PROGRAM ANALYST

Summary Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose: This is a formal career broadening position, established specifically to provide developmental experience designed to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of an identified high-potential, mid-level manager/executive; it is not a continuing position and assignment duration is NTE 36 months with rotations between divisions. Responsibilities DUTY 1 Perform career broadening duties involved with developing and reviewing logistics planning and programming documentation. DUTY 2 Serve as a team member performing career broadening assignments to include providing logistics management for fielded systems. DUTY 3 Conducts costs comparison or economic analyses. DUTY 4 Provides program oversight duties designed to meet the career broadening intent of this position. DUTY 5 Prepare and/or provide input to POM, President's Budget and/or other programming/budgeting exercises. DUTY 6 Participates in discussions meetings or serves on panels or committees. DUTY 7 Present briefings. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Specialized Experience: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Applicants must have served at least 52 weeks at the GS-11 or higher grade (or equivalent in an alternate pay system) within the Federal Civil Service to be considered for referral. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: 1. General knowledge of logistic plans, programs, procedures, and the substantive nature of operating programs, their inter-relationships, and of the theories, principles and techniques involving logistics process for sustaining system development. 2. Knowledge of program management functions, principles, techniques, program goals and the organizational elements involved in accomplishing program objectives. 3. Knowledge of the Congressional budget and legislative enactment process, and the DoD planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) system to develop and refine out-year projections. 4. Skill in integrating separate functions in order to manage an entire system, and applying statistical analysis techniques, and cost comparison procedures and applicable directives and the ability to analyze data to determine changes and trends. 5. Analytical ability to discern the medium and long-range effects of a multiplicity of logistics programs developed within and external to the command. 6. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to gain cooperation from others through tact, courtesy and diplomacy. Education Additional Information PCS restrictions: An employee selected to make a PCS to a Career Broadening assignment is restricted from making a second PCS for 12 months Defense National Relocation Program is Authorized Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit. Incentives: Recruitment and/or retention incentives may not be used. Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here. If you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click here. Tax Law Impact for PCS: On 22-Dec-2017, Public Law 115-97 - the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" suspended qualified moving expense deductions along with the exclusion for employer reimbursements and payments of moving expenses effective 01-Jan-2018 for tax years 2018 through 2025. The law made taxable certain reimbursements and other payments, including driving mileage, airfare and lodging expenses, en-route travel to the new duty station, and temporary storage of those items. The Federal Travel Regulation Bulletin (FTR) 18-05 issued by General Services Administration (GSA) has authorized agencies to use the Withholding Tax Allowance (WTA) and Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) to pay for "substantially all" of the increased tax liability resulting from the "2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" for certain eligible individuals. For additional information on WTA/RITA allowances and eligibilities please click here. Subsequently, FTR Bulletin 20-04 issued by GSA, provides further information regarding NDAA FY2020, Public Law 116-92, and the expansion of eligibility beyond "transferred" for WTA/RITA allowances. For additional information, please click here.