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BUDGET ANALYST, GS-0560-14, FPL GS-14 (TERM) (DH) (OPEN CONTINUOUS)
This position is in the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Federal Student Aid (FSA), Technology Directorate (TD). The Technology Directorate provides information technology services for all FSA systems, promoting the effective and secure use of technology to achieve FSA's strategic objectives through sound planning, investments, integrated technology architectures and standards, effective systems development, production support, and cybersecurity services.
This is a term position with a Not to exceed two years which can be extended up to four year with a possibility of being converted to permanent. APPLICATION LIMIT: This is an open continuous announcement with cutoff dates. Applications will be referred based on receipt of application and established cutoff dates as follows: 1st cutoff date: 09/15/2026 2nd cutoff date: 09/22/2026 Last cutoff date: 09/29/2026 We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application. As a BUDGET ANALYST, GS-0560-14, you will be responsible for: - Monitoring, reviewing, analyzing, consolidating, and revising multiple programs' budget estimates, justification statements, cross-program budget impact analyses, budget execution plans, initiative funding prioritizations, and fund executions/expenditures, and preparing reports/briefings that convey key financial facts and trends and/or recommendations for funding adjustments. - Ensuring funds are requested and executed in accordance with annual budget and acquisition plans, by using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze and manage obligations, expenditures, reimbursable orders, and requests for allotments, and by making sound recommendations for reprogramming of funds, as necessary. - Providing qualitative and quantitative evaluations of how effectively FSA's budget programs are operated and overseen. Interpreting and applying relevant laws, regulations, and policies, and offering authoritative guidance and recommendations to FSA leadership on actions needed to maintain or improve compliance and program performance, including resolving complex issues related to annual, multi year, and no year budgets. - Providing authoritative data and meaningful advice/recommendations on the development of annual and long-range funding strategies and funding execution (operational) plans for Federal programs; independently preparing supporting documentation and budget materials required to execute such strategies/plans. - Leading and/or contributing expertise and assistance to FSA Enterprise-level activities that establish, manage, and audit the internal quality control, oversight, and risk-management operations for FSA's budget/finance and technology acquisitions processes and programs; independently preparing supporting documentation and data products required by such efforts.
Requirements
Minimum Qualification Requirements You may meet the minimum qualifications for the GS-14, if you possess the specialize experience, education, or a combination of the two. Specialized Experience for the GS-14 One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-13 performing two (2) out of three (3) of the following duties or work assignments: 1. Experience in a lead role, practically applying knowledge of the Federal or equivalent organizational budget and acquisitions lifecycles and all relevant legal, regulatory, and policy guidance, to the operational and strategic management of budget formulation and execution programs. 2. Experience in evaluating federal or equivalent organizational financial programs and devising policies, procedures, or recommendations for improving their effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and/or ability to deliver organizational strategic goals and objectives. 3. Experience using best-practice methods and systems to manage multiple initiatives' or programs' financial and technology acquisition lifecycle activities, including independently preparing and curating required documentation, developing data-analytic products, and providing meaningful recommendations that align with Agency budget and financial processes while resolving identified challenges, issues, and risks. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) The quality of your experience will be measured by the extent to which you possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs). You do not need to provide separate narrative responses to these KSAs, as they will be measured by your responses to the occupational questionnaire (you may preview the occupational questionnaire by clicking the link at the end of the Evaluations section of this vacancy announcement). 1. Skill in consistently and accurately managing the day-to-day budget formulation and execution work of major / Enterprise-level federal programs with constantly shifting priorities, and effectively communicating complex funding information with a wide variety of finance, acquisition, technology, and business stakeholders. 2. Skill in using a wide range of finance and cost-estimation methods and financial management tools/systems to analyze, author, and manage Federal budget requests and executions over multiple years and multiple programs, to formulate program budgets and ensure executions align with established financial records and/or annual plans. 3. Skill in accurately applying Appropriations laws, Acquisition regulations, technology capital planning and investment control (CPIC) requirements, Federal generally-accepted cost-estimation and accounting procedures, OMB budget and technology Circulars, Memos, and Manuals, and operational execution of the Federal budget lifecycle and Federal financial statement audit processes. 4. Ability in managing financial activities of multiple initiatives/programs, to analyze complex financial programs, effectively communicate needs, risks and mitigation, and devise effective and meaningful recommendations, and strategic and operational plans. 5. Ability to improve the effectiveness of Program or Agency Enterprise-level internal quality control, oversight, and risk-management operations by consistently establishing effective methods and procedures, and performance metric frameworks for budget/finance or technology acquisition programs.