Management Analyst

Quick Facts

• Role: Management Analyst (GS-11/GS-12 progression)

• Focus: IDES DRAS organizational operations and management analysis

• Work pattern: Full-time, Monday–Friday (7:30am–4:00pm); compressed/flexible; situational ad hoc telework only

Description

Provide objectively based information and recommendations to DRAS division leadership to support decisions on IDES organizational operations. Perform analytical, planning, training, evaluative, budgetary, and advisory work, including studying program effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Support leadership with reports, evaluated information, and budgetary proposals based on large-scale narrative and statistical data.

Responsibilities

• Develop recommendations for program officials and supervisors that are complete and accepted by operating components

• Analyze long-term mission-level trends to support staffing, resource use, and workload decisions

• Assess impacts of regulation changes and analyze current/future claims inventories; provide recommendations to leadership

• Create new or improved work methods, systems variations, and evaluation of administrative operations to improve efficiency and reduce costs

• Recommend and submit organizational change guidance, procedures, and documents; provide evaluated reports and budgetary proposals

• Collaborate with DoD, Department of the Army, and VA leadership; investigate facts and resolve issues through meetings and conferences

• Advise management on interpretation and implementation of new or revised legislation, policies, regulations, and procedures

• Establish study methods and techniques for program studies and audits

• Use advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity (including VTA and Tableau dashboards)

• Compile, develop, and analyze narrative and statistical information for administrative functions

• Analyze and recommend on mission-level direction inputs such as staffing levels and targets

• Evaluate operations against goals and objectives; prepare status reports and assess administrative functions, training, and operations

Benefits

A comprehensive U.S. federal employee benefits package; eligibility depends on the type of position held.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Selectively required registration for males born after 12/31/1959

• Subject to background/security investigation

• Complete a 1-year probationary period; continued employment requires certification that it advances the public interest

• Meet GS-11 or GS-12 time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the required prior grade level)

• GS-11: 1 year specialized experience at the GS-09 equivalent applying analytical/evaluative techniques and agency regulations to analyze complex issues or qualifying doctoral/graduate education or combination of education and experience

• GS-12: 1 year specialized experience at the GS-11 equivalent diagnosing organizational problems and implementing plans/process/system improvements, including advising leadership; no education substitution

• Submit transcripts if using education to qualify (unofficial allowed at application; official required if selected)