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ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
Naval Sea Systems Command
Department of the Navy
GS-11/12 Pay Grade(Career Ladder)
Entry salary: $62,107 | Full performance (GS-12): up to $96,770
Career ladder: Start at GS-11 and advance to GS-12 with experience.
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a financial team in a naval warfare center, where you'll analyze budgets, track spending, and create reports to help leaders make smart decisions about money and operations.
You'll guide junior staff, ensure everything follows rules, and keep projects on track financially.
It's a great fit for someone with experience in government or business finance who enjoys problem-solving and mentoring others in a structured military environment.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience at GS-11/12 level or equivalent in financial management, including resource allocation and budget execution analysis
- Ability to perform qualitative and quantitative assessments of financial programs and business operations
- Experience providing advice to leadership on financial effectiveness and regulatory compliance
- Skills in organizing, planning, scheduling, and prioritizing team workloads with oversight
- Proficiency in monitoring financial activities, developing reports on funds status, expenses, and obligations
- Capability to train and guide program analysts at various levels
- Knowledge of following up on financial actions to ensure regulatory compliance and timelines
Full Job Description
You will serve as an ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL SPECIALIST in the BUSINESS OPERATIONS DIVISION (C03), COMBAT SYSTEMS TEST & EVAL DEPARTMENT of NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER.
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-04 (GS-11/12) pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: performing analyses of financial management programs to conduct qualitative and quantitative assessments of resource allocation, budget execution, and business operations for providing advice to leadership, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing the financial effectiveness of organizational missions.
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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. Major Duties:
- You will serve in the Financial Management Branch, C031 as a Financial Team Lead.
- You will support the C031 Financial Management Branch Manager in the Combat Systems, Test and Evaluation Department (C Dept), Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHO).
- You will report and translate actions, both past and proposed, into meaningful and relevant information for use in the management process and the financial execution of the various areas.
- You will organize, plan, schedule and prioritize the team members' workloads and maintains oversight of work accomplishment.
- You will closely monitor the financial activities within the financial group/program analysts and provide training/guidance to all grade level program analysts.
- You will develop a variety of reports covering the status of funds, expenses, obligations and current funding levels by comparison to submitted budget/task requirements and identifies program/tasks problem areas.
- You will perform follow-up on financial actions (e.g. correspondence or logs) to ensure regulations are followed and time line are met.
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