This position is located in the Veterans Benefits Administration, Office of Financial Management, Discretionary Budget Staff, Planning and Programming Division. The Planning and Programming Division provides a systematic approach to developing the Veterans Benefits Administration's (VBA) resource needs to achieve our mission and goals.

Duties

Specific duties include: Uses in-depth knowledge of the Federal budget process to create a balanced, time phased allocation of resources and determination of requirements. Analyzes and evaluates, on a quantitative and/or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of proposed outyear resource allocation on programs or operations in meeting established goals, measures, and objectives. Plans, coordinates, integrates and executes resourcing strategies for programs aimed at highlighting and improving mission effectiveness. Develops recommendations to change the way resource requirements are validated, prioritized and funded and the projected impact upon Administration programs and resources. Develops and implements programming guidance, validates outyear requirements, recommends allocation of outyear resources and assesses risk. Ensures that the strategic goals and objectives of the SECVA and the USB VBA are communicated to team members and are reflected in the outyear funding and requirements framework created by the Programming Division annually. Maintains, adjusts, and recommends long range plans as required by changes or evolution in mission and objectives. Develops and provides briefings and position papers on the long-term impacts of current and near-term financial decisions. Represents the OFM Discretionary Budget Staff at senior level meetings within and outside of VBA, other agencies, contractors, and members of other administrations in interpreting and applying policies and requirements and in using knowledge and skills to negotiate important issues involving mission workload reporting, resource utilization and allocation, long range planning, and organizational effectiveness. Completes analyses of data and identifies programmatically significant findings as they relate to the development of long-range resource requirements. Develops recommendations for resource/budgetary process improvements to promote more effective and efficient resource management decisions. Participates in discussions, meetings, conferences and conference calls with agency administrators, senior subject matter and technical personnel, and other federal agency officials to secure and provide information; investigates facts; presents conclusions, recommendations, and alternatives; obtains concurrence; develops alternate courses of actions; and mutually resolves problems. Trains or arranges for the training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects. Provides or arranges for specific administrative or technical training necessary for accomplishment of individual and team tasks. Articulates and communicates assignments and projects to team members, identifying actionable events, milestones, deadlines and time frames for completion. Works with VBA Business Lines and Staff Offices to identify, address and isolate resource problems. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst; 41586-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized 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:06/17/2024. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level. Mastery of the concepts, principles, practices and techniques of program analysis, to analyze and evaluate previous, current and projected operating programs/budget requirements for potential effectiveness in meeting their objectives. Mastery knowledge of all aspects of the Federal budget process and the legislative budget process. Mastery knowledge to design and conduct wide-ranging analytical and evaluative studies and reviews which employ a wide range of analytical and statistical methods and techniques to assess and improve the resource framework. 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 primarily sedentary but involves a personal computer, so a degree of manual dexterity and visual acuity is required to utilize these tools. Some physical effort is required for the incumbent to carry a laptop, reference books, working papers, and similar items to and from meetings. A moderate amount of standing and walking is required in getting to and from meeting places away from the worksite. No unique physical demands are required. 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/.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Brittani Freeman
• Phone: (443) 354-0767
• Email: [email protected]