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Program Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 129 days ago
Hybrid West Haven, CT $88K – $114K Apply by Jun 8, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Healthcare
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The Program Specialist will provide administrative support to Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service (PM&R) and the Emergency Medicine Service Line. This position is located at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, CT. This position is Full Time at 40 hours/Week.
What You'll Do
- →The duties of this position include but are not limited to the following: Preparing programmatic reports, justifications, charts, graphs, statistical and narrative data for executive level presentations and briefings.
- →Works with leadership to improve effectiveness of workflow and clinical operations.
- →Writes, reviews, and revises documentation, proposals, service agreements, and policies as appropriate.
- →Participates on multi-disciplinary process and action teams to improve operations which cross service lines.
- →Performs budget analyst duties, forecasts, and estimates program requirement.
- →Manages Fund Control Points for two service lines.
- →Validate the cost and distribution of services and equipment to improve accountability, resource control, and efficiency of usage.
- →Manages the procurement and contracting which may include preparing procurement requests, evaluating proposals for work, acting as COTR for procurements, and/or maintaining procurement and contracting records.
- →Advise and assist Leadership to develop, analyze, evaluate, or improve the effectiveness of work methods and procedures, manpower utilization, distribution of work assignments, information, and documentation systems, and similar functions of management to improve the effectiveness of both clinical and administrative work methods.
- →Coordinate the Physiatrists schedules, coordinate meetings, and serve as the program manager overseeing clinical coordination for Physiatry services.
- →Assisting the Polytrauma/TBI program Case Manager ensuring directives, initiatives, policies, and procedures are met.
- →Maintains VA Connecticut Healthcare System program requirements/validation criteria for assigned groups and reviews reports involving trend analyses and follow-up for quality monitors and performance data.
- →Collects and validates utilization data, assuring that all workload data are captured.
- →Reviews data and recommends methods to improve productivity and expand services.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial 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 or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 07faae13-7014-4be9-8a75-0f7ed8d1f6e2
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