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This Instructional Systems Specialist position is located Enterprise Support, Training & Development (T&D), Training Operation Division and Training Centers Division, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a principal technical expert providing professional advice and guidance on a variety of complex and time critical training-related issues. Ensures course learning objectives, organizational training requirements, and agency mission and goals are validated and incorporated into curriculum design process.
• Monitors the overall effectiveness of the instructional design programs for instructor led and web-based training programs that are based on the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. Applies professional skills and knowledge to develop innovative and effective solutions for evaluation issues and established T&D curriculum development standards and policy.
• Establishes, adjusts, or redefines curriculum development standards, develops quality control assessment tools and methodologies.
• Briefs and provides authoritative advice to the course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters, field managers, senior leadership, and represents the Division at meetings, conferences, and workshops relating to curriculum development and management; to include, related policy development, program responsibilities and operations.
• Implements a proactive planning strategy to ensure timely introduction of new or revised procedures, techniques, or operational concepts to achieve the mission requirements. Assesses and validates agency training needs through activities such as analyzing organizational performance data, consulting with program offices and subject matter experts, as well as conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups with employees and instructors. Provides program offices and subject matter experts with continual feedback (utilizing all communication methods) regarding all aspects of the training program; and recommends cost-effective and learner-centric applications for the conduct of training.
• Collaborates with course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters and field managers, and senior leadership to determine the appropriate strategy and approach for deploying training to the target audience.
• Produces well defined and educationally sound, training products, interventions and supporting documentation as described in TSA Management Directives and established local policy and procedures.

This Instructional Systems Specialist position is located Enterprise Support, Training & Development (T&D), Training Operation Division and Training Centers Division, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a principal technical expert providing professional advice and guidance on a variety of complex and time critical training-related issues. Ensures course learning objectives, organizational training requirements, and agency mission and goals are validated and incorporated into curriculum design process.
• Monitors the overall effectiveness of the instructional design programs for instructor led and web-based training programs that are based on the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model. Applies professional skills and knowledge to develop innovative and effective solutions for evaluation issues and established T&D curriculum development standards and policy.
• Establishes, adjusts, or redefines curriculum development standards, develops quality control assessment tools and methodologies.
• Briefs and provides authoritative advice to the course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters, field managers, senior leadership, and represents the Division at meetings, conferences, and workshops relating to curriculum development and management; to include, related policy development, program responsibilities and operations.
• Implements a proactive planning strategy to ensure timely introduction of new or revised procedures, techniques, or operational concepts to achieve the mission requirements. Assesses and validates agency training needs through activities such as analyzing organizational performance data, consulting with program offices and subject matter experts, as well as conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups with employees and instructors. Provides program offices and subject matter experts with continual feedback (utilizing all communication methods) regarding all aspects of the training program; and recommends cost-effective and learner-centric applications for the conduct of training.
• Collaborates with course sponsors, subject matter experts, headquarters and field managers, and senior leadership to determine the appropriate strategy and approach for deploying training to the target audience.
• Produces well defined and educationally sound, training products, interventions and supporting documentation as described in TSA Management Directives and established local policy and procedures.

This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-11, however a selection can be made at any of the following grade levels: GS-07, GS-09 OR GS-11. At the GS-07 grade level, you will perform assignments of a more limited scope and with less independence. At the GS-09 grade level, you will progressively acquire the background necessary to perform at the full performance level of GS-11. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance.

Major duties include but is not limited to:

• Formulates a variety of financial reports; serving as a member of a management team for organizations serviced and recommending the establishment of policies and procedures affecting the accounting system.
• Advises management on regulatory requirements and changing program operations.
• Devises accounting structures and procedures to satisfy regulatory or legislative changes.
• Assists management in applying financial data and recommending alternatives to resolve difficult problems; reconciling cash, accounts receivable. accounts payable, and other general ledger accounts; correcting all differences between the subsidiary ledger balances and the control account balances in the general ledger. .
• Provides accounting information and guidance to program officials; developing a segment of an automated accounting system;
• Prepares procedural instructions for the development or implementation of automated accounting systems; reviewing. analyzing, and validating domestic and/or foreign business industry financial and statistical data.
• Uses appropriate costing methodologies to recognize, determine. accumulate and report costs of activities on a regular basis for management information purposes.
• Prepare cost analysis for various areas in the Medical Center by analyzing buying and selling agreements to ensure the VA recoups all costs.
• Assists in performing financial audits, analysis, and evaluations of the financial operations and related procedures as part of the Fiscal Service Quality Assurance System, which includes Accounting, Employee Accounts, Agent Cashier, Voucher Audit, General Post Funds, Real Property and Patient Funds.
• Assists in the preparation, analysis, and submission of a variety of financial statements, reports and audits to local management, VACO management. and other agencies or organizations which includes the Annual Report of Real Property, Annual Report of Depreciation, and other recurring and non-recurring reports and audits.
• Assist in verifying, analyzing and/or reconciling a very large number of computer generated reports which includes, but not limited to, RCS-JO Trial Balance, RPO 820 Control Point Listing, RPO 821 Operating Ledger Update Listing, RPO 82S Analysis of Reimbursable Earning and Collections, RPO 826 Status of Funds, RPO 827 CALM Monthly Journal, RPO 830 Listing of Cost and FTEE, RPO 83I Listing of Modifications and Deletions, RPO 860 Accounting Reconciliations, RPO 861 Reconciliations of Reimbursable Earnings, RPO 865 Reconciliations of General Ledger Accounts, RPO 885a Obligation by Subaccount, RPO 887 Obligation by Control Point, Cost Center, and Subaccount, and Interoffice General Ledger Accounts.
• In the absence of the Chief. Accountant, incumbent will coordinate workload activities and provide guidance on technical issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Pathways Program Management: Manage daily administrative activities and requirements for student employees. Monitors academic progress for specific educational and program degree requirements and provided advisement towards degree completion, including continued verification of enrollment and academic standing. Manage and maintain reports on student training and development progress.
• Recruitment and Retention: Support nation-wide recruitment to broaden participation of students enrolled in diverse accredited universities and colleges. Provide expertise on creative approaches to assess, plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate recruitment and retention efforts.
• Reporting and Other Support: Collect and analyze various program and student demographic data and information to support repetitive and consistent data gathering, analysis, tracking and reporting capabilities.

The Marion VA Health Care System is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

MRT (Coding) Auditors serve as experts of current coding conventions and regulations related to professional and facility coding. The duties include but are not limited to:

• Performing audits of encounters to identify areas of non-compliance in coding.
• Providing recommendations on appropriate coding and are responsible for maintaining current knowledge of the various regulatory guidelines and requirements.
• Working with staff to ensure that regulations are met or areas of weakness are identified and reported to appropriate supervisor for corrective action.
• Performing prospective coding audits and utilizing results to identify processing inadequacies and re­educate coding staff where necessary.
• Coordinating retrospective reviews to ensure adequate auditing of coding activities.
• Acting independently to plan, organize, direct and control areas with emphasis on data validation, analysis and generation of reports associated with the Medical Center's health information management program. This includes managing the professional health information management functions such as retrieving, reviewing and abstracting health record information.
• Determining quality control measures needed; initiate and implement them by use of monitors and/or continuous review.
• Applying comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy & physiology, disease processes, treatment modalities, diagnostic tests, medications, procedures as well as the principles and practices of health services and the organizational structure to ensure proper code selection.
• Selecting and assigning codes from the current version of several coding systems to include current versions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and/or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
• Adhering to accepted coding practices, guidelines and conventions when choosing the most appropriate diagnosis, operation, procedure, ancillary, or Evaluation and Management code to ensure ethical, accurate, and complete coding.
• Applying codes based on guidelines specific to certain diagnoses, procedures, and other criteria (inpatient and outpatient settings) used to classify patients under the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program that categorizes all VA patients into specific classes representing their clinical conditions and resource needs.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs and monitors established administrative management requirements for an organization with few subdivisions or functions, an organization with well-established administrative requirements, or for an organization with more dynamic administrative requirements.
• Drafts correspondence, recommendations, reports, and memoranda related to management ad administrative programs and issues.
• Determines pertinent issues and collects relevant information from a variety of sources.
• Coordinates the administrative aspects of office moves, office construction, and other facility improvements including furniture, equipment, telephones, and short-term storage.
• Set up and maintains systems to control purchasing and the use of supplies.
• Identifies and performs routine liaison tasks to support the organizational planning process.
• Assists in analyzing program, budgetary, and fiscal data.
• Assists in providing guidance on routine aspects of tasks to support the administration of established quality and productivity programs for the organization.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Marion VA Health Care System is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

MRT (Coding) Auditors serve as experts of current coding conventions and regulations related to professional and facility coding. The duties include but are not limited to:

• Performing audits of encounters to identify areas of non-compliance in coding.
• Providing recommendations on appropriate coding and are responsible for maintaining current knowledge of the various regulatory guidelines and requirements.
• Working with staff to ensure that regulations are met or areas of weakness are identified and reported to appropriate supervisor for corrective action.
• Performing prospective coding audits and utilizing results to identify processing inadequacies and re­educate coding staff where necessary.
• Coordinating retrospective reviews to ensure adequate auditing of coding activities.
• Acting independently to plan, organize, direct and control areas with emphasis on data validation, analysis and generation of reports associated with the Medical Center's health information management program. This includes managing the professional health information management functions such as retrieving, reviewing and abstracting health record information.
• Determining quality control measures needed; initiate and implement them by use of monitors and/or continuous review.
• Applying comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy & physiology, disease processes, treatment modalities, diagnostic tests, medications, procedures as well as the principles and practices of health services and the organizational structure to ensure proper code selection.
• Selecting and assigning codes from the current version of several coding systems to include current versions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and/or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
• Adhering to accepted coding practices, guidelines and conventions when choosing the most appropriate diagnosis, operation, procedure, ancillary, or Evaluation and Management code to ensure ethical, accurate, and complete coding.
• Applying codes based on guidelines specific to certain diagnoses, procedures, and other criteria (inpatient and outpatient settings) used to classify patients under the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program that categorizes all VA patients into specific classes representing their clinical conditions and resource needs.

• Serve as a designated Reclamation-wide staff consultant and bureau lead for Employee Relations program areas.
• Provide bureau level advisory on Labor Relations program areas.
• Serves an ER/LR bureau liaison to the Department of Interior, the Office of the Solicitor, the Office of the Inspector General, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Personnel Management.
• Develop and implement agency-wide guidance and conduct analysis related to performance management principles.
• Conduct analysis on performance measurements and report on trends.
• Provide expert-level insight to add value and influence decisions on the direction of Employee Relations program areas.
• Conduct research and make data-based recommendations to leadership regarding workplace flexibilities such as telework options, remote work, wellness programs, and flexible work schedules.
• Lead monthly functional meetings to a community of HR practitioners across regional Servicing Human Resources Offices.
• Serve as a technical expert regarding collective bargaining agreements and memoranda of understanding with local unions.

Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for answering telephones, secure messages and chat messages, greeting patients relaying messages to appropriate staff inside or outside of the VISN CCC.
• Utilizes numerous advanced patient systems in support of multiple clinics involved in an interprofessional coordinated care delivery model.
• Communicates with the patient, interprofessional care delivery teams, VA medical centers,
  and other agencies; communicate with non-VA medical facilities.
• Manages patient systems to verify and validate accuracy and resolve issues.
• Evaluates patient information and clinic schedule lists to determine whether the patient requires an immediate appointment.
• Provides information and resolution to Veterans' requests within scope, uses administrative judgement to escalate symptomatic concerns to clinicians within the VISN CCC or directs the contact to the appropriate discipline within the CCC or department for resolution.
• Provides high-quality customer service to Veterans and their families/caregivers.

Strategic Planning and Execution

• Manages and stewards the agency's strategic plan by using strategic goals, objectives, performance plan measures, targets, and actual results to support decision-making for budget resource allocations and risk mitigation.
• Leads agency wide strategic planning - including analysis, inter-office coordination and leadership discussion.
• Oversees the production of leadership-level quarterly meeting to review agency priorities and progress toward the agency strategic plan.
• Oversees and leads the execution of the strategic planning process at the start of each presidential administration.
• Oversees production of a comprehensive report, or dashboard equivalent, to support the agency's Congressional Budget Justification.

• Transmits regular reports on matters related to the authority as PIO to the agency's COO.
• Advises and assists the CEO and the COO to ensure that the mission and goals of the agency achieved through strategic goals and performance planning, measurement, analysis, regular assessment of progress, and use of performance information to improve the results achieved.
• Assists the CEO and the COO in the development and use within the agency of performance measures in personnel performance appraisals.
• Ensures that agency progress toward the achievement of all goals is communicated to leaders, managers, and employees in the agency and Congress, and made available on a public website of the agency.

• Exercises expert managerial and diplomacy skills to represent the DCOS, COS, COO or CEO by coordinating and consulting with multiple hierarchical levels of senior career and political management officials of the agency, other Federal agencies, and external stakeholders, as appropriate, regarding major initiatives, actions accomplished, milestones to be achieved, and any issues or problems of significance.

• Provides leadership, oversight, and direction to the staff in the Office of Performance and Strategy.
• Manages employee performance, staffing, and personnel issues and implements delegated responsibilities. Provides appropriate guidance, leadership, and directives on the full range of administrative and technical matters affecting their responsibilities, including the interpretation of program and Agency policies affecting Agency offices.
• Evaluates performance in accordance with agency guidelines; has authority to make a broad range of human resource decisions including hiring, promotion, conduct and performance-based actions, performance evaluation/awards, and the development, training, and mentoring of staff.
• Models innovation, creativity, and excellence and encourages the development of those competencies throughout the agency. Performs these duties following and promoting equal employment opportunity principles.
• Inspires and motivates cross-functional teams and stakeholders with competing interests towards a shared vision, strategy, and goals, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence to achieve strategic goals. Makes informed, timely decisions that balance the needs of the team with organizational priorities, fostering trust and confidence in leadership. Cultivates innovative ideas and designs and implements cutting edge programs, processes, or business models to drive organizational growth and efficiency.
• Plans and directs strategic, operational, and cultural initiatives and plans for the CEO and COO, in partnership with the DCOS, keeping both parties abreast of agency climate, project statuses, new proposals, policy changes, and operational challenges.

• Provides leadership, policy, executive direction, guidance and supervision, and coordinates long and short-range planning. Exercises overall authority for priority setting with respect to both resource allocation and issues for analysis and policy development. Provides leadership in developing, implementing, and monitoring policy, program plans and initiatives, and utilizes effective monitoring systems for critical initiatives.
• Manages budgets and resources effectively, ensuring financial prudence and optimal allocation of resources to support strategic initiatives. Identifies and implements strategies to maximize resource utilization and achieve cost savings.
• Improves policies, addresses challenges. Improves current processes and optimizes organizational procedures for efficiency and productivity. Creates and maintains systems and processes to streamline operations.
• Leads efforts to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and improve overall productivity and effectiveness.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Performance Management

• Leads, manages, and facilitates the strategic planning process at the start of each presidential administration, in alignment with OMB policy.
• Develops and manages the project plan, identifies 2 resource needs, develops schedules, coordinates the planning team and working group meetings, progress reviews, communications, and reporting requirements.
• Leads the strategic planning team in the agency analysis of the operating environment, Administration priorities or other emerging factors.
• Integrates strategic foresight (i.e., SWOT analysis, environmental scanning, trend analysis, and scenario planning, etc.) into the strategic planning and review process to guide the planning team in considering a longer time horizon and broader scope of issues.
• Identifies risk and develops mitigation plan to keep the project on track. Identifies and prioritizes strategic imperatives and develops long-range goals and, strategic objectives.
• Develops, tracks and reports key performance indicators and metrics to monitor AmeriCorps' strategic plan progress.
• Collaborates with enterprise risk management and other agency offices to develop and mature monitoring tools and mitigations to support achieving agency performance targets.
• Serves as the first point-of-contact for data requests. Reviews data request from internal and external entities including OMB and Congress. Consult, collaborate, and coordinate with offices across the agency to obtain, gather, analyze, and validate information, and ensure timely response.
• Produces a comprehensive Annual Report Addendum, or dashboard equivalent, to support the agency's Congressional Justification and required documents, with the intent to mature into Annual Performance Plans and Reports. Implement and adapt to new mandates and administration priorities, for example M-23-15 on Organizational Health and Performance.
• Identifies ways to implement what is being asked with support from the Director. Data and

• Serves as a thought partner and subject-matter expert to agency staff on performance management best practices.
• Develops and maintains agency resources and tools, including SharePoint sites, guides, standard operating procedures, and policies.
• Coordinates with AmeriCorps' Budget Office to meet the reporting requirements outlined in OMB Circular A-11, Part 6.
• Consolidates, validates, and facilitates the interpretation the performance data for key reporting documents: The Congressional Budget Justification (CBJ), The Annual Performance Report (APR), The Annual Performance Plan (APP). Present to agency board and translates performance data for board-appropriate decision making.

• Serves as a consultant to offices in designing performance strategies required to meet strategic objectives, helping agency staff identify their needs to advance the work, create systems and processes to ensure agency wide-alignment and support centralized reporting, and to build agency-wide performance capacity.
• Coordinates with the Budget Office and related parties to mature the processes and products defined in the Performance Budgeting model. Consults with offices across the agency to identify emerging performance management needs across the agency.
• Provides support to offices with time-limited performance improvement projects, as needed.
• Prepares various reports, presentations and or briefings to deliver results on key agency initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned

This position is for a temporary promotion, not to exceed 1 year. You may be returned at any time to the position from which you were temporarily promoted, or to a different position of equivalent grade and pay.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Ensures the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
• Articulates and communicates assignments, projects, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion.
• Coaches the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques, provides advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assists the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
• Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization, making adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks, and ensuring each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
• Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects and provides or arranges for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks.
• Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to see that the supervisor's instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met.
• Serves as coach, facilitator, and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.

The Information Technology Specialist (Data Analyst) performs the following major duties:

• Develops intuitive and interactive Power BI reports and dashboards that help users make better decisions. Develops and executes testing protocols throughout the entire data product development process, including functional, regression, and release testing to ensure data products meet quality standards.
• Establishing metrics for measuring the performance of the plans, as well as leading the activities to capture the data necessary to analyze and report on performance of specified initiatives and general operations.
• Prepares content for long-range planning activities and the objectives and indicators to achieve them. Produces content for IT strategic planning and operational performance plans to include strategic goals, performance indicators and other performance metrics. Manages data dashboards of key strategic performance indicators and performance metrics for OCIO.
• Plans and establishes an organizational analysis program that encompasses a diverse set of Agency IT projects, initiatives, products, and programs.
• Provides OCIO managers with information to aid decision-making and increase program and operation effectiveness; Adds context to data gathered; Facilitates cross-function data sharing; Reviews data from different sources for trends and relationships; Reviews and analyzes data by different variables to look for trends and gaps; Produces standard and customized statistical reports

• Reporting and Data Management: Collects and analyzes a myriad of data and information and consolidates into a format that will be included in and become part of a larger study. Statistical data and analyses are generated on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis, depending on the organization's needs.
• Administrative Management: Perform analyses of quality control processes involving controversial or complex administrative or programmatic issues or problems. Provide recommendations on difficult issues or problems impacting major programs, its organizational structure, or the use of new technology in operational processes. Monitor organization's strategy for changes in regulatory developments, workforce conditions, emerging priorities and directives from higher authorities and evaluates their impact on the program and its resources and provides interpretative guidance to subordinate activities.
• Special Projects: Manage special assignments at the direction of the supervisor to support goals and objectives. This includes working through pre-established plans and ensuring completion of work through efficient management of resources and tactful problem-solving skills.

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia. This position is eligible for fully remote work anywhere within the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. There is no reporting requirement. *The duty station is the authorized telework location (typically your home address) and locality pay is adjusted appropriately.

*If selected for an interview, applicants are encouraged to discuss telework options and eligibility specific to the position in which they applied with the hiring manager.

This position is the ideal position for you if:

• You enjoy reviewing major acquisitions of similar complexity, presenting findings, and recommending corrective actions and policy or procedure improvements.
• You're committed to planning, negotiating, leading and/or administering complex procurements of goods, systems, or services with specialized, state-of-the-art, critical or scarce requirements.
• You're interested in reviewing, advising on, developing, and recommending operating unit-wide or agency-wide procurement processes, systems, procedures, and policies.
• You're passionate about leading a team of peers in contracting and procurement work.