determine the scope of the project and proposes a plan for analysis and a target completion date.

Conditions of employment

• U.S Citizenship is required.
• Registration with the Selective Service (if applicable).
• Suitability for Federal employment determined by background investigation.
• One-year probationary period may be required.
• Time in grade must be met within 30 days of closing date of announcement.
• Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-450) is required.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the qualification requirements, including education, and any selective placement factors described below within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following:
(1) Analyzing Medicare and Medicaid claims data and/or grants and contracts data to identify trends, anomalies, or potential fraud, waste, and abuse in support of federal oversight activities; and
(2) experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) and implementing query optimization best practices; and
(3) experience generating data to support oversight activities such as audits, evaluations, and investigations; and
(4) experience using agile best practices to lead day to day operations of a data analytics team; and
(5) Writing and maintaining Python scripts and using Git for version control in a collaborative data analytics environment.

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; religious; 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. Your resume should include the dates of all qualifying experience (from month/year to month/year) and the number of hours worked/volunteered per week. Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your eligibility for consideration and qualifications for the position will be determined based upon a review of your detailed resume and your responses to job specific application questions.

Your resume will be evaluated based on evidence of your ability to demonstrate possession of any specialized experience and how well your background and experience relates to the self-assessment questions in the job announcement.

Your resume will be evaluated by a subject matter expert to determine if you meet the qualifications for the position and will serve as a basis for an initial rating.

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