U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · 6 hours ago
Healthcare Data Analyst
Asheville, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$75K/yr - $97K/yr
1+ years expThe U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a Healthcare Data Analyst to support executive leadership with overall facility planning requirements for the Western North Carolina VA Health Care System. The role involves providing data and program analysis, data validation, and program management support functions to promote leadership decisions.
GovernmentMedicalNational SecurityPublic Safety
Responsibilities
Provides analysis of the healthcare delivery system's capacity and demand for the medical center and community-based outpatient clinics
Responsible for assisting executive leadership and the Facility Healthcare Planner with data analysis activities - such as collecting and interpreting data and analyzing and reporting results
Analytics will bring together theory and practice to identify and communicate data-driven insights
Ensures the continuing development of data and program analysis and reports through self-designed complex programs for program planning - policy development - and cost and quality assessment
Projects require the ability to understand health care issues - apply methodologies - and interpret results in formulating policy recommendations
Manages - merges - and analyzes VA and collaborative databases
Identifies the most appropriate analytical techniques and data sources
Implements statistical and data reduction techniques
Presents results using most appropriate methods for presentation and publication
And creates secondary and tertiary databases for use in studies (e.g. - information on veteran populations - utilization - etc)
Data Analyst continually reviews and defines new data collection and analysis processes
Leads teams of administrative and clinical staff in joint projects on an as needed basis
Analyze results to design and present in ways to help executive leadership make informed decisions about healthcare operations
Qualification
Required
Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement - 02/06/2026
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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09
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 must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization
Examples of specialized experience would typically include - but are not limited to: Knowledge of and skill in applying hospital administrative principles - standards - policies - practices and applicable regulations which involves the use of program and supported resources to resolve encountered problems and identified discrepancy issues
Comprehensive knowledge of administrative - clinical operations - and functions of the healthcare delivery system and clinic service activities and operations
Specific and technical knowledge of some services may be required by certain aspects of assignments and/or projects
Knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations governing health care organizations as well as knowledge of VA policies and procedures and medical center guidelines
To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. - if related
Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level
You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond
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