People in the federal Management and Program Analysis Series, series code 0343, work as analysts and advisers to agency management. They examine whether government programs and operations are getting results, or how productively and efficiently a federal agency is run, or both.
The work calls for knowing what an agency's programs and activities actually consist of, along with its mission, its policies and what it is trying to achieve. It also calls for knowing management principles and processes, plus the analytical and evaluative methods used to assess how a program is being developed or carried out and to make an organization work better and more efficiently. Some of these jobs also ask for a basic grasp of budget and financial management as it applies to planning programs and goals over the long term.
Analysts need skill in gathering facts and investigating questions, in speaking and writing clearly, and in building presentations and reports.