Supervisory Budget Analyst

Summary

This position serves as a Supervisory Budget Analyst located in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Office of Financial Administration (OFA) Office of Budget (OB) Division of Job Corps (OJC). The primary purpose of the position is to plan direct and implement all phases of the mission and functions assigned to the OJC budget division.

This position is outside the Bargaining unit.

Duties

For Series 0560 - GS-14:

• Plans coordinates and integrates the formulation justification and execution of OJC budget activities.
• Evaluates submissions of annual budgets and if performance goals met or exceeded plans.
• Coordinates the budgetary work of program managers subject-matter experts budget analysts and staff officials (such as human resources computer systems and accounting specialists) and ensures work products respond to guidance.
• Serves as the technical authority on budget formulation and execution for multiple large accounts providing programmatic advice technical expertise and recommendations to the management team senior leaders program managers and Departmental budget staff regarding budgetary decisions financial analysis and the impact of actions on program operations.
• Monitors and tracks the use of funds through spend plans and analysis of financial and budgetary data.
• Researches compiles and analyzes data concerning grants contracts Interagency agreements salaries and expenses and other agency funding in order to make accurate projections of agency needs analyze trends and data variances recommend reprogramming of funds and avoid violations of the Antideficiency Act.
• Performs duties and responsibilities typical of Team Leader positions including explaining team goals and objectives to assigned team members and assisting then in accomplishing the work; coaching facilitating solving problems and participating in the work with the team.
• Communicating assignments milestones and deadlines; observing training needs and relaying training requirements.
• Ensures effective and proper use of funds according to the programs funds appropriations and leads staff in analyzing new and modified financial management legislation and regulations for their affect on Job Corps financial operations and management and develops new and modified financial policies regulations goals and objectives for the program.
• Manages budget analysts on formulation justification and execution of annual and supplemental appropriations. Demonstrates leadership including developing and maintaining effective working relationships managing supervising and motivating a diverse staff of professional technical and support personnel.
• Assigning and reviewing work and tracking and monitoring staff performance metrics to maintain full compliance with the Departments Performance Management Program.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
• Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.

Qualifications

For GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-13 in the Federal Service.

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge skills and abilities (KSAs) to perform the duties of the position successfully and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Specialized experience is defined as having at least 3 of the 4 specialized experience statements below:

• Experience in budget formulation including briefing policy-makers and drafting budget justifications for the internal OMB and Congressional budget submissions.
• Experience in budget execution including apportionments allotments suballotments and suballocations and tracking and reporting on status of budgetary resources.
• Experience in financial management and oversight including development and monitoring of spend plans for large-scale complex federal programs research and analysis of financial data compiling and monitoring progress reports reconciling discrepancies and taking corrective actions as appropriate.
• Experience managing or leading budget staff assigning and monitoring work evaluating staff performance and when applicable addressing poor performance.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Do NOT copy and paste the duties or specialized experience from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

Education

There is no education substitution for this position.

Additional information

The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers improve working conditions expand high-quality employment opportunities and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers.

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You may not be aware but in the regulations for agency ethics programs there are requirements for supervisors. Section 2638.103 of Title 5 of the CFR states: Every supervisor in the executive branch has a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. It is imperative that supervisors serve as models of ethical behavior for subordinates. Supervisors have a responsibility to help ensure that subordinates are aware of their ethical obligations under the Standards of Conduct and that subordinates know how to contact agency ethics officials. Supervisors are also responsible for working with agency ethics officials to help resolve conflicts of interest and enforce government ethics laws and regulations including those requiring certain employees to file financial disclosure addition supervisors are responsible when requested for assisting agency ethics officials in evaluating potential conflicts of interest and identifying positions subject to financial disclosure requirements.

Supervisory Financial Disclosure: This position is subject to the confidential financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521). Therefore if selected you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) to determine if a conflict or an appearance of a conflict exists between your financial interest(s) and your prospective position with DOL. This information will be required annually.

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Based on agency needs additional positions may be filled using this vacancy.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Required Experience:

Manager