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Program Analyst
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 61 days ago
Hybrid Murfreesboro, TN $126K – $164K Apply by Jul 20, 2026 Management And Program Analysis ENTJINTJINTPISTJ
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The position is at the full performance level located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), within Education Service (EDU), in the Policy and Procedures (PP) Division.
What You'll Do
- →Specific duties include: The incumbent executes plans, designs, leads, evaluates and recommends project-level and portfolio-level management and implementation activities typical in a structured project management office guided by Program Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) or similar framework, principles, tools, and techniques.
- →The work requires expert application of analytical and evaluative methods to assess program risks, operational impacts, stakeholder requirements, policy implementation barriers, resource constraints, and long-range program outcomes.
- →The incumbent develops project strategies, implementation frameworks, risk mitigation approaches, decision documents, and recommendations used by senior leadership to guide policy and legislative implementation across EDU.
- →This work includes a high level of collaboration with the AD PP for goal alignment, and with stakeholders across the operational and/or goal areas.
- →The PM performs duties that leverage process, technology, and human capital, with each prioritized against current needs and balanced upon strategic program and project objectives.
- →The PM is responsible for execution of efforts that help achieve operational business results, and directs, leads, and facilitates initiative-based projects of short, intermediate, and long-term tenure within the policy project domain.
- →The work performed and supervised addresses a combination of complex and/or confidential personnel and business information, project management, and ad hoc activities of importance to the PP Division, and is performed collaboratively with the other EDU Divisions, operational or goal stakeholders, and others.
- →The PM leads or contributes to high-level projects and ensures completion of associated activities.
- →Project management of these initiatives is considered 'full lifecycle', with the incumbent responsible for participating in, directing, managing, and/or performing all aspects under the very broad guidance of the AD PP, from intake through all steps necessary to achieve success.
- →Promotion Potential: None; this position is at the full performance level.
- →Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only.
- →The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday.
- →Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval.
- →Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position.
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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.
- ✓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 Selectees are required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements: I-9 Acceptable Documents.
- ✓There is no education substitution for the GS-14 grade level.
Benefits
- ★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.
- ★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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 59737b53-d44a-4152-8740-e362151efca3
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