Management and Program Analyst
What you'd do
This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS), with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD.
Major duties
As a Management and Program Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Serve as the senior Management and Program Analyst, providing expert analytical guidance to the Office of Coast Survey (OCS). Serve as technical expert and advisor to senior leadership, whose recommendations are accepted without substantive change. Support a variety of highly complex projects and staff actions with program and administrative evaluation and analysis. Develop, recommend, and implement program and administrative policies. Research and investigate new or improved business and management practices, and develop or modify program policies, regulations, goals, and objectives. Develop expert analysis reconciliations of accounting transactions. Provide expert solutions to known and potential deficiencies relating to current business processes. Conduct program management oversight, ensuring the program is on schedule and meeting milestones and deliverables. Track bi-weekly invoices and ensure they are processed in accordance with agency and office policies. Conduct audits of Purchase Card and Contracting Officer Representative (COR) files, ensuring compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulations. Serve as a COR with delegated procurement authority. Oversee contract activities, solving issues and ensuring technical requirements are met. Lead staff through the entire procurement process, which includes developing Statements of Work, filing documentation, writing memorandums, utilizing a government purchase card, performing purchase card reconciliation, processing invoices, and conducting cradle-to-grave contract administration and closeouts according to established guidelines. Manage the procurement of supplies and services, simultaneously developing knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations Simplified Acquisitions Procedures, Commerce Acquisition Regulations, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) procurement policies and procedures. NOTE: These duties are described at the full performance level of the ZA-4; the ZA-3 is developmental leading to such performance.
What you need to qualify
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/ EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 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 ZA-03 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-02 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Ensuring project timelines and program objectives are tracked and completed to meet milestones or deliverables; and Assisting in the verification of all purchase requests and providing adequate documentation for approval. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of successfully completed graduate-level education and specialized experience may be used to meet the total experience requirements. Note: Only graduate-level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience. To qualify at the ZA-4 or GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Providing assessments or reports of recommended strategies for better program function and effectiveness to higher personnel or management; Developing, recommending, or implementing policies for a program or project; and Providing contract management support to include monitoring contractor performance and providing advice or guidance for procurements.
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