Budget Analyst -TCF Intern

Veterans Health Administration • Charleston, SC

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About The Position

The Budget Analyst is a developmental position in the Veterans Health Administration’s Technical Career Field (TCF), a national workforce development program intended to replenish technical staff in identified positions. The position is recruited at GS-07. The selectee follows a formal two-year training plan, with coaching and supervision from a preceptor, and performs assignments designed to build skills and experience through increasingly complex work and progressively less supervision. A promotion to GS-11 (the target grade) may be possible after satisfactory completion of applicable requirements and upon supervisor recommendation; selection does not guarantee promotion. A selectee must enter on duty no later than September 30, 2024, and must sign Mobility, Training, and Continued Service Agreements.

The position performs routine and recurring budget administration work, including preparation and review of budget estimates and supporting information, analysis of budget and program data, and review of budget execution documents. Work schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; hours may change based on agency needs. A compressed or flexible schedule is not available. The work is primarily sedentary at a desk or table, with some standing and walking to attend meetings and visit offices and buildings.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• May be required to serve a probationary period and undergo a background/security investigation.
• Must complete the online onboarding process if selected.
• Must sign Training-Service and Mobility Agreements.
• Must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements if a current or former Federal employee: for GS-07, 52 weeks at GS-05, with supporting SF-50 documentation.
• Qualify through one of the stated paths: one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-05; one full year of graduate-level education or superior academic achievement; or a qualifying combination of specialized experience and post-high-school education.
• Specialized experience includes budget formulation procedures, analyzing object-class and line-item obligations and expenditures, evaluating relationships between program plans and budget data, and preparing brief factual reports on the purposes of expenditures.
• Submit a transcript if using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements; foreign education requires a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
• Meet the requirement to enter on duty no later than September 30, 2024.
• Participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program and, if selected, meet the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, subject to legally required accommodations.
• Work is primarily sedentary, with a moderate amount of standing and walking for meetings and visits to offices and buildings.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine and recurring budget administration, including budgeting personnel salaries and expenses for activities funded through direct annual appropriations.
• Gather, extract, review, verify, and consolidate narrative information and statistical data used to formulate and present budget requests, including estimates of subordinate organizations’ funding needs.
• Crosscheck budget and program data in related forms, schedules, and reports; change or recommend adjustments to inconsistent totals, subtotals, and entries.
• Compare current funding estimates by line item or object class with prior-year expenditures and bring significant variations to the supervisor’s attention.
• Prepare preliminary budget estimates and review justifications for relatively stable programs or program-support activities.
• Receive and screen budget execution documents and recommend approval, disapproval, or modification, including requests for fund allotments, personnel actions to fill vacancies, and travel orders.
• Analyze research guides to identify regulatory, program, and budgetary information for supervisors or higher-grade analysts.
• Prepare summaries of narrative, quantitative, and statistical information in budget forms, schedules, and reports.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; eligibility depends on position type and other applicable factors.
• Potential credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work or military service, subject to request and approval before appointment and not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level