Supervisory Program Analyst

This position is organizationally aligned under Patient Administrative Service (PAS) at the Jesse Brown Medical Center (537) Chicago, IL. The employee serves as a 2nd Level Supervisor and program analyst performing analytical and evaluative work of programmatic aspects of organizational operations and management. Assignments involve data gathering, analysis, and interpretation. The employee supervises Supervisory Medical Supports Assistants assigned throughout the Service.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/22/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: skill in applying analytical and evaluative techniques to the identification, consideration and resolution of issues and problems of a procedural and /or factual nature; skill in conducting interviews with supervisors and employees to obtain information necessary to evaluate and analyze the issues of the assignments; Knowledge of VistA applications; Knowledge of the Patient Administrative Service processes as it relates to administrative functions. Work includes a variety of assignments involving different and unrelated steps, processes, or methods; Skill in the use of software programs, including word-processing, databases, and spreadsheets, such Microsoft Word and Excel (most current versions);. OR,
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have ???????a master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B. or J.D., if related TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.. OR,
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Administration and Management
• Analytical Reasoning
• Communication
• Managing Human Resources

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: ???????Work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Responsibilities:

Duties includes:

• Establishes, directs, and manages a complex system of clerical support.
• Provides technical and administrative supervision for the Medical Support Team within the Service.
• Serves as the first-level supervisor of the Supervisory Medical Support Assistant Supervisors and second-level supervisor for the Medical Support Assistants.
• Initiating requests for recruitment, interviewing and selecting employees, complying with EEO objectives, planning and assigning work, and maintaining accurate and current position descriptions.
• Provides administrative and business support for the Service in meeting local and national mandates for performance measures.
• Assists the Inpatient Processing Section Chief/Outpatient Scheduling Chief (SC) with gathering and interpreting performance data, financial data, and workload data.
• Coordinates with informatics for development and management of data systems, assisting and creating the basis for data driven decision making of scheduling processes.
• Ensures that all required consult/scheduling audits are completed by the required deadlines.
• Responsible for solving problems through the selection and application of a variety of standard analytical techniques and procedures.

Work Schedule: 9:00 am-5:30 pm Monday- Friday
Telework: Ad-ho
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Program Analyst/PD240910
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Salary : $68,999