This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, Office of the Regional Director, Trust Services, Branch of Wildland Fire Management (WFM), Duty Station TBD from Bloomington or Bemidji, MN; and serves as a Fire Budget Analyst that assists in the formulation, justification, administration, and execution of the WFM budget. This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see USA Jobs What are bargaining units?

Duties

Perform budget execution duties in support of the Budget Officer. Upon receipt of sub allotments from the Central Office, incumbent provides for the distribution of allocations to agencies by working with program directors as required. In support of the Office of Budget Management (OBM) and Accounting Management, executes and reconciles fire management funding for regional and agency offices. Responsible for advising program managers or superintendents on the status, availability of funds, and budget processes as it pertains to the regional agencies and programs. Conduct periodic regional or agency financial reviews to ensure rate of total obligations are within approved funding levels and to advise his/her supervisor regarding the status of fund balances, Provide support for program evaluations to determine that the objective set out by program managers in each program area are being met and that the Bureau is meeting its established goals and objectives. Devises appropriate methods for securing information and developing data from such sources as FBMS, on-site investigations, and discussions with operating officials. Make payments to AD-hire emergency workers hired under the emergency pay plan and to vendors, as authorized. Provide technical and routine oversight, to ensure the casual employees and businesses are paid in a timely manner.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Form BIA -4432 must be submitted with the application if claiming Indian Preference.
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Incumbent may be required as an incidental duty to operate a government-owned or leased motor vehicle. If selected, you will be required to complete an Incidental Motor Vehicle Operator's Certification Form.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Administrative and Management Positions for GS-0560 Budget Analysis Series) GS-9: 1 year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level. Specialized experience includes experience in budget exaction process; financial reviews; budget formulation; analyzing problems to identify significant factors; gather pertinent data, and recognize solutions; communicate effectively orally and in writing; has experience with budget as it pertains to Wildland Firefighting and Interagency Incident Business. OR Master's or equivalent graduate degree, related to the position; OR 2 full years of progressively higher level related graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.B. or J.D., in a relative course of study to position. OR Combination of education and experience appropriate to position. GS-11: 1 year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level that included performing complex reviews and analysis of budget and financial data, statistical reports, and financial plans; compiling budgetary and financial data, reconciliation of funds; budget formulation and justification, analyzing current funding estimates with prior year expenditures; preparing special reports as required; identifying discrepancies or deviations in projections and making recommendations for correction; and experience working with budgets pertaining to Wildland Firefighting and Interagency Incident Business. OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, related to the position; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level related graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., if related All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date. Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Contacts

• Address BIA Strategic Recruitment - Trust 301 NW 6th Oklahoma City, OK 73012 US
• Name: Strategic Recruitment-Trust
• Email: [email protected]