Budget Analyst

National-Oceanic-; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, West Coast Region, Operations, Management, and Information Division seeks a candidate at ZA-3/GS-11 level with specialized financial experience. The role focuses on budgeting, funding analysis, and resource management within NMFS.

Applicants must meet OPM standards; education requirements are not fixed, and combinations of education and experience may be considered. This federal position requires adherence to GS qualification norms.

Qualifications

• One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to ZA-2/GS-09.
• Specialized experience must include budgeting estimates or reviewing justifications for funding requests or recommendations.
• Experience includes compiling, analyzing budget data to forecast organization or program funding needs.

Skills

Budgeting

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Data analysis

Job description

This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), West Coast Region (WCR), Operations, Management, and Information Division (OMI), with one vacancy in the listed locations.

This position is also announced under vacancy number NMFS-27-13081316-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/

EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

To qualify at the ZA-3 or GS-11 level:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following:

• Contributing to budget estimates or reviewing justifications for use in presenting funding requests or recommendations;
• Compiling or analyzing of budgetary data to forecast organization or program funding needs; and
• Reviewing or approving financial resources associated with yearly allocations or financial documents.

OR

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related.

OR

COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of successfully completed graduate-level education and specialized experience may be used to meet the total experience requirements.

Note: Only graduate-level education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be combined with experience.