Budget Analyst (Recent Graduate)
What you'd do
This vacancy is for a Budget Analyst (Recent Graduate) in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce.
Major duties
As a Budget Analyst (Recent Graduate), you will perform the following duties: Translates organizational needs and objectives, by line item and object class into budget dollars and the funding actions required to accomplish them. Works with senior Budget Analysts to forecast budget operations and associated justifications on a regular predetermined cycle. Provides information and assistance to program managers on matters such as the requirements and acceptability of routine budget documents in accordance with prescribed formats, templates and guidance. Prepares background material for use in briefing officials as it relates to an organization's budget. Provides guidance on budgeting and related information to conduct analyses, reviews and special studies of assigned areas of an organization's budget or related information. Compiles narrative and statistical material to prepare supporting documentation concerning an assigned budget for use in briefing higher level officials. Provides financial information to program managers to identify a need for reprogramming funds and make recommendations. Assists in preparing supporting data, documentation, narrative and quantitative budget justification estimates and statements for supervisor review in accordance with operating procedures. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Budget Analyst (Recent Graduate) GS-0560-9 FPL 12 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.
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/ Students with a transcript with a degree confer date on or before the closing date of this announcement will be considered for the Recent Graduate Program. Graduation / expect graduation date MUST be indicated on your resume. 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 be eligible for appointment, you must be a recent graduate who has completed, within the previous two years, a qualifying associate's, bachelor's, master's, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree, or certificate from a qualifying, accredited educational institution with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale. A valid certificate program is post-secondary education in a qualifying educational institution that is equivalent to at least one academic year of full-time study, as defined by your university. The certificate program must also be a part of an accredited college-level, technical, vocational, trade, or business school curriculum. To qualify at the GS-9 level, you must meet one of the following qualification requirements: A. You have completed a master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, if related. OR B. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Gathering information and statistical data for use in budget requests and reports; and Performing budget formulation, execution and administration work to monitor obligations incurred and the actual expenditures of funds; and Researching budgetary data from source documents, automated financial/budgetary systems, financial records; and Reports for use in preparing budget estimates and annual financial plans. -OR- C. COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of post baccalaureate education and experience that meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position.
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