Management Analyst

The position serves as a senior resource for administrative operations providing guidance on complex management and operational matters, coordinating resources across organizational boundaries, and ensuring services are delivered efficiently, consistently, and in accordance with applicable federal regulations, and Departmental policies, procedures, and requirements.

As a Management Analyst, you will: GRADE 13 Budget & Financial Execution: Coordinate the monitoring and analysis of organizational budget spend plans, identify potential funding shortfalls, and serve as a fund certifier to ensure obligations align with approved plans and federal statutory requirements. Management Analysis: Conduct independent studies, surveys, and assessments of administrative processes or organizational structures to identify operational deficiencies and recommend efficiency improvements to the supervisor. Administrative Coordination: Administer operating-level personnel operations (including position management and staffing projections), coordinate logistical resource requirements (such as office space and property accountability), and serve as the organization's Training Officer. Problem Solving: Perform sensitive troubleshooting assignments under standard supervisory oversight, resolving management problems and emerging issues across organizational boundaries. GRADE 14 Strategic Financial Direction: Serve as a recognized financial authority and senior advisor to executive leadership on short- and long-term budget planning, enterprise-wide resource allocation strategies, and multi-million-dollar fund certification. Enterprise-Wide Program Evaluation: Independently plan, schedule, and lead massive organizational evaluations or high-impact process assessments, utilizing strategic data and changing management theories to establish fundamental management policies that impact agency goals. Strategic Portfolio Oversight: Provide senior-level oversight for overarching administrative portfolios, including complex workforce transitions, labor relations compliance, large-scale facilities management, and enterprise professional development programs. Autonomous Troubleshooting: Formulate, recommend, and implement critical, high-priority management approaches and resource strategies with complete autonomy, serving as an expert interpreter of regulatory guidance whose recommendations are normally accepted without significant change. The ideal candidate is a highly autonomous professional who serves as a recognized authority on complex federal administrative, budgetary, and operational programs. The candidate has expert experience in federal budget formulation, execution, and fund certification, alongside a proven ability to provide strategic financial counsel to executive leadership. The candidate is an expert evaluator who can independently conduct enterprise-wide program studies and implement strategic change management solutions to optimize efficiency. Additionally, the candidate brings comprehensive oversight experience in workforce planning/human resources management, complex logistics, and organization-wide professional development. Operating with complete independence and diplomatic tact, they excel at resolving high-priority, sensitive organizational challenges across structural boundaries.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance the organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service. GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD: This position involves travel. A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only. PCS/RELOCATION/RECRUITMENT: Permanent Change of Station (PCS), Relocation, and Recruitment Incentive authorization varies by position/selection and a service agreement may be required. PROBATIONARY PERIOD: You must complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed). SUPERVISORY PROBATIONARY PERIOD: You must complete a one-year supervisory probationary period (unless already completed). TIME-IN-GRADE: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade in the competitive or excepted service in the executive branch to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions contained in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.