Resource Analyst III

This is senior level (Level III) work in the multi-level Resource Analyst occupation and entails providing strategic / programmatic guidance to Agency customers on moderately to highly complex issues, preparing supporting documentation for budget exercises, and employing program analysis techniques.

• Demonstrates professional competence as a Resource Analyst and awareness of all component or directorate programs and how they relate to the Agency as a whole.
• Support the annual budget build by developing the Program Budget Submission and the Congressional Budget Justification Book (CBJB) for the assigned organization.
• Exhibits full awareness of physical, technical, human, and financial resource requirements and availability for all components or directorate program, both for the execution year and for all budget out-years.
• Uses knowledge of component resources and alternative resource sources to propose and implement cost-efficient strategies for meeting mission goals.
• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish component or directorate goals.
• Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable.
• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity.
• Prepares documentation, briefings, and discussions that represent, explain, justify, and defend program directions and resource requirements.
• Conducts research to help respond to ad hoc taskings such as those arising from Congressionally Directed Actions and Questions for the Record; coordinates with other components in these taskings.
• Prepares straightforward and complex written documents that address topics and issues in a clear, logical, and organized manner; ensures that written materials are targeted to the appropriate audience.
• Capably leads or conducts briefings or meetings, assessing audience reactions, and appropriately addressing concerns, questions, and comments.
• Coordinates cross-sponsor activities with resource managers and policy counterparts to ensure Agency-wide integration.
• Coordinates with components regarding initiatives and current program status.
• Supports CPA managers in the implementation of decision support tools, models, and methodologies to support CPA business imperatives (dependent upon position of assignment).
• Consults with CPA senior management on data and analytical requirements.
• Designs and executes analytic studies to evaluate proposed or ongoing Agency programs and activities that are highly sensitive or complex.
• Ensures data and / or systems are compatible and oversees integration of such systems with corporate applications.
• Demonstrates tools to CPA staff, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Prepares charts, talking points, papers, and memoranda to present summaries and findings that clearly and concisely communicate complex information.
• Collaborates with appropriate Agency components to ensure the integrity of corporate resource information.
• Serves as an Agency resource for developing methods to verify and validate data.
• Obtains accurate information from a variety of sources that provides consistent and comprehensive results; determines the appropriate tools to mine, evaluate, and present data culled from corporate repositories.
• Implements highly innovative, effective procedures and processes to solve difficult problems and cost equations; identifies and resolves data discrepancies.
• Follows standards and makes recommendations for changes to the design, implementation, and use of corporate repositories.
• Creates databases to facilitate analysis, develops complex information repository systems / methods and standard reports for use across the work unit, office, and sponsor.
• Reviews highly complex and / or sensitive Agency initiatives and draws conclusions about required funding levels.
• Leverages professional network and experience to provide value-added input; identifies key players. Establishes, fosters, and maintains constructive working relationships with these groups.
• Participates in a discussion aimed at identifying performance measures associated with the strategic direction and goals; works with senior management to evaluate performance in relation to stated goals and recommends necessary correlated measures.
• Informs management team of requirements / ad hoc tasking and document initiatives.

Requirements

Minimum of eight (8) plus years progressively responsible professional work experience in project / program management, quantitative analysis, financial analysis, or structured approaches to analysis to include data manipulation comparable to a full performance level program analyst.  Or eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience comparable to work functions performed at the developmental Cost Estimator performance level or full performance or as a Level II Resource Analyst or equivalent.

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