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• Negotiating cases with private landowners and/or public agencies for the acquisition of real property.
• Researching and analyzing data, issues and information for the use of higher-level personnel.
• Analyzing data or information to identify and resolve problems and/or address needs.
• Communicate with customers (internal and external) to finalize projects.
• Oversees the execution products, policies, and procedures within the organization.
• Responsible for staff management, coordination, and execution of mission support programs that support organizational goals.
• Develops uniform management policies and staff management principles and guidance for mission area programs within the section.
• Responsible for the execution, scope, cost and budget, interfacing with the agency customers.
• Responsible for attainment of operational plans, goals, and objectives.
• Provides oversight and review of the real property management services program and facilitate all aspects of real property.
• Advises Division Director and Director on issues involving the relationship of the functions supervised to assigned programs and their impact on other related programs.

This is a bargaining unit position.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 100 applications. The first 100 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (100 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 100 in the order they applied.

Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.

NOTE: This is a remote position. The salary range listed on this announcement reflects the minimum and maximum salary range for all locations. Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to reflect the salary for your specific location.

NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 3 years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4 year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Works with researchers to determine their needs
• Performs analyses of research studies and clinical trial protocols to determine data requirements
• Designs application and data storage systems
• Evaluates clinical trial data reporting requirements and implements required changed, ensuring data integrity and information security assurance
• Conducts hardware and software analysis
• Analyzes clinical trials electronic data capture requirements for screening, randomization, kit assignment, serious adverse events, data collection, and reporting
• Performs mapping analyses needed to determine data assurance and security requirements for data migration
• Designs and develops databases for studies
• Serves as the primary organizational representative for several concurrent projects
• Provides consultation and advice regarding core infrastructure to support, maintain, and improve informatics developments
• Proposes and develops strategic biomedical informatics programs to support better utilization and analysis of VA health, research, and genomic data
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Primary duties include but are not limited to the following:

• The National Contact Center (NCC) centralizes VBA's contact center activities and provides greater consistency and higher quality service by customer-facing employees.
• NCC employees may have contacts via telephone, email, video, or chat with the public for the purposes of (1) advising and providing information on benefits and rights; (2) explaining pertinent legal provisions, regulations, and related administrative practices and their application to specific cases; (3) assisting individuals regarding how best to provide needed documents and evidence required, and/or (4) initiating inquiries to resolve errors, delays, or other problems in obtaining benefits. The employees will also assist with the completion of claim and appeal related work.
• Assists the inquirer with determining the short-term and long-term circumstances that might influence a choice between various benefits. Programs include, but are not limited to, compensation and pension benefits, home loan eligibility, education, health care, life insurance, burial benefits, vocational rehabilitation services, fiduciary assistance, general Social Security Administration benefit programs, and other Federal, state, and local domestic relations and assistance programs.
• Explains the types of documents necessary to facilitate timely processing of claims and appeals and assists with obtaining and completing such documents and forms in accordance with the type of claim or appeal being submitted.
• Explains VBA rating decisions and provides explanations for the decisions using extensive knowledge of VA benefits and services, claim and appeal processing procedures, and all pertinent information available within the systems of record.
• Performs claim or appeal related work including, but not limited to, providing comprehensive claim or appeal status updates using mandatory scripting requirements, processing change of address requests, establishment of, or change to direct deposit banking information, burial allowance claims, dependency claim, etc.
• Appropriately responds to interactions where the customer wishes to speak/discuss to a "supervisor," by attempting to deescalate the interaction by immediately addressing the inquirer's needs prior to referral for a contact by a supervisor

• Performs the full range of contract price/cost analysis and negotiation functions in a pricing support office that is responsible for analyzing and evaluating a wide variety of proposals.
• Develops and documents results of price/cost analysis in the form of written reports, oral explanation to contracting personnel and others.
• Develops and documents guidance, memoranda, procedures, and instructions, which cover the full spectrum of price/cost analysis.
• Prepares and delivers oral briefings, training and presentations to staff, supervisors, higher-level officials, and outside organizations on price/cost analysis techniques and trends.

CDISs must be able to perform all duties of an MRT (Coder-Inpatient). The CDI Specialist serves as a consultant to various medical staff and ad hoc committees related to medical documentation activities, including compliance. They serve on various workgroups and teams as assigned. They are also responsible for reports preparation and presentation of data to the committee(s). Serves as a consultant in the development and updating of Medical Center policy memoranda pertaining to document function and medical record activities. Ensures that medical record documentation activities are consistent with the requirements established by VA manuals and directives and the Joint Commission standards and Scoring Guidelines.

They are responsible for facilitating improved overall quality, education, completeness, and accuracy of health record documentation through extensive interaction with clinical, coding, and other associated staff to ensure clinical documentation supports services rendered to patients, appropriate workload is captured, and resources are properly allocated. The CDI Specialist analyzes, interprets, and trends findings of quality improvement monitors and prepares monthly/quarterly reports for presentation to the medical staff and/or management. Based on these findings, makes recommendations, and persuades physicians/service chiefs to adopt proposals that result in necessary policy or procedural changes. The CDI Specialist must possess thorough knowledge of medical, terminology, anatomy and physiology and practical knowledge of medical treatment modalities, procedures, surgeries, and disease processes. They review documentation and facilitate modifications to the health record to ensure accurate severity of illness, risk of mortality, complexity of care, and utilization of resources. They identify opportunities for documentation improvement by ensuring that diagnoses and procedures are documented to the highest level of specificity, accurately address all acute and chronic conditions, and reflect the true health status of patients. Serves as Subject Matter Expert for HIMS regarding medical record documentation. Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, service chiefs, and other medical center staff at all organizational levels. Must possess effective interpersonal skills.

Responsible for determining the need for and extent of training medical staff personnel regarding medical record document and requirements. May be required to develop training materials and continuing education programs. Training programs may include legal and ethical documentation practices, Evaluation and Management Code assignment, medical record documentation requirements, etc. In cases where additional medical record documentation is necessary, incumbent advises and/or discusses the issue with the responsible physician(s) via query. Queries sent to clinical staff to clarify ambiguous, conflicting, or incomplete documentation. They review appropriateness of and responses to queries through review of query reports. Evaluates, monitors, and reports on data from a variety of sources in relation to inpatient and outpatient reimbursement. These sources include Data Validation outputs and data provided from the local VISTA and VA Central Office. Incumbent will conduct monitors, summarize data, and prepare reports in a variety of areas, including a variety of special projects for the HIMS section.

Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Chief, HIMS or designee.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 554-60217-0 Medical Records Technician Clinical Document Improvement Specialist (Inpatient) GS-0675-09
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

CDISs must be able to perform all duties of an MRT (Coder-outpatient). The CDI Specialist serves as a consultant to various medical staff and ad hoc committees related to medical documentation activities, including compliance. They serve on various workgroups and teams as assigned. They are also responsible for reports preparation and presentation of data to the committee(s). Serves as a consultant in the development and updating of Medical Center policy memoranda pertaining to document function and medical record activities. Ensures that medical record documentation activities are consistent with the requirements established by VA manuals and directives and the Joint Commission standards and Scoring Guidelines.

They are responsible for facilitating improved overall quality, education, completeness, and accuracy of health record documentation through extensive interaction with clinical, coding, and other associated staff to ensure clinical documentation supports services rendered to patients, appropriate workload is captured, and resources are properly allocated. The CDI Specialist analyzes, interprets, and trends findings of quality improvement monitors and prepares monthly/quarterly reports for presentation to the medical staff and/or management. Based on these findings, makes recommendations, and persuades physicians/service chiefs to adopt proposals that result in necessary policy or procedural changes. The CDI Specialist must possess thorough knowledge of medical, terminology, anatomy and physiology and practical knowledge of medical treatment modalities, procedures, surgeries, and disease processes. They review documentation and facilitate modifications to the health record to ensure accurate severity of illness, risk of mortality, complexity of care, and utilization of resources. They identify opportunities for documentation improvement by ensuring that diagnoses and procedures are documented to the highest level of specificity, accurately address all acute and chronic conditions, and reflect the true health status of patients. Serves as Subject Matter Expert for HIMS regarding medical record documentation. Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, service chiefs, and other medical center staff at all organizational levels. Must possess effective interpersonal skills.

Responsible for determining the need for and extent of training medical staff personnel regarding medical record document and requirements. May be required to develop training materials and continuing education programs. Training programs may include legal and ethical documentation practices, Evaluation and Management Code assignment, medical record documentation requirements, etc. In cases where additional medical record documentation is necessary, incumbent advises and/or discusses the issue with the responsible physician(s) via query. Queries sent to clinical staff to clarify ambiguous, conflicting, or incomplete documentation. They review appropriateness of and responses to queries through review of query reports. Evaluates, monitors, and reports on data from a variety of sources in relation to inpatient and outpatient reimbursement. These sources include Data Validation outputs and data provided from the local VISTA and VA Central Office. Incumbent will conduct monitors, summarize data, and prepare reports in a variety of areas, including a variety of special projects for the HIMS section.

Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Chief, HIMS or designee.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 554-60096-A Medical Records Technician Clinical Document Improvement Specialist (outpatient) GS-0675-09
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards

This announcement is for a Temporary promotion or Detail NTE 120 days. Open WMC wide only.

This announcement will close on 11/21/2024, the first 75 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the date in which the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.

The Program Manager is responsible for providing overall leadership and direction for the program as well as overseeing the planning, implementation, and management of the program within the Veterans Health Administration. The incumbent provides overall management and support of Scholarship and Clinical Education programs including daily communication with various customers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization, charter groups and arrange meetings, collect and analyze data, formulate and implement program development and improvement activities, assist in survey administration and the management of funds.

Major Duties Include:

• Performing application evaluation and explaining eligibility criteria to candidates.
• Identifying current and future program needs and establishing priorities.
• Preparing responses at the request of Congressional staff offices related to program area.
• Collaborating with other agencies for application selection.
• Preparing annual and supplemental requests for funding and decision documents.
• Collecting and analyzing data for purposes of determining funding needs for program support, identifying additional disciplines to include in legislative proposals and determining cost-effectiveness of educational assistance opportunities.
• Serving as a national technical expert on the laws, regulations and policy that govern the operation of Scholarship and Clinical Education programs.
• Creating and justifying the annual budget of programs along with management of received funds.
• Developing budget reports and assisting in budget allocation and execution for the program and monitoring the use and rate of expenditure of budgeted funds.
• Collecting, inputting, managing, and maintaining data, record keeping, and creating and generating budget and financial reports.
• Developing comprehensive plans and processes to attract program candidates based on projected
  occupational needs.
• Developing policy/guidelines, instructional methods, materials, etc. to support program participation to meet Administration recruitment needs.
• Providing subject matter expert analysis and advice on agency-wide student loan financial recruitment &
  retention programs.
• Collaborating with Third Part Vendors for processing of payments.

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set, and adjust short-term priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training.
• Assemble cross-agency federal coalitions to collaboratively solve challenging nationwide water resources problems.
• Conduct and exercise oversight for nationwide water resources software within the organization.
• Manage and provide technical supervision of research, training, and technical assistance projects assigned to the division and leadership with national teams.
• Determine the scope of nationwide programs through contact with field offices, HQUSACE, other federal agencies.
• Plan the program from the viewpoint of meeting the immediate and strategic needs for flood risk management and ecosystems analyses.
• Manage funding to deliver services and products as outlined in the division's overall project management plan.
• Serve as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for all contracts awarded for the division.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for:
•    Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound.
•    Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities.  
•    Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements.  
•    Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations.  
•    Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations.

APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first.  

We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application.

As a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist, GS-0360-14, you will be responsible for:
• Provides team and program leadership in the planning and conduct of complaint investigations, compliance reviews, proactive enforcement activities, and the provision of technical assistance.
• Supervises and participates in the activities of the case resolution team, coordinates with other OCR teams, plans and assigns work, assures that quality and quantity requirements are met, evaluates performance, deals with officials of other units in the organization, advises management officials at higher levels on group complaints, effects disciplinary actions, recommends personnel actions, and promotes team building.
• Provides professional leadership and guidance to team members, state and institutional officials in conducting, extending and improving civil rights complaint investigation, compliance review, proactive enforcement and technical assistance activities. Provides leadership in establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers including state officials, recipients, civil rights organizations, and education groups.
• Conducts extremely complex complaint investigations that are likely to result in major precedent-setting decisions and is responsible for each phase of the case through resolution. If enforcement is necessary, the Team Leader provides expert testimony in an administrative hearing or subsequent court actions.
• Reviews the allegations, identifies, analyzes and interprets considerable pertinent data, interviews witnesses, develops legal theories and investigative plans.

You will:

• Develop and implement state/EPA partnerships for environmental protection programs.
• Review grants, cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements activities related to the initiation, administration, and/or close-out of a variety of grants, cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements (IAGs), including responsibility for monitoring performance.
• Assist project managers on ad hoc teams, dealing with competing demands and priorities; prepare written materials; and make briefing and presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Serve as a technical/programmatic specialist in providing information to state, local and/or tribal governments and non-profits to help facilitate assigned environmental protection programs development within municipalities/towns/tribes.

When entering a Federal job at a grade level lower than the highest promotion potential level, you may be promoted to more complex duties and work more independently, as your career progresses.  NOTE:  Career ladder promotions are not automatic, and all eligibility and qualifications requirements must be met in order to progress to the next grade level.

You will spend more than 50% of your work time on contracts, grants/cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

You will:

• Serve as a technical/programmatic authority in providing expert advice and assistance to state, local and/or tribal governments and non-profits to help facilitate assigned environmental protection program development within states/municipalities/tribes.
• Serve as a primary senior staff authority and coordinator to develop and implement stakeholder/EPA partnerships for environmental protection programs; Negotiate, facilitate, create, and evaluate specific agreements.
• Manage grant, cooperative agreements and/or interagency agreement (IAG) activities related to the initiation, administration, and/or close-out of very complex, difficult, or novel grants, cooperative agreements, and/or IAGs, including responsibility for monitoring performance.
• Manage special projects and lead ad hoc teams.

When entering a Federal job at a grade level lower than the highest promotion potential level, you may be promoted to more complex duties and work more independently, as your career progresses.  NOTE:  Career ladder promotions are not automatic, and all eligibility and qualifications requirements must be met in order to progress to the next grade level.

You will spend more than 50% of your work time on contracts, grants/cooperative agreements, and/or interagency agreements.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

• Conducts onsite investigations to assess crop insurance program compliance.
• Performs investigations to substantiate alleged or suspected instances or patterns of noncompliance.
• Participates in negotiations with persons whose activities have been found to be at odds with agency guidelines.
• Conducts analysis of reports required of individuals and re-insured companies engaged in crop insurance activities to assess their compliance with mandatory guidelines.
• Explains and promotes the regulatory/compliance program to those whose activities are subject to it, as well as to the general public.
• Serve as an investigator with responsibility to conduct on-site reviews and evaluations of Re-insured Companies and general Risk Management program operations to ensure compliance with FCIC approved policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Assist senior investigators in reviewing problems, controversies or alleged or suspected irregularities in claim inspections and payments.

• Conducts onsite investigations to assess crop insurance program compliance.
• Performs investigations to substantiate alleged or suspected instances or patterns of noncompliance.
• Participates in negotiations with persons whose activities have been found to be at odds with agency guidelines.
• Conducts analysis of reports required of individuals and re-insured companies engaged in crop insurance activities to assess their compliance with mandatory guidelines.
• Explains and promotes the regulatory/compliance program to those whose activities are subject to it, as well as to the general public.
• Serve as an investigator with responsibility to conduct on-site reviews and evaluations of Re-insured Companies and general Risk Management program operations to ensure compliance with FCIC approved policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Assist senior investigators in reviewing problems, controversies or alleged or suspected irregularities in claim inspections and payments.