Management and Program Analyst

Summary

In this position, you will serve as a Management and Program Analyst, Resilience, Grant Program Directorate, Risk Management Division, Monitoring and Compliance Branch, located in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate for this position will have strong collaboration, communication and organizational skills as well as experience supporting executives and utilizing automation systems and databases, generating reports or spreadsheets and review agency programs.

Duties

• What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as a Management and Program Analyst in the Monitoring and Compliance Branch, Risk Management Division, Grant Programs Directorate. Typical assignments include: Tracking and documenting monitoring activities completed by staff at FEMA HQ and in the FEMA regions. Tracking recipient grant reporting and performing data collection and analysis to support Agency performance reporting. Responding to requests for information from internal and external stakeholders, including auditors, Congressional offices, DHS headquarters, the Fraud task force, and FEMA leadership. Developing data analysis of monitoring and performance reporting data, including identifying trends and targeting areas that require additional resources. This includes use of tools such as Excel, PowerBI, and other data analysis modalities. Assisting in development and deployment of new monitoring and reporting tools and protocols, including development of process flows, internal controls, targeted validation of data, and intuitive processes for staff, as well as training staff on the use of monitoring tools and processes. Providing technical assistance and guidance to FEMA staff on the use of monitoring tools, documenting monitoring activities, and completing assigned monitoring. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

Qualifications

Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-11 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Developing Microsoft tools and evaluating Data Analytics extracting from various data sources, and transferring and manipulating data including/using Excel, SharePoint, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint; AND Analyzing resource allocation procedures such as budgeting determinations, distribution methods, agency facilities plan, acquisition, ensuring compliance with federal regulations: AND Providing assistant in program administration at the federal, state, or local level while working independently with great attention to detail. OR Education: 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related OR Combination of education and experience Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/DAE employee? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." 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, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and pr…

Education

Education substitution: This position permits applicants to qualify based on education (or a combination of education and experience), as outlined in the "requirements" section. If you are using education to qualify, you must submit a copy of your transcripts (unofficial are acceptable) with your online application. Once selected and prior to appointment, applicants must provide official college transcripts. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. For example, specific courses accepted for college-level credit by an accredited U.S. college or university, or foreign education evaluated by an organization recognized for accreditation by the Department of Education as education equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. college or university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. Visit the Department of Education's Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.