Department: Department of Veterans Affairs
Location(s): Las Vegas, Nevada
Salary Range: $63046 - $99169 Per Year
Job Summary: The incumbent serves as a Program Analyst located in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The primary purpose of the position is to provide expert analytical, evaluative, and advisory services for complex management processes and cross-functional programs within the healthcare system.
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Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/28/2026. 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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS- 07. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09 level. 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. MINUMUM QUALIFICATIONS:GS-9 Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of data management and creating a tracking system. Exercising appropriate controls to evaluate effectiveness of work output in meeting goals and objectives. Ability to develop presentations on collected data. Ability to understand program and manage various projects. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS- 07 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 extensive knowledge in a variety of local operational databases; write reports, case studies and proposals on a variety of operational, quality improvement, and research methods or results aimed at developing the means to provide necessary information for evidence-based medical decision making; assists clients (internal/external) through own judgment and acts on requests or inquiries by reaching out to appropriate subject matter experts who can provide resolution that meets with their satisfaction. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. OR Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education that equals to the next lower grade. MINUMUM QUALIFICATIONS:GS-11 Specialized Experience: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Understanding of data management and creating a tracking system. Exercising appropriate controls to evaluate effectiveness of work output in meeting goals and objectives. Ability to develop presentations on collected data. Ability to understand program and manage various projects. OR Substitution of Education: Applicants may substitute education for the experience required for the GS-09 grade level. For education to qualify, applicants must possess a Ph.D or equivalent graduate degree OR completed 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D degree in a major field of study which provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position. OR Combination of Experience and Education: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at the GS-09 level. To calculate, first identify the percentage of required education you have earned (when substituting, you cannot use the first 36 semester hours that you earned). Then identify the percentage of required experience you possess. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify at the GS-09 grade level. For example, an applicant who has 9 semester hours of graduate level education (i.e. 50% of graduate education required) and 6 months of creditable specialized experience (i.e. 50% of the required experience) would equal 100% of the required experience for the position. Preferred Experience: LEAF profiles, clinic configurations, schedule set up, encounter management, stop code, clinical workload, labor mapping.
How to Apply: Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement.Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating Two page resumes - Prioritize most relevant and recent experience - Use concise, results focused language - Align language from the job announcement - Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies - Remove outdated or unrelated experience - Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at: - https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/merit- hiring-plan-resources/applicant-guidance-on-the-two-page-resume-limit/
Application Deadline: 2026-04-28