STAFF SERVICES ANALYST

State of California•Sacramento, CA

37d•Hybrid

About The Position

Under the general direction of the Branch Chief, Office of Management Services, a Staff Services Manager I, the incumbent exercises a high degree of initiative and independent judgment in researching, gathering, analyzing, and compiling data from various sources to prepare special reports, correspondence, and spreadsheets requested by management in support of business initiatives and projects. Incumbent responds to staff and management questions by conducting research, analyzing material, and drawing sound conclusions and presenting results to management. Assigns, tracks, and analyzes special project assignments utilizing Microsoft (MS) Excel and following Maintenance's procedures. Eligibility for hire may be determined by your score on the Staff Services Analyst exam. For those who do not have current eligibility (e.g., transfer, permissive reinstatement, or voluntary demotions) and/or who will be new to state civil services employment, you must be on the state examination list to be eligible for these positions. To apply for the exam, please click here and search by typing in the classification title. The Human Resources Contact is available to answer questions regarding the application process. The Hiring Unit Contact is available to answer questions regarding the position. Please take this 1-minute Caltrans Recruitment survey to tell us how you found out about this job. https://forms.office.com/g/RyK102ty4G https://youtu.be/oC9wIp8QalI Apply today to join our team! We especially encourage applicants to check out our Caltrans Career Compass tool! The Caltrans Career Compass is a tool to assist and help candidates understand and succeed in applying to Caltrans positions. PARF#56-6-156 / JC-499781 You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

Requirements

Knowledge of principles, practices, and trends of public and business practices.
Knowledge for methods used to track and monitor expenditures and resources.
Knowledge of the Caltrans Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS), data requirements of the Caltrans project managers, functional managers, task managers and existing project related information systems.
Thorough understanding of Critical Path Method (CPM) of project scheduling.
Understand project funding and how it applies to project schedules.
Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and analyze data from multiple sources.
Ability to schedule, manage and status Caltrans capital outlay projects using a sophisticated computer scheduling tool.
Ability to forecast and anticipate problems arising in project schedules and project resource assignments, and effectively communicate with the project manager, Office of Project and Project Management staff, and external partners.
Ability to motivate and persuade other functions to complete project deliverables.
Ability to work and act independently with initiative and follow up.
Skillful in performing numerical and statistical calculations to provide useful information.
Ability to initiate tasks with little or no instruction based on project needs.

Responsibilities

researching, gathering, analyzing, and compiling data from various sources to prepare special reports, correspondence, and spreadsheets requested by management in support of business initiatives and projects
responding to staff and management questions by conducting research, analyzing material, and drawing sound conclusions and presenting results to management
assigning, tracking, and analyzing special project assignments utilizing Microsoft (MS) Excel and following Maintenance's procedures