Management Analyst

**Duties**: **WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY** As a Management and Program Analyst, you will use your knowledge and experience with performing a wide variety of sensitive and complex duties involving analytical, coordinative, advisory and consultative services on a wide range of program operations and administrative financial and management issues to optimize business results and customer experience. Duties include: - Gathering and organizing narrative and statistical information using established methods, techniques, and precedents, such as questionnaires, interviews, review of computer data, and comparison of past, present, and related program functions. Programs are reviewed and studied to identify problems in duplication, overlapping and continued need. - Assisting with a full range and sequence of analytical steps appropriate for assigned studies, or portions of studies, from planning through fact-finding to reporting results. - Providing higher management with reports, evaluated information, budgetary proposals, and similar products necessary for effective direction of program operations. - Researching complex ongoing and projected programmatic activities and reviewing information, reconciling conflicting data, and devising new and modified methods to analyze findings. - Develops and maintains communications with other federal and non - federal organizations. **Requirements**: **Conditions of Employment**: - U.S. Citizenship required - Suitable for federal employment - Documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System. - All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choice. - All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. - Probationary (or trial) period may be required. **Qualifications**: **WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR** **Minimum Qualifications**:GS-12 Level**: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the** GS-11 level** in the Federal service that includes ALL of the following: - Evaluating program or program initiatives for efficiency or effectiveness. - Providing recommendations for program challenges and/or improvements; AND **Documenting experience**:IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume.In accordance with Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position description. Experience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable, however, when documented by satisfactory evidence, such as a signed memorandum from the employee's supervisor or an SF-50 or SF-52 documenting an official detail or other official assignment. The documentation must indicate whether the duties were performed full time or, if part time, the "percentage of times" the other duties were performed. It is expected that this documentation is included in the employee's official personnel record. In order to receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your official position, you must provide a copy of the appropriate documentation of such experience as indicated above. - 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; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to gain employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited. - OPM Qualification General Policies Website **Additional information**: **THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW** **Incentives may be authorized; however, this is contingent upon multiple factors, including funds availability**. If authorized, certain incentives may require you t