PROGRAM ANALYST

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The primary purpose of this position is: Serve as expert analyst and senior staff authority for a major, high-dollar Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Security Assistance (SA) portfolio.

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Administration and Management Positions, Management and Program Analysis Series, 0343.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-12, or equivalent in other pay systems.

Examples of specialized experience includes knowledge of international agreements; U.S.

statutes, regulations, policies, and procedures governing Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Security Assistance (SA) programs, applied with delegated authority to serve as the principal expert analyst for programs of exceptional scope, complexity, and strategic importance, including the translation of legislative and national-level policy requirements into executable program frameworks and implementation models used by multiple organizations.

Comprehensive knowledge of administrative, acquisition, and programmatic laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to FMS/SA programs, sufficient to evaluate proposed, new, or revised legislation and assess projected impacts on program governance, resources, execution, and strategic outcomes, and to develop authoritative analytical recommendations for senior leadership decision-making.

FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in­-grade requirements to be considered eligible.

One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks.

NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Expert knowledge of U.S.

statutes, international agreements, and national-level policies governing security cooperation and foreign military sales, including the ability to translate legislative and policy requirements into executable program frameworks and implementation models.

Expert knowledge of advanced qualitative and quantitative analytical methods sufficient to design and conduct extremely broad, open-ended studies of complex programs and management processes where scope, objectives, and methodologies are developed as analysis progresses.

Expert knowledge of program governance and enterprise program management principles, including budgeting, financial management, acquisition, logistics, contracting coordination, and performance evaluation, as applied across multiple organizations or programs.

Expert knowledge of the political, military, economic, and security factors affecting international defense programs and the ability to integrate these factors into enterprise-level analytical conclusions and recommendations.

Ability to plan, organize, and direct interdisciplinary analytical teams conducting complex studies, including assigningwork, determining methodologies, integrating findings, and presenting authoritative conclusions to senior leadership.

Ability to establish precedent-setting analytical interpretations, guidance, or implementation approaches that are relied upon by multiple organizations to resolve complex programmatic or policy issues.

Ability to negotiate and influence senior leaders and stakeholders to accept and implement expert analytical recommendations involving substantioal procedural change, or competing organizational interests.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work.

You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

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

Plans and directs management actions in support of synchronizing the sales and transfer of military equipment to partner nations and allies.

Leads and conducts extremely broad, open-ended analytical and management studies of FMS/SA programs, policies, and management processes where objectives, scope, and methodologies are not fully defined at the outset and are refined as analysis progresses.

Exercises delegated expert authority to make analytical determinations and establish conclusions that are implemented without further technical or policy review, except where statutory or executive-level approval is required.