Management Analyst.

Veterans Benefits Administration; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

None

Job summary

Veterans Benefits Administration is seeking a Management Analyst (GS-11/9) to apply analytical and evaluative methods to improve work methods, budgeting, and records management. The role supports Agency programs, conducts cost analyses, and reviews workload and efficiency.

Telework is possible on a situational basis; standard hours are Monday–Friday, 8:00am–4:30pm. Promotions to full performance achievable after meeting requirements.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience applying analytical/evaluative methods to issues and studies.
• Experience researching regulations, policies and precedents affecting work processes.
• Ability to conduct detailed analysis of complex issues and work processes.

Responsibilities

• Advise on work methods, manpower utilization, and delegation of authority.
• Provide position management advice and recommendations.
• Develop proposals to restructure program areas with redistributed tasks.
• Study and implement management improvements identified via reviews and studies.
• Use moderately complex analytical techniques.
• Coordinate budget and planning processes for upper management.
• Gather information for programs and review budget formulations.

Skills

Analytical methods

Budgeting & planning

Program analysis

Records management

Education

Master's degree or higher

Ph.D. or equivalent (GS-11 substitution)

Job description

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performs analytical and evaluative work to advise or improve effectiveness of work methods and procedures, manpower utilization, work assignment distribution, delegations of authority, information and similar functions of management.
• Provides position management advice and recommendations.
• Develops proposals to restructure program areas that require redistribution of significant portions or tasks of positions that are distinct but interrelated.
• Studies and implement management improvements in administrative areas identified through such means as internal control reviews, and management studies.
• Uses analytical techniques of a moderately complex nature.
• Coordinates assigned budget and planning processes to inform upper management on key issues, to impact Agency processes and decision-making.
• Gathers information for assigned programs and reviews budget formulations and workload analysis.
• Maintains a Records Management Program for a multi-mission program and develops tools promoting the effective coordination of a Records Management Program.
• Conducts cost analyses such as development of life cycle or other cost analyses of projects, or performance or cost benefit or economic evaluations of programs.
• Analyze and evaluate, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations in meeting established goals and objectives.

Promotion Potential:

The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. The grade progression for this position is GS-09/11.

Work Schedule:

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm

Compressed/Flexible:

Not available

Telework:

This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position.

Position Description/PD#:

Management Analyst, 40324A (GS-11), 40325A (GS-09)

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:

Not authorized

Bargaining Unit Position:

No

Financial Disclosure Report:

Not required

Requirements

Conditions of employment

Required

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 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.

Additional Conditions Of Employment Are As Follows

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary or trial period
• Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Time-In-Grade Requirement

Applicants who are current Federal employees must meet the time-in-grade requirements.

• GS-09 grade level you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07 grade level.
• GS-11 grade level you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09 grade level.

The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

GS-09 Grade Level

• Specialized Experience: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-07 level in the federal service). Specialized experience is defined as applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or studies; researching and applying pertinent regulations, policies and precedents which affect work processes and operations; and experience conducting detailed analysis of complex issues, work functions and/or work processes.

OR

• Education Substitution: Masters or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such degree or LL. B or J.D., if related. Applicants may substitute education for the experience required. (You must provide supporting transcripts).

OR

• Combination of Experience and Education at the GS-09 grade level: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at the GS-9 level. Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified in the table and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education more than the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9. (When crediting education that requires specific course work, prorate the number of hours of related courses required as a proportion of the total education to be used.) Your transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

GS-11 Grade Level

• Specialized Experience: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service). Specialized experience is defined as, a thorough knowledge of management and organizational principles and practice; quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze, evaluate, and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of organizational operations; demonstrate expert communication skills to present and articulate findings to management; working as a liaison between two or more individuals in order to make a decision.

OR

• Education Substitution: 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 (You must provide supporting transcripts)

OR

• Combination of Experience and Education at the GS-11 grade level: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at the GS-11 level. Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified in the table and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education more than the amount required for the next