Management Analyst - Budget Department

Syracuse City School District • Syracuse, NY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Syracuse City School District is seeking a dedicated and diverse team of educators to partner with the Superintendent in moving the district toward its goals of ensuring all students graduate high school with the skills needed to be ready for college and career. The Syracuse City School District represents 35 schools and programs, serving approximately 19,000 students Pre-K–12. This role involves responsibility for formulating recommendations concerning departmental structures and organizations for various departments, bureaus, and units of government, with a primary emphasis on assisting managers and directors to maintain quality and consistency of public service in conjunction with efficiency studies and cost containment measures. The analyst will study and analyze work tasks and methods, personnel responsibilities, and work duplication, utilizing insights into management problems to devise effective and economical procedures at all organizational levels. Studies and analyses are completed independently through the investigation of personnel and facilities used within a department or unit of government service. This may involve contact and interviews with employees, supervisors, and managers; review of project plans, budget documents, annual reports, research studies, laws, codes, or other material relative to the fiscal and financial obligations or plans of a department or project. General supervision is received from an administrative superior, and work is reviewed upon completion of studies and the preparation of recommendations. Employees in this class do not typically supervise subordinates. Incumbents may be required to successfully pass a background check.

Requirements

• Possession of a Master's Degree from a regionally accredited college or university or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees in industrial engineering, operational management, operational research, management science, public administration, business administration, or a closely related field; or,
• Graduation from a regionally accredited college or university or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees with a Bachelor's Degree and one (1) year of professional level work experience, or its part time equivalent, in public administration, business or organizational management, administrative or financial analysis, research, accounting, community planning or management planning in a public sector agency or its equivalent in the private sector, or in a closely related field; or,
• Five (5) years of paraprofessional or professional level work experience, or its part time equivalent, two (2) years of which must have been professional level work experience as defined in B above.
• Good knowledge of effective organizational and management principles and practices.
• Good knowledge of trends and developments in the field of management analysis.
• Working knowledge of pertinent laws, rules, regulations and procedures affecting public service in local governments.
• Ability to gather and analyze data and draw conclusions.
• Ability to prepare detailed reports, and to support recommendations.
• Ability to select or devise analytical techniques suited to the study of management concerns.
• Ability to conduct interviews and establish and maintain effective relationships.
• Successfully pass a background check.
• Successfully pass a fingerprint-based background check, at the cost of $104.50 to the candidate.

Responsibilities

• Conducts assigned studies of management concerns to analyze, evaluate and develop specific recommendations to management for improved operational and program efficiency and effectiveness.
• Reviews and studies statements of responsibility, goals, objectives, programs, organization charts, job descriptions and other relevant functional information to determine duties and responsibilities of employees and work units; identifies areas of overlap or duplication within and/or across departmental lines.
• Establishes work measurement programs and makes sample observations of work to develop productivity indicators and personnel utilization standards.
• Analyzes utilization of personnel, equipment and materials in units and develops work simplification programs in areas such as work distribution, process flow, forms design, economy of workers motions and layout of units.
• Plans space layout of units to attain objectives of work measurement and simplification studies.
• Prepares recommendations for the reorganization of units and/or job duties to increase efficiency of operation.
• Prepares recommendations concerning improvements in management techniques and work procedures.
• Assists in the development and implementation of a system for comprehensive planning within departments.
• Assists in construction systems for change when so indicated by completed studies and recommendations.
• Prepares reports to management indicating alternatives and solutions, and writes follow-up reports evaluating the effectiveness of implemented recommendations.

Benefits

• The current salary range is $66,950-$92,700 depending on experience and qualifications pursuant to the Unit 11 Collective Bargaining Agreement contract.

What This Job Offers

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