This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) with one vacancy in Boulder, CO.

Duties

As a Budget Analyst, you will perform the following duties: - Administer overall budget within the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL). Utilize knowledge of budgetary and financial operation to perform a full range of budgetary functions and duties associated with all phases of the budget process to include detailed budget analysis and reporting, oversight and completion of the year-end closeout process. Ensure the proper execution of budget operating plans and allotments. - Provide advice to senior management on budget limitations, program requirements, and directives. Apply specific budgetary rules, regulations, principles, and procedures associated with all phases of budget formulation and execution. Analyze program and budget guidance and instructions to determine impact upon operations. Contribute to and coordinate budget policy and guidance for the lab. Direct attention to funding problems and recommend solution for resolution. - Track and maintain program spending plans, budgets, actual expenditures, funding sources, and partner funds. Oversee/administer procurement activity for the laboratory. Serve as a Funds Certifying Official for all procurement requests. Monitor the technical effort performance under contracts. Extract and manipulate data from databases and non-automated sources to establish and maintain a cost database.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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, religious; 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. To qualify at the ZA-03 or GS-11 grade level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-02 or GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Providing day-to-day office management, administrative and clerical support to staff or management, not limited to making travel arrangement, maintaining calendars and schedules, coordinating meetings and conferences; and - Reviewing and preparing various written administrative guidance to include communication protocols, controlled correspondence, policies and procedures. -OR- EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. -OR- COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience as described above. Note: Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for the GS-11.

Education

• College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.
• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.
• Transcripts--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Applicant Inquiries
• Email: [email protected]