Labor Category: Project Manager PAY RATE: $55 to $60/Hr

Location: 811 Vermont Ave., Washington, DC

Role: Project Manager for Facilities/Infrastructure Upgrades (PID 1106.c)

Activities/Job Overview:    

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program.

Works as a project management professional with extensive depth and breadth of experience in all phases of project management, including projecting planning, risk management, and change management. Consult on large scale deployments involving the infrastructure upgrades and readiness for the site (network and construction upgrades). This involves working with respective stakeholders to forecast, plan and implement: operational and technical processes and solutions, workforce management and planning, knowledge management, training, quality assurance, business continuity and disaster recovery, issue resolution, triage, and escalation, service level agreements/response times, and analysis and reporting. Candidate will address changes to project scope, schedule, methods to document and analyze proposed changes for presentation to VA Leadership for decision. Create project plans and communication strategies to support the implementation of EHRM infrastructure operations and technologies. Integrate and coordinate plan development with relevant stakeholders. Develop and present Executive-level briefings. Provide leadership in enterprise and overall program level planning/coordination/communication between Veterans Affairs components, senior management, agency partners, and industry teams.

Requirements   

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required. An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Strong Organization and time management skills with demonstratable project management experience
• Experience in leading a team in the fielding of IT systems, networks, hardware and software of both a simple and complex nature
• Extensive knowledge in the creation of deployment plans, the creation of cost, schedule and performance expectations based on input from all team members
• Able to identify all activities required in the near, mid and long-term phases of a program
• Experience in a wide variety of environments and equipment
• Experience in planning in order to ensure that deployment can be performed on schedule and with the available resources
• Management of infrastructure deployment and implementation projects (both technical and operational management preferred)
• Large scale deployment experience
• PMP, Six Sigma or similar Certifications
• MS Project, MS Office Suite (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to develop and present Executive-level briefings

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline is required

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA or DoD
• Experience integrating electronic health records a plus

Labor Category: Health IT Software Architect IV

Location: 811 Vermont Ave., Washington, DC

Role: Sr. Network Engineer (PID 1580)

Activities/Job Overview:    

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as a Sr. Network Engineer. The candidate will:

• Ensure scalability, availability, performance, and architecture/engineering practices for a large scale EHR system
• Assess, validate, and optimize end-to-end systems infrastructure and architecture
• Work with technical leads and systems engineers as a SME
• Lead project teams and initiatives related to EHR systems, infrastructure, and deployment
• Develop roadmaps and plans for next generation capabilities
• Provide guidance to government executives and technical teams on issues, best practices, and optimal methods
• Validate project deliverables

Requirements   

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience is required. An additional 10 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Experience independently designing and developing new software products or major enhancements to existing software for a healthcare/clinical environment
• Ability to perform as highest-level technical expert, addressing problems of systems integration, compatibility, healthcare semantics, informatics and multiple platforms
• Ability to see projects to completion in addition to performing feasibility analysis on potential future projects to management
• Experience in Network Engineering (10+ years) with 5+ years on large scale systems
• Experience with Network Engineering and Internetworking
• SME in Networks and internetworking or server, applications engineering
• Industry certifications (INCOSE, CCIE, MCSE/A, CISSP)
• Experience with enterprise network concepts (MPLS, prioritization, segmentation, load balancing, segmentation, continuity of operations DR/COOP)
• Experience with scalability analysis and modeling
• Experience with system (end-to-end) performance assessment and optimization
• Systems integration experience
• Experience with Cisco network solutions (core enterprise switches/routers, to wireless and edge)
• Experience with F5 Load balancers
• Root cause problem analysis

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare IT, computer science, electronics engineering, engineering or technical related fieldo

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA or DoD
• Experience with program/project management or PMP
• Experience integrating electronic health records

Labor Category:    Data Scientist I

Location:   1100 1st Street, Washington D.C.

Role:   Training Effectiveness Analyst (PID 1563)

Job overview/Activities   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as a Training Effectiveness Analyst. Create and/or apply existing survey tools to undertake a clinician and patient satisfaction survey regarding the training experience and effectiveness across all VISNs.

Requirements   

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Possesses knowledge of appropriate data sources to address specific requirements of projects for monitoring, characterization, analysis and modeling
• Performs scientific research, scientific writing and editing, including the writing and editing of project products to established government standards for the targeted science and lay audiences, proofreading of draft and final documents
• Works under supervision

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Science, Computer Engineering or related scientific, technical, or clinical discipline is required

Preferred qualifications:

• VA experience preferred
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records

Labor Category: Project Analyst

Location: Remote

Role: TMS Analyst (PID 1374.b)

Job Overview/Activities:

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as a TMS Analyst. Enter the training completion data into the TMS system. Develop report templates, run reports and conduct analysis. Maintain the training dashboard and all requisite reporting on training status. Follow up with Cerner instructors if there is missing data regarding training completion. Analyze training qualitative survey data; will be trained as a TMS administrator.

Requirements   

Basic qualifications:

• Must have 5 years of professional experience, 8 additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for education.
• Must have knowledge in how to plan, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of operating programs.
• Must be able to use source data to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and business processes.
• Must be able to use qualitative and quantitative analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of the operations.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business discipline.

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records
• Advanced Excel skills

Labor Category: Clinical Informaticist III

Location: 1100 1st Street, Washington, DC

Role: Patient Safety SME (PID 1575)

Job overview/Activities      

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as a Patient Safety SME. In performing day-to-day activities, the Patient Safety SME will be responsible for the following: review all patient safety tickets during Go-Live an sustainment phases of the EHR implementation; identifies gaps between patient safety tickets and incident tickets placed in SNOW/Cerner Remedy; prepares reports identifying the capture and reporting of patient safety events/issues, including adverse events, unsafe conditions, close calls, incident evaluations, recalls, and alerts; triages and manages site level patient safety events ensuring prompt mitigation of safety concerns; Review PWS and determines Patient Safety Task Order requirements and deliverables; Create on-call roster during Go-Live and takes call as required; Aggregate and evaluate patient safety findings, conduct root cause analysis; Prepare sentinel event reports, conducts clinical focus reviews, and peer reviews in collaboration with NCPS and OHi as appropriate; Collaborates with testing team to identify patient safety issues during testing phase; prepares reports and monitors open testing items throughout the implementation; Manages and reviews the approval processes for workflows across EHRM councils/workgroups to evaluate the patient safety impact; Develops and implements best practices that maximize clinical patient safety within the EHRM Program; Host safety events and creates patient safety content for safety summits and site safety events; Advises OEHRM Patient Safety Executive on opportunities, issues and concerns which may impact safety initiatives; Creates communications strategy around patient safety objectives to internal and external stakeholders; Establishes lessons learned catalog and conducts analysis currently existing patient safety errors; Writes transition plan after Go-Live in preparation for sustainment phase.

Requirements   

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience. An additional 12 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Ability to assess information and knowledge-based needs of healthcare professionals and patients
• Characterizes, evaluates, and refines clinical processes
• Develops, implements, and refines clinical decision support systems, and leads or participates in the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical information systems, such as EHRs and order-entry systems
• Can supervise and create new approaches and solutions

Educational Requirements:

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Healthcare or related scientific, technical or clinical discipline

Additional qualifications:

• Experience with VA or DoD
• Experience with Cerner EHR implementation
• Strong leadership, written communications, analysis, data gathering and organization
• Project management experience
• Proficient in PowerPoint and SharePoint

Labor Category: Project Analyst

Location: 1100 1st Street, Washington DC

Role: Process Modeling Analyst (PID 1557)

Work Description   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as a Process Modeling Analyst. Provide support to the Business Process Modeler, aiding with documentation and collection of future workflows and integration points that support change management and training improvements.

Requirements   

Basic qualifications:

•   Must have 5 years of professional experience, 8 additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for education

•   Must have knowledge in how to plan, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of operating programs

•   Must be able to use source data to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and business processes

•   Must be able to use qualitative and quantitative analytical skills to assess the effectiveness of the operations

Bachelor’s Degree in a Business discipline

Additional qualifications:

•   Experience in the VA

•   Experience implementing Electronic Health Records

Labor Category: Project Manager

Location:   811 Vermont Ave, Washington, DC

Role:   JSA Schedule Integrator / Scheduler (PID 1590)

Job Overview/Activities:   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program as an Integrated Master Scheduler who has experience in coordinating with various program/project participants to gather schedule data, including individual discrete events, relationships (dependencies) among events and actual schedule progress for infrastructure and facilities projects within the OEHRM. Candidate will create project plans to support OEHRM, to include integration and coordination of that plan with OEHRM, Networking, Cybersecurity, DHA, OIT, VHA and Cerner project plans. Must possess the ability to validate schedule logic following data input and have the ability to create standard report formats and ad hoc reports as directed by senior staff. Scheduling support will integrate and create a variety of VISN and Wave level views in support of programmatic SMEs.

• Support coordination with IMS and other schedules to include: OEHRM and TIO Master schedules, VHA construction schedules, OIT IT schedules, Cerner Master schedules and any OIT, OEHRM or DoD cybersecurity schedule. Each Schedule integrator will be provided a subset of schedules to integrate.
• Serve as point of contact for all scheduling activities across OIT, DoD, Cerner and OEHRM in support of JSA and infrastructure networking in support of JSA programmatic leads aligned to VISNs.
• Develop Wave and VISN level views, create critical paths, identify schedule risks, and support all programmatic activities.

Requirements   

Basic qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience. An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Experience managing Information Technology related projects
• Well versed in life cycle and project management methodologies
• Experience in tracking costs, schedule, and performance progress
• Able to identify and mitigate risks
• Ability to identify schedule risk and conduct critical path analysis
• Experience with Microsoft Project
• Ability to perform analysis of work vs. resource reports tos how over and under allocation of resources
• Ability to utilize Rational Tools for resource allocation usage reports
• Ability to provide cost, schedule, and variation reports
• Ability to provide Earned Value reports, Burndown rate reports, etc.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records

Labor Category:    Project Manager

Location:   1100 1st Street, Washington, DC

Role:   Clinical Testing Coordinator (UFT) (PID 1610)

Job Overview/Activities   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. The Clinical Testing Coordinator (User Functional Testing) is responsible to support he OEHRM CMO Clinical Test Director in the management of OEHRM related user functional testing events. This support includes the following activities:

• Coordinate with the OEHRM solution expert team on user functional testing
• Provide analytic support to run reports and track progress on user functional testing
• Ensure all user functional testing activity is documented in ALM and completed in a timely manner
• Ensure test cases submitted by Cerner meet the VA testing standards and document quality issues
• Assist the testers to execute on the test cases
• Assist in planning and coordination of user functional testing
• Help testers review and close test findings
• Assist in preparing briefing materials for program report outs
• Cover other activities as assigned by the OEHRM CMO Clinical Test Director

Requirements   

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience. An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Strong leadership, written/oral communications, analysis, data gathering and organization skills
• Experience managing Information Technology related projects.
• Well versed in life cycle and project management methodologies.
• Experience in tracking costs, schedule and performance progress.
• Able to identify and mitigate risks.
• ALM experience

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific /technical discipline

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records

Strong analytic skills and proficient in Microsoft tools

HIT experience preferred

Strong communication, organization and delivery skills

Previous testing experience

Labor Category: Project Manager

Location: 1100 1st Street, Washington, DC

Role: Clinical Testing Coordinator (IVT) (PID 1611)

Job Overview/Activities   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. The Clinical Testing Coordinator (Integration Validation Testing) is responsible to support the OEHRM CMO Clinical Test Director in the management of OEHRM related integration validation testing events. This support includes the following activities:

Assist in planning and coordination of integration validation testing logistics

Assist in identifying testers, setting up testing scenarios, and SME readiness with IVT activities

Coordinate with the OEHRM solution expert team on integration validation testing

Ensure all integration validation testing activity is documented in ALM and completed in a timely manner

Ensure test cases submitted by Cerner met the VA testing standards and document quality issues

Assist the testers to execute on the test cases

Help testers review and close test findings

Provide analytic support to run reports and track progress on integration validation testing

Assist in preparing briefing materials for program report outs

Cover other activities as assigned by the OEHRM CMO Clinical Test Director

Requirements   

Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience. An additional 8 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Strong leadership, written/oral communications, analysis, data gathering and organization skills
• Experience managing Information Technology related projects.
• Well versed in life cycle and project management methodologies.
• Experience in tracking costs, schedule and performance progress.
• Able to identify and mitigate risks.
• ALM Experience

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific /technical discipline

Additional qualifications:

• Experience in the VA
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records
• Strong analytic skills and proficient in Microsoft tools
• HIT experience preferred
• Strong communication, organization and delivery skills
• Previous testing experience

Labor Category: Data Scientist I

Location: 811 Vermont Ave, Washington, DC

Role: JSA Networking Programmatic Analyst/Reporting (PID 1588)

Job Overview/Activities   

Support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (OEHRM) JSA Programmatic SMEs as a Networking Programmatic Analyst. Candidate will conduct analysis, monitor, schedule meetings, coordinate with stakeholders, and develop products from appropriate data sources to support all programmatic activities. Duties include:

• Lead coordinator of all programmatic meetings/activities - including support to VISN/Wave level coordination with JSA Programmatic SMEs
• Responsible for site management and maintenance of all Infrastructure/JSA sites, to include access requests, and Power BI data source management
• Creation of high-level programmatic documentation and reports - including the development and use of Power BI to conduct these reports

Requirements   

Basic qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience is required. An additional 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirements
• Knowledge of appropriate data sources to address the specific requirements of projects for monitoring, characterization, analysis and modeling.
• Able to perform scientific research, scientific writing and editing, including the writing and editing of project products to established government standards for the targeted science and lay audiences, proofreading of draft and final documents.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare, Science, Computer Engineering or related scientific, technical, or clinical discipline

Additional qualifications

• Experience in the VA
• Experience implementing Electronic Health Records