This position is within the Office of Financial Management (OFM), Veterans Benefits Administration, located in Washington, DC on the Credit Reform Staff. The primary purpose for this position is to perform budgetary analysis and administrative duties in support of budget formulation, justification, presentation, and execution for the VBA Federal credit and life insurance programs.

Duties

Specific duties include: Expert knowledge of principles of Federal budgeting and how VBA interacts with the Department, OMB, and Congress. Formulates and presents multi-year budget estimates for assigned business areas and ancillary programs. Correlates and analyzes large amounts of narrative and statistical material used to justify budget estimates, re-estimates, apportionments, and allotments. Executes the budget for assigned business areas and ancillary programs and ensures the appropriate funding source is used and funding requests are reasonable. Develops and provides technical advice and oversight of complex economic and budget models for use in long-range planning and forecasting of budget estimates for future years. Skill in and ability to interpret complex legislation and regulatory policy guidance to determine the effects of VBA's budget process on veteran's benefits programs and services. Reviews costing benefit analysis, integration of crosscutting and other support plans. Balances business line needs along with other support line needs to ensure minimal adverse impact on any customer. Gathers, extracts, reviews, verifies, and consolidates narrative information and statistical data to formulate a budget request and to provide organizational support. Develops budget estimates and compare figures in existing estimates to determine funding needs. Solves basic and recurring reporting problems encountered in the review, analysis, reconciliation, and consolidation of various reports Responds to budget staff's changing needs and quickly understand what is wanted and needed. Expert ability to use sound judgment and be able to make decisions in relatively short time frames, often under extreme pressure to provide technical advice to VBA leaders and to complete quickly budget documents. Ensures sensitive or embargoed documents are safely secured. Maintains effective review, liaison, and coordination to assure ongoing internal control of all program and administrative functions for which responsible (e.g., VA audit support). Develops cost or caseload data for legislative estimates; defend and justify such estimates; verify accuracy of estimates subsequently to legislative enactment of changes in the law. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. The grade progression for this position is GS-14 . Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8 am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Flexible Telework: Available Position Description/PD# 41532-0 Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:01/03/2024. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees, former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, or a current federal employee applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment must meet time in grade requirements. 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. NOTE: This does not apply to Non-Federal Applicants, or applicants applying for consideration under Non-Competitive Authority (i.e.... "30% or more Disability", VRA, and/or Schedule A). To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-13 Grade Level: Applicants must also have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is defined as work that involves: in depth data collection, transformation, visualization, and calculation using Microsoft Excel and R programming; experience in the implementation of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990; experience with the OMB and Congressional budget processes to develop or edit funding justifications and reports; analysis and performance of complex assignments to determine the impact on VA's budget requests for Federal loan and life insurance programs; provision of expert budgetary advice to management that impact VA Federal loan and life insurance payments; and experience in interpreting complex legislation and regulatory policy guidance in accordance with the Federal budget process as outlined in OMB Circular No. A-11. The incumbent must accurately and clearly communicate their data analysis results. Volunteer Experience: 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: Work is typically performed in an adequately lighted and climate-controlled business office setting. There is occasional noise from normal office equipment. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Lauranetta Hyman
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]