Clarification from the agency

This vacancy announcement is open to applicants who currently live in the Washington, D.C. or San Antonio, TX commuting area, and to current employees of the federal judiciary nationwide (AO and U.S. Courts). The actual salary will be based on the geographic location of the individual selected for this position.

The Program Analyst (Acquisition) serves as a budget analyst, accomplishing a range of complex, expert assignments including financial analysis, planning, programming, budgeting, and executing the Cloud Hosting and Networks Office (CHNO) budget. The incumbent also provides contract oversight and audits contracts servicing CHNO's IT services portfolio. The Program Analyst reports directly to the CHNO Office Chief.

The duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

1. Formulating and executing CHNO's budget and providing advice and guidance to CHNO leadership on the budget formulation and execution process.
2. Preparing and executing budget presentations and financial plans.
3. Providing authoritative information on changing or conflicting budget, fiscal, and program guidelines and conditions.
4. Providing support to CHNO management to resolve budget and financial issues.
5. Advising senior leaders and program managers on changes in funding levels resulting from budget actions.
6. Developing, implementing, and interpreting broad supplemental policy guidance in preparing multiyear annual program plans, funding estimates, and schedules.
7. Coordinating with all levels of management and professionals within and outside the agency to resolve problems identified from the integration and correlation of budget and financial systems information, administrative funds control, and periodic reporting for federal budget activities.
8. Collaborating with other Department of Technology Services Contracting Officer's Representatives, vendors, the Resource Management Branch, and other CHNO divisions on improving and streamlining acquisition budget formulation and execution processes across the department.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated experience must demonstrate ALL areas defined below:

1. Formulating executing, reviewing, evaluating, and justifying resource requirements for complex programs.
2. Applying accounting and/or finance technical skills and using analytical software tools.

1. Experience with public cloud service contracts, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory, Amazon Web Services.
2. Experience with multiple IT contractors part of an integrated IT program, such as IT support and IT HW/SW contracts

How you will be evaluated

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

We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.