This position is in the Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research (OAR), Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) with 1 vacancy in Boulder, CO. This position is also announced under vacancy number OAR GSL-25-12576083-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: Apply knowledge and skills in the Federal budget and financial operations in Department of Commerce / National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (DOC/NOAA) policies and program objectives. Track and maintain program spending plans, budgets, actual expenditures, funding sources, and partner funds. Perform analytical budget duties; analyze prior year spending; and formulate Budget Estimates. Execute budget analysis, planning, and execution; budget methods and techniques; fiscal funds control and procedures; acquisition, procurement, and fiscal year end closeout procedures; financial management system; administrative policies and procedures, support systems; spreadsheets, word processing, and database Software. Perform various types of cost analysis and planning; extract and manipulate data from databases and non-automated sources to establish costs and obligations; reconcile reports and take appropriate action to resolve discrepancies, work with Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and NOAA Finance to have errors corrected; solicit information from program and project managers in order to prepare variance explanations in Budget Operating Plans, when necessary; complete funds transfers.

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-3 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assisting with budget execution or administration related to the monitoring of obligations and expenditures of a budget; Analyzing budgetary data to ensure funding needs are met; and Analyzing budgetary data utilizing financial management systems, in order to identify budget issues or discrepancies. 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

There is no positive education requirement for this position.

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

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.

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]