Budget Analyst

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 11/02/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted.

An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

To qualify for this position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications: Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position at the GS-11 grade level: To qualify, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors).

Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: monitoring status of funds or financial transactions for an organization; analyzing and reconciling budget and fiscal documents; assisting in developing budget submissions; generating financial reports; and providing guidance on financial, budget regulatory or statutory requirements, policies, and procedures..

You must include hours per week worked. -OR- Education: Successful completion a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree if directly related to the work of the position. You must include transcripts. -OR- Combination of education and experience as listed above.

To combine education and experience, first take the number of semester hours (or equivalent) earned towards a graduate degree, in excess of 36 semester hours, and divide by 18 semester hours (or equivalent). Then take the number of months of full-time experience and divide by 12 months. Add the percentages together. The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. You must include hours worked per week on resume and transcripts.

Volunteer Experience: 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.

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Review and analyze budgets to ensure preparation and use of the funds are in accordance with allocations, policies, procedures, laws, and required formats. Provide financial planning advice, including needs versus funding; determine submission formats and coordinate and consolidate requests for the park.

• Prepare budget summaries for submission, compile status of funds, adjust accounts, and prepare support justifications for reprogramming requests.
• Review and analyze requests for adjustments in allocations, transfers of funds between units and agencies, and special funding distributions.
• Establish and maintain a current and functional control record of all assigned allocations and authorizations received and disbursed.
• Analyze and summarize financial reports.
• Identify and evaluate trends and potential problems.

Conduct periodic financial reviews to ensure rate of expenditures are within approved funding levels. Drafts a variety of financial reviews, instructions, and procedures. Participate in reviewing and analyzing directions and procedures on financial management matters from Region, WASO, & DOI and develop guidance for managers to accomplish objectives.