Management Analyst (DRAS)

Veterans Benefits Administration • Seatac, WA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Management Analyst is assigned to the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES), Disability Rating Activity Site (DRAS). The position provides objectively based information and recommendations to DRAS division leadership to inform decisions about organizational operations and management. The work includes substantive analysis, planning, training, evaluation, budgeting, and advising.

The analyst works with DRAS leadership and networks across the Department of Defense and VA to assess mission-level trends, staffing, resource use, workload, claims inventories, and the effects of national changes. The position develops recommendations, work methods, procedures, organizational guidance, reports, and budgetary proposals to improve administrative operations and efficiency.

The role also supports business-line records management and compliance, including policy development, coordination, monitoring, auditing, and identifying deficiencies for corrective action. It uses qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate organizational programs and administrative functions, analyzes narrative and statistical information, and uses VA data streams to create complex Tableau dashboards. The analyst interprets findings from independently developed studies, prepares status reports, and evaluates training and operations in the DRAS.

Requirements

• For GS-09, one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 applying analytical and evaluative techniques and using regulations, policies, and precedents to analyze issues, work functions, or processes; or qualifying graduate education as specified in the announcement.
• For GS-11, one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-09 applying analytical and evaluative techniques and agency regulations, policies, and precedents to analyze complex issues, work functions, or processes; or qualifying doctoral-level graduate education as specified in the announcement.
• Current federal GS employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date: 52 weeks at GS-07 for GS-09 consideration or 52 weeks at GS-09 for GS-11 consideration.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Applicants may be required to serve a one-year probationary period and are subject to a background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants must complete online onboarding and provide acceptable identification and I-9 documentation.
• Applicants using education to qualify must submit transcripts; foreign education requires a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with the transcript.
• The work is primarily sedentary, though slight physical effort may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop recommendations for program officials and supervisors that are complete and accepted by operating components.
• Work with division leadership and DRAS networks at the Department of Defense and VA to analyze long-term mission-level trends and recommend staffing, resource use, and workload decisions.
• Coordinate with Compensation Service to analyze the effects of national-level changes, such as regulation changes.
• Coordinate with the Department of Defense to analyze current and future claims inventories and provide recommendations to division leadership.
• Develop new or modified work methods and systems variations, and evaluate administrative operations to promote efficiency and cost savings.
• Recommend and submit organizational change guidance, procedures, and documents.
• Provide higher management with reports, evaluated information, budgetary proposals, and related products needed to direct administrative operations.
• Participate in discussions, meetings, conferences, and calls with agency administrators, subject-matter and technical personnel, and other federal officials to gather facts, present findings and recommendations, obtain concurrence, develop alternatives, and resolve problems.
• Advise management about conditions affecting administrative activities and interpret new or revised legislation, policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Meet with management and staff to identify potential problem areas and ensure managers have information to communicate changes and their impacts to staff.
• Develop and implement business-line policies and procedures consistent with VA and VBA policy, NARA requirements, and other applicable federal laws and regulations.
• Coordinate records management with Records Management Technicians, other business lines, and management.
• Monitor and audit records created and maintained by business lines; identify and report records-management deficiencies for corrective action and help ensure facility compliance.
• Maintain working knowledge of VA/VBA Systems of Records, VA/VBA privacy policy, the Freedom of Information Act, Office of Management and Budget requirements, NARA requirements, and other applicable federal laws and regulations.
• Establish study methods and techniques for substantive program studies and audits.
• Use advanced qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze and measure the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of organizational programs, including agency and inter-agency communications and software programs.
• Compile, develop, and analyze narrative and statistical information using advanced methods, techniques, and precedents, adapting or interpreting them for administrative functions.
• Analyze large amounts of data and provide mission-level recommendations to division leadership.
• Use VA data streams to create complex Tableau dashboards and provide recommendations to division leadership.
• Apply analytical and evaluative methods to issues or studies concerning substantive administrative support functions.
• Interpret findings from independently developed studies.
• Prepare status reports for review at all levels.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of administrative functions, training, and operations in the DRAS.

Benefits

• Federal employees and their families have access to a comprehensive benefits package; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed