This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), with one vacancy in Boulder, CO. This position is also announced under vacancy number OAR CSL-24-12508798-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Budget Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Develop and execute spending plans based upon current and projected actuals. Provide written and verbal advice and guidance on matters of budget preparation, execution, and unfunded requirements. Prepare and/or review obligation documents to ensure adherence to spending plans and identify adjustments to baseline spending plans if necessary, as well as coordinate and complete spend plan adjustments as required. Assist in the preparation of senior management summaries or narrative responses to budget inquiries and/or assigned action items and maintain control of actual obligations vs monthly and quarterly plans, by budget line item, object class, and total. Prepare detailed monthly review information of fund status and identify and report obligation and cost variances. Investigate and determine explanations for monthly variances between financial plans and actual obligations. Propose corrections to adjust for operational changes as necessary and review status reports to assure correct obligations, as well as identify and initiate corrections for erroneous entries. Prepare obligation documents and bill payment actions in coordination with technical experts and coordinate for signatures and transmission to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Finance in accordance with internal policies and deadlines, including Intragovernmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) policy and procedures. Analyze, review, and revise budget estimates, justification statements, and execution plans submitted by office programs. Review, approve, disapprove, and recommend the amount and timing of allotments of funds to programs. Analyze programs evaluating proposed plans, make recommendations based on research and advise and direct others. Utilize automated systems to input, review, and analyze cost data for budget planning and execution, communicate budgetary issues with management, staff and external organizations, and provide recommendations for priorities for use of financial resources. Ensure that budget documents form the proper foundation for budget limitations imposed by Congress or other authorities as they relate to reprogramming, program execution and reporting, and financial management controls. Ensure detailed expenditures on external projects are tracked and evaluated and reports are created and maintained to ensure they are consistent with government regulations for reimbursable projects. Develop budget operating plans, labor projections, coordinate and process procurement actions, and inter-agency agreements for the office, as well as work with the agency's budget office, other program office budget analysts, business managers, lab management, and program staff to execute the budget. Assist research investigators in preparing and submitting proposals.

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 EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. 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-3 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Participating in performing budget execution or administration involving the monitoring of obligations and expenditures of a budget; Performing comparative analysis between program plans and budgetary data; and Identifying budget issues or discrepancies using budgetary data from financial management systems. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 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 equivalent to that 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.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

• 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

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]