Program Specialist / Program Resources Analyst

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service•Sacramento, CA

About The Position

Veterinary Services (VS) Field Operations is hiring 14 Program Specialists and 2 Program Resources Analysts. Program Specialists perform specialized paraprofessional work to improve the health, quality, and marketability of the nation’s farmed animals by leading, coordinating, and facilitating national certification and animal disease control programs. They identify and analyze administrative problems and recommend solutions; serve as Field Operations’ Lead Federal Travel Administrator on Concur or a replacement system and as a subject matter expert in timekeeping; and maintain the fleet inventory, oversee vehicle replacement, and advise managers on vehicle purchases. Program Resources Analysts provide administrative and analytical services and resources support and training for VS information systems. They support animal disease and pest programs and operational components of VS trade functions by extracting and evaluating data, developing map-based deliverables and dashboards, and training others to use VS information systems such as MIM. Duties described are at the full-performance level; developmental assignments have more limited scope, independence, and complexity.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship or U.S. national status.
Applicants born male after December 31, 1959 must be registered with Selective Service or exempt.
Satisfactory adjudication of a background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
Successful completion of a one-year probationary period unless previously served.
Federal employees seeking promotion must meet the time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at the next lower grade in the normal line of progression.
At the GS-09 level, one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 providing organizational support for planning, analyzing, coordinating, and evaluating priorities, resource allocations, workforce management, and/or performance; participating in developing timely, executable plans for assigned programs requiring coordination; and reviewing information, reconciling conflicting data, and analyzing findings to develop recommendations.
Alternatively, at the GS-09 level, a master’s or equivalent graduate degree, or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, in business, business administration, business management, information technology, information management, data management, data analysis, systems analysis, or a related field.
A qualifying combination of education and experience may meet the GS-09 requirements; education and experience percentages must total at least 100 percent.
Transcripts are required when qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience; qualifying education must be completed at an accredited school, college, or university.
Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
Enroll in Continuous Vetting as required for USDA employees.
Federal employees must receive payments by direct deposit.

Responsibilities

Identify and analyze administrative problems and recommend solutions.
Serve as the Lead Federal Travel Administrator for Field Operations on the Concur travel system or a replacement system.
Serve as a subject matter expert in timekeeping.
Maintain fleet inventory, oversee vehicle replacement, and advise District, Center, or Unit Managers on vehicle purchases.
Provide administrative and analytical services, resources support, and training for Veterinary Services information systems.
Support animal disease and pest programs and operational components of Veterinary Services trade functions.
Extract and evaluate data, develop map-based deliverables and dashboards, and train others to use Veterinary Services information systems such as MIM.