Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25.

This position is located at Fort Meade, Maryland. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

This position is in the Professional category at the Senior level within the CES Occupational Structure. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by providing budgetary advisory and planning services to a federal organization to include researching financial issues and providing recommendations; interpreting regulations and policies to manage and advise on organization budget programs; monitoring the status of funds obligation and expenditure for programs; and preparing budgeting reports.

Major Duties:

• Works with technical/functional SMEs in broad-based analyses required to define and document the Command's inputs for long-range, strategic fiscal planning processes.
• These authoritative inputs are provided in various forms, including executive briefings, Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL), strategic business plans, Program Objective Memorandum (POM), Congressional Justification Book (CJB).
• These are not simply fiscal planning documents, but strategic planning submissions, which have in common their broad scope and the need to provide quantitative documentation that executive-level resource managers can use.
• In support of these strategic plans' development, leads the team in planning and performs analytical studies of the scope and complexity noted above.
• Provides expert support for the Commander and leadership team's efforts to lead DOD cyberspace program partners in devising long-range (i.e., five-to-10-year) strategic, priorities, and plans for the cyberspace program.
• Collaborative program planning is particularly vital in the current fiscal environment, in which the DOD (like other U.S. Government agencies) must demonstrate that it is applying available resources to best effect.
• As the functional authority for cyberspace fiscal analysis and planning, provides analytical expertise and leadership for the team's development of mathematical and statistical methods, including automated analysis tools and models/simulations.