Strategic Budget Analyst & Policy Advisor

First Roles; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

First Roles in ND is seeking a Budget Analyst to support routine budget analysis for the ND National Guard in Bismarck. This Title 5 position does not require military membership.

You will assist in preparing estimates and justifications, and ensure funding requests are well-documented and compliant with directives. The role involves interpreting policy, guiding leadership, and drafting a variety of documents.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the preparation of budget estimates and justifications.
• Interpreting and applying directives, policy, guidance, and circulars.
• Perform moderately difficult and complex assignments consisting of well-precedented tasks to further orient the employee in the application of occupational principles, methods, and techniques.
• Independently plans and carries out successive steps and handles problems and deviations in work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices.
• Prepares or edits narrative justification and projected funding needs, and assures data in request is formally and accurately documented in a wide variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Provides advice, interpretation, and guidance to customers and leadership.
• Drafts or prepares a variety of documents to include newsletter items, responses to routine inquiries, reports, letters, and other related documents.
• Uses software such as word processing, spreadsheets, program language, plotting software, etc., to facilitate work.

Job description

First Roles in ND is seeking a Budget Analyst to support routine budget analysis for the ND National Guard in Bismarck. This Title 5 position does not require military membership.

You will assist in preparing estimates and justifications, and ensure funding requests are well-documented and compliant with directives. The role involves interpreting policy, guiding leadership, and drafting a variety of documents.