Clarification from the agency

Your application will be considered if you are a: • GSA employee • GSA surplus or displaced employees in the local commuting area who qualify for the Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) You must be serving on a career or career-conditional appointment, or under a noncompetitive Special Appointing Authority which provides for conversion to a permanent position in the Competitive Service.

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• Provides broad support to leadership involving tracking  initiatives, formulating and managing budget, preparing budget justifications, and preparing and delivering key executive communications and briefing materials.
• Develops forecasts for the organization fund, both original funds, the American Rescue Plan (ARP) fund, and repayments.
• Responsible for the overall review and coordination during the budget formulation/execution phase. 
• Reviews all components of the budget execution process, assuring the integrity and accuracy of the information reported.
• Provides leadership, expert assistance, and authoritative advice on interpretation of governing policy in the designated program areas. 
• Works extensively with agency subject-matter experts and senior agency officials to review and analyze the directive content to ensure clarity and value. 
• Conducts special projects and strategic analysis on a broad range of classified, confidential, sensitive projects or assignments, involving controversial issues of public interest and complex subject matter, to resolve unyielding problems.
• Processes and ensures effective presentation, support, and justification of products/services supporting the organization mission and statutory requirements and/or the policies, plans and evaluation methods used by federal agencies, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Conditions of employment

• US Citizenship or National (Residents of American Samoa and Swains Island)
• Meet all eligibility requirements within 30 days of the closing date.
• Meet time-in-grade within 30 days of the closing date, if applicable
• Register with the Selective Service if you are a male born after 12/31/1959

If selected, you must meet the following conditions:

Qualifications

For each job on your resume, provide:

• the exact dates you held each job (from month/year to month/year)
• number of hours per week you worked (if part time).

 
If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace corps, Americorps), we encourage you to include this experience on your resume.

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The GS-14 salary range starts at $122,198.00 per year. Locality pay will be determined once the duty location has been established.  

To qualify, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or higher in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as:

• Managing, planning, budgeting, execution, and assessment, from a cost, scope, and schedule standpoint of program and project management.
• Leading an administrative staff of employees to effectively accomplish the daily and long-range operations of an organization.
• Applying quantitative and qualitative techniques such as economic models, cost-benefit analysis, queuing approaches, decision analysis, root cause analysis and systems analytics in evaluation and presentation of policy/program operations and activities.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

You will be scored on the questions you answer during the application process, which will measure your possession of the following competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities.  Your responses to these questions must be supported by your resume or your score may be lowered.  

• Ability to act independently in the planning and execution of a variety of projects and to make authoritative and final decisions requiring considerable technical judgment.
• Knowledge of principles, theories, and practices of governmental budgeting, accounting, and financial management to develop and implement new or revised policies and procedures.
• Skill in dealing diplomatically and tactfully with all levels of management and peers. 
• Skill in collaborating across boundaries to build strategic business relationships to achieve common goals and resolve sensitive issues.
• Ability to use sound judgment, ability to effectively communicate with senior management within and outside the Government, and the capability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to make well-informed and objective decisions, perceive the impact and implication of decisions, commit to action even in uncertain situations, and to accomplish organizational goals.

Additional hurdle assessments, such as narrative responses or other assessments, may be administered to applicants who meet the requirements of the first hurdle, e.g., the minimum qualification requirements. If additional assessments are used, you will be provided with further instructions.

Consideration will be given to performance appraisals and incentive awards in merit promotion selection decisions in accordance with 5 CFR 335.103(b)(3). You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume so that information will be taken into consideration during the selection process.  If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation.

If you are eligible under GSA's Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), you must receive a score of 85 or higher to receive priority.