Management Analyst

Your tasks

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.

Requirements

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience qualifications for the grade at which you are requesting consideration. To qualify for the Grade 13, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-12, it must include: Experience evaluating the long-range effectiveness and productivity of enterprise-wide administrative programs, including diagnosing systemic organizational deficiencies, designing workflow optimization frameworks, and advising senior management on corrective strategies. Experience serving as a programmatic authority over enterprise-level automated administrative systems, including developing time and attendance compliance policies, governing physical property accountability frameworks, and directing complex organizational onboarding initiatives. Experience directing organization-wide compliance or employee benefit initiatives, which includes serving as the final programmatic approving authority, interpreting statutory or regulatory requirements, and enforcing compliance standards across diverse organizational lines. Experience in liaising with leadership, supervisors, and HR to track staffing actions, monitor deadlines, and ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.

To qualify for the Grade 14, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-13, it must include: Experience serving as a designated fund certifier and senior advisor to executive leadership on budget formulation and resource allocation strategies for an enterprise-level portfolio, which includes independently executing corrective actions to mitigate funding shortfalls or execution risks across an organization. Experience leading cross-functional organizational studies and process assessments, utilizing strategic data analytics and change management frameworks to establish fundamental management policies impacting personnel across an enterprise. Experience directing corporate administrative operations and workforce planning, which includes providing executive-level oversight for personnel actions, managing large-scale facilities or infrastructure transitions, and administering organization-wide training initiative. Experience coordinating human capital activities, including workforce planning, recruitment, position management, onboarding, and performance management.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Financial Management Comprehends organizational financial processes, manages program budgets, oversees procurement, monitors expenditures, and applies cost-benefit analysis for priority setting. Aligns with the requirement to serve as a fund certifier providing senior oversight for budget formulation and resource allocation. Administration and Management Knowledge of planning, coordinating, and executing business functions, resource allocation, and production. Corresponds to the broad administrative oversight needed for workforce planning, property management, and serving as organizational Training Officer Client Engagement/Change Management Knowledge of change management principles, strategies, and the impact of change on organizational culture and processes. Reflects the need for expert knowledge in change management theories and assisting senior managers with paradigm shifts and stakeholder engagement.

For all types of consideration, 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. For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4 All applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Other

Requirements 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.