Job opening: Departmental Budget Officer
Salary: $147 649 - 221 900 per year
Published at: Nov 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Treasury Departmental Budget Director leads a variety of budgetary activities for the Department, implementing the Department's strategic plan through performance-based budgeting providing oversight of budget execution and reporting are consistent with budget laws and regulations. Provides policy advice and program analysis to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget. Advises top level Department officials and bureau heads to promote strong financial management outcomes.
Duties
1. Leads budget formulation for the Department. Advises and assists senior Treasury officials, including the Assistant Secretary (Management)/Chief Financial Officer, Assistant Secretaries, the Deputy Secretary, and the Secretary in the formulation of budgetary policy and performance budgeting processes. Provides performance budgeting standards, procedures, and guidance to bureau heads and budgetary officials. Establishes standards, procedures, practices, and controls for the development of the Department's annual performance budget requests. Reviews proposed policies for soundness and alignment with other Treasury and OMB policies and directives.
2. Leads the Department's efforts to implement the strategic plan through performance-based budgeting and quarterly performance reviews. This includes integrating performance with the budget, presenting the Department's outcome goals, output targets, and resource requests in the context of past performance results, aligning budget accounts and program/activities to support achieving program targets, fully costing out budget resources to mission accounts and activities, clearly documenting program effectiveness and relationship to budget decisions, and leading the development and delivery of regular quarterly performance reviews.
3. Works with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer to deliver sound budgetary reporting including DATA Act reporting. Provides strong oversight for budget execution across the Department and manages the apportionment process. Manages high intensity, short duration projects directed at rapid problem solving, data collection, analysis and recommendations for senior level management.
5. Directs staff in analyzing appropriations for accomplishment of program objectives, such as program goals, methods of operation, organization, staffing, utilization of facilities and equipment, and other considerations, with a key focus on performance results. Reviews work products for technical adequacy, consistency and adherence to directions. Provides guidance and feedback to the staff examiners concerning the budget oversight/monitoring role they play for their respective bureau accounts.
6. Assists in preparing the Secretary for appropriations hearings. Works closely with Legislative Affairs to represent the Department before the appropriations committees. Provides advice and assistance to Treasury officials on matters relating to appropriation systems and procedures.
7. Maintains liaison with other federal Departments and agencies. Represents the Department on performance-budgeting matters before the Office of Management and Budget, and committees of both houses of the Congress. Represents the Department on interagency groups and conferences.
8. Assumes a leadership role in support of affirmative action, diversity and ethics programs.
Qualifications
Qualifications: As a basic requirement, applicants must possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications listed below. Typically, qualified applicants will have gained experience of this nature at or above the (GS)-15 grade level or its equivalent in the public or private sector. To be qualified for this position, your resume must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as:
Directing the work of an organizational unit
Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects
Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance.
Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions.
Failure to meet the basic qualification requirement and address all Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications will result in your application being disqualified. The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. All applicants that are not already QRB certified, must submit a separate written narrative addressing the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear and concise, emphasizing your scope and level of responsibility, the complexity of programs managed, your initiatives and accomplishments, and the results of your actions.
The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs:
Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision
Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building
Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility
Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management
Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating
Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Continual Learning, Written Communication, Integrity/Honesty, Public Service Motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narratives.
When completing Executive Core Competencies, applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide.
Challenge - Describe a specific problem or goal.
Context - Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
Action - Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
Result - Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.
Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPMs Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements.
MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative that addresses each of the MTQs separately. The narrative must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Applicants who fail to adhere to the one (1) page per MTQ limit will be disqualified and no longer considered for the position. In addition to the ECQs, applicants must possess the following technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position. You must fully address each MTQ to be rated for further consideration.
MTQ 1: Demonstrated executive knowledge of and experience in budget policy making at a Departmental level including developing and presenting recommendations to senior level officials, representing the Department in interactions with OMB and appropriations committees on budget formulation and execution issues, a strong understanding of the Budget Control Act and related budget laws, and preparing witnesses to testify before appropriations committees.
MTQ 2: Demonstrated experience in the use of performance metrics in budget policy making, guided by the Department's strategic plan, including managing a quarterly performance review or similar process.
MTQ 3: Demonstrated experience in budget execution oversight including apportionments, funds control, operating plans, and addressing general execution issues (e.g., sequestration).
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
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