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Management and Program Analyst

Bureau of Industry and Security

Department of Commerce

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Location

Salary

$102,415 - $158,322

per year

Closes

March 25, 2026

GS-12 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves advising on human resources matters like hiring, pay, and workforce planning for a government agency focused on industry security.

You'll analyze policies, recommend fixes for HR issues, and help improve processes to support the team's goals.

It's a good fit for someone with HR experience who enjoys consulting, researching problems, and communicating solutions in a federal setting.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 (for GS-12) or GS-12 (for GS-13) in federal service
  • Expertise in applying human capital principles, laws, and regulations in at least three areas: recruitment, staffing, classification, compensation, workforce planning, or personnel action processing
  • Experience developing written guidance, standard operating procedures, and policies on HR topics
  • Skill in researching human capital or workforce issues and communicating recommendations to internal and external stakeholders
  • Ability to gather, validate, and analyze HR data from multiple systems (for GS-13 level)
  • Strong advisory skills for employees and managers on HR requirements, methods, and procedures
  • Proficiency in monitoring, reviewing, and interpreting policies, regulations, and directives for impact on programs

Full Job Description

This vacancy is for a Management and Program Analyst in the Bureau of Industry and Security within the Department of Commerce.

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-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series 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 GS-12 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: Serving as a consultant and providing technical advisory services in the application of human capital principles, laws, and regulations in at least 3 of the following areas: recruitment, staffing, classification, compensation, workforce planning and personnel action processing; and Developing written guidance, standard operating procedures and policies on various human resources topics; and Researching human capital/workforce issues and communicating recommendations with internal and external stakeholders in resolving issues.

To qualify at the GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: Serving as a consultant and providing technical advisory services in the application of human capital principles, laws, and regulations in at least 3 of the following areas: recruitment, staffing, classification, compensation, workforce planning and personnel action processing; and Developing written guidance, standard operating procedures and policies on various human resources topics; and Researching human capital/workforce issues and communicating recommendations with internal and external stakeholders in resolving issues; and Gathering, validating, and analyzing human resources data from multiple systems to respond to HR data calls.

Major Duties:

As a Management and Program Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Advises employees and managers on human capital requirements, methods and procedures.

Monitors, analyzes and reviews comprehensive procedures related to personnel and acts as a liaison for assigned offices.

Recommends solutions in resolving Human Capital issues which impact the organization. Makes suggestions to supervisor for process improvements.

Reviews and interprets new or existing policies, directives, instructions, regulations, and delegations of authority for potential impact on major program objectives, operating policies, work operations and progress and applies them to various Human Capital matters.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/18/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/19/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: BIS-OC-DHA-12907514