This position is located in the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), Office of Financial Management (OFM), Discretionary Budget Staff, Budget Formulation Division. The incumbent performs a wide variety of administrative and analytical duties connected with the budget formulation and presentation of VBA's General Operating Expenses (GOE) budget.

Duties

Specific duties include: Develop and prepare discretionary budget estimates, justifications, plans, and cost estimates. Prepare budget submissions covering a complete budgetary cycle. Conduct special studies related to discretionary budget issues and concerns. Conduct evaluations, examinations, or other fact-finding studies to obtain and verify budget requests. Knowledge of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directives. Contribute and recommend changes to the content of manuals, instructions, and forms that affect budget formulation activities. Develop and review budget submissions, presentations, and narratives that justify program needs. Compose documents or correspondence involving complex or technical information, and adapt writing to the audience's level of knowledge. Notify individuals or groups in writing of decisions, challenges, or follow-on actions required. Counsel or advise others on financial and budgetary matters, complex issues, and solutions. Express relevant facts and recommendations in both individual and group meetings. Explain and provide analytical guidance concerning the formulation of program budgets to management, personnel, and customers. Respond to internal, OMB, VA Office of Inspector General (OIG), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Congressional budget questions. 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-12, GS-13 . Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst; GS-0560-11/PD#39090A and GS-0560-12/PD#39089A and GS-0560-13/PD#39088A 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

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:01/30/2024. 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09 level. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. 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-11 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience: Applicants must also have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-9) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves formulating budgets; responsible for coordinating, compiling, reviewing, and analyzing quantitative budget data and justifications. Have experience with routine budget analysis assignments that require the application of well-established budget principles, theories, and concepts. GS-12 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Applicants must also have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-11) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves performance of analytical services in the formulation and presentation of budgets; analysis of a wide range of factors impacting the development and justification of budget requirements; preparation, correlation and analysis of large amounts of narrative and statistical material; application of numerical and statistical methods. GS-13 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Applicants must also have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-12) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as work that involves knowledge of the processes and procedures by which budgets are developed, transmitted, presented, examined by OMB, and reviewed by Congress; developing and presenting budget estimates in support of multi-year program goals, needs assessments and legislative proposals; developing criteria to measure the cost-effectiveness and requirements of assigned budget areas. 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]