Management Analyst (VERA Coordinator)
What you'd do
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.
Major duties
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
What you need to qualify
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. - OR- 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) - OR - 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/.
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