Summary

This position is located at the Peace Corps headquarters, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Budget and Analysis. The incumbent oversees a significant organizational component of Agency programs for its budgetary and financial requirements. The incumbent's duties include budget formulation, execution, and analysis, related external presentation activities, and general oversight of funds control processes with minimal supervisory support

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Duties

The Budget Analyst Performs The Following Major Duties

• Budget Execution Oversight:
• Performs budget execution work overseeing a significant organizational component, including the coordination of complex fund control activities including reviewing budgetary policies, analytical methods, and regulatory procedures. Projects and analyzes the potential effects of budgetary actions on program viability and attainment of program objectives. Monitors and reports on the rate of expenditures of funds. Notifies management officials of obligation trends, including the over-obligation and under-obligation of funds by specific program offices or organizational components. Recommends approval or disapproval of requests for allotments and other similar funding requests. Considers the financial and workload implications of complex budget issues, such as resources necessary to support the needs of changing agency goals and objectives, the timing of obligations and expenditures in relation to the federal budget cycle and the overall availability of funds.
• Recommends approval/disapproval of requests for budget allotments in relation to a significant organization component with minimal supervisory oversight. Plans, directs and executes actions required to formulate, develop, coordinate and implement policies and guidelines governing the designated funding for assigned programs. Demonstrates mastery of budget- related laws, regulations, policies, precedents, methods, and techniques. Exercises control and surveillance over funding matters and junior analysts to assure successful attainment of program objectives. Distributes funds to various program areas based on general guidance from CFO leadership, availability of funds, and obligation plans. Formulates annual and multi-year budget estimates with multi-appropriations. Recommends incorporating new financial management operations into the organization, as required.
• Budget Formulation Oversight:
• Administers the formulation and justification of the budget and serves as a technical authority on budget formulation for a significant organizational component or program. Oversees the formulation of budget estimates and justifications for conflicting program and budgetary requirements, such as reduction in budget authority coupled with expansion of services. Interprets and assesses the impact of new and revised Congressional legislation on the formulation of budgets. Develops new methods and techniques of budgeting for the forecasting of long-range funding needs. Reviews, analyzes, revises, and recommends approval, disapproval, or modification of budget requests and justifications. Receives requests from program offices for components of the agency budget. Analyzes, combines, and consolidates budget estimates into a budget document that reflects the balanced, multi-year funding needs of the agency. Services the agency managers as an authoritative source of advice on formulation of budget estimates and guidance.
• Budget Approval Process Management:
• Reviews and evaluates information and data concerning the budget for a significant organizational component and prepares budget presentations for top management officials. Ties together the budgetary work of program managers, subject-matter experts, and other budget analysts for presentation to the senior leadership. Develops effective strategies for managing funding for significant organizational components and compiles the data and materials to present budget strategies. Reviews and evaluates the budget presentation data and materials to ensure that the agency priorities and objectives have been addressed. Presents budget proposals to top officials for approval of requested funding levels. Attends meetings with senior managers and technical staff to resolve difficulties regarding budgetary and fiscal responsibilities and provides authoritative budgetary and fiscal guidance ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory policy.
  

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Please read this announcement in its entirety prior to submitting your application.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen.
• You must be at least 18 years of age.
• All Federal employees are required to have federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so. For additional information, see www.sss.gov.
• You must complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
• You must go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. These documents must be unexpired originalor certified copies.
• You must successfully complete a background security investigation with favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet this requirement will be grounds for employment termination.
• Prior to employment, and in compliance with statutes 5 USC 3322 and 22 USC 2507b, Peace Corps will conduct a check of Peace Corps records for both Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and former Peace Corps employees.
• All new employees are required to certify and submit a state of understanding acknowledging adherence to the Peace Corps condition of employment prior to day 1 of employment with the Peace Corps.
• This position requires a public trust background investigation.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.
• A one-year probationary period is required.
• The initial appointment to this position cannot exceed five years.
• This position is eligible for additional reappointments, per 22 USC
• 2506 (a)(8). The initial appointment is a term of five years and subsequent reappointments are in terms of up to five years.
  
  

Qualifications

All qualification requirements must be met by 01/19/2025 (the closing date of the announcement). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To ensure full credit for your experience, please indicate the start and end dates (month, day, and year) of employment, the number of hours worked per week, and the location of employment in your resume. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

Specialized Experience

This vacancy is being announced at two grade levels:

FP-03

Specialized Experience at the FP-03 (GS-13): To be minimally qualified for this position at the FP-03 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression, FP-04 or GS-12 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience with budget- related laws, regulations, policies, precedents, methods, and techniques; Experience administering the formulation and justification of the budget and budget formulation for a significant organizational component or program; Experience developing effective strategies for managing funding for significant organizational components and compiling the data and materials to present budget strategies.

FP-02

Specialized Experience at the FP-02 (GS-14): To be minimally qualified for this position at the FP-02 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression, FP-03 or GS-13 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience with budget- related laws, regulations, policies, precedents, methods, and techniques; Experience administering the formulation and justification of the budget and budget formulation for a significant organizational component or program; Experience developing effective strategies for managing funding for significant organizational components and compiling the data and materials to present and communicating and or briefing budget strategies to internal and external senior leadership. Experience leading teams in budget planning and execution activities, and providing technical advice or guidance to a variety of audiences at varying organizational levels on budgetary matters (e.g., management, peers, support staff).

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Time-in-Grade (TIG) Requirements

Current or Formal Federal employees, including current Peace Corps employees, must meet applicable TIG requirements to be considered eligible. To meet TIG for positions above the FP-09 (GS-05) grade level, you must have served at least one year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade (or equivalent) in the normal line of progression for the position to which you are applying.

All current or former Federal employees (including internal employees) must provide a copy of their SF-50 (you may need to submit more than one), "Notice of Personnel Action" that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF-50 must include your position, title, series, grade, step, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).

Please Note

• Past experience that satisfies the Specialized Experience MUST be well documented within your resume. Failure to provide this information in your resume with corresponding start and end dates (month, day, and year) of employment, the number of hours worked per week, and location of employment may result in disqualification from further consideration.
• Specialized Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector, or through volunteer work done with National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) or other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
• One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.
• Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site.
• Peace Corps employees are employed using the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale. The FP pay plan does not follow the same structure as the GS pay plan. In the FP pay plan, as the grade-level numbers decrease the level/pay for the position increases. The FP-09 is the lowest entry-level grade and the FP-01 is the highest senior-level grade.
  
  

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

The minimum and maximum salaries listed on this announcement do not include locality pay. Salary will be adjusted in accordance with the locality pay of the duty location after selection.

Peace Corps Information

• This is a federal civilian job in the Excepted Service. Peace Corps employees are paid on the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale.
• Telework eligible positions do not guarantee telework. See Peace Corps Manual Section 623 for agency policy regarding telework.
• Remote-work eligible positions do not guarantee remote work. See Peace Corps Manual Section 633 for agency policy regarding remote work.
• The Peace Corps uses E-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
• This is a drug-free workplace and we promote a drug-free environment.
• Additional hiring needs may be filled through this vacancy.
  
  

Intelligence Background Information

Peace Corps Manual Section 611 is applicable to this position:

• This prohibits the employment of certain persons previously engaged in intelligence activities or connected with intelligence agencies within the past 10 years.
• If you have ever worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), you are not eligible for employment at the Peace Corps in any capacity, and you should not apply for employment.
• Acceptance of employment with Peace Corps precludes employment by certain intelligence organizations for a specific period of time, determined by the employing agency, after Peace Corps employment ceases.
  
  

Applicants who are found to be otherwise qualified will be required to submit a completed Intelligence Background Questionnaire upon request, indicating whether the applicant has been involved in or has had any connection with intelligence activities or related work and, if so, the nature and dates of his or her involvement. Failure to meet this requirement will result in disqualification from further consideration. If you have any other type of possible intelligence connection, your application will not be further considered until you submit this form.

Except when the CIA or the National Security Agency (NSA) is involved (see below), if your connection with an Intelligence Agency involves an immediate family member who works or has worked in intelligence, the immediate family member should complete the form, not the applicant. Usually relying on memory is sufficient to answer most if not all of the questions.

If you have an immediate family member who works or has worked for the CIA, you should not give them this form to complete. Please contact your relative in person-not by phone, email, social networking, or any other means that is not in person- and ask him or her to contact the Office of General Counsel at the CIA.

If you or an immediate family member have been employed by or associated with the NSA, you or your family member must contact the NSA Prepublication Review Office at 443-634-4095.

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Office of the Chief Financial Officer

1275 First St. NE

Washington, DC 20002

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