Management Analyst III - Cost Recovery

The Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances protects the environment and human health and safety.

About the role

This position provides wide support and oversight for all fiscal and budget activities associated with programs within the Division of Waste and Hazardous Substances. This position is primarily responsible for the cost recovery for over 200 remediation sites and budget reconciliation. Additional duties include creation and tracking of purchase orders, accounts payable/receivable, and verification of payroll funding. This position will advise and draft policies and procedures for the division and advise management on budget questions and issues on a regular basis.

Preferred Qualification

Applicants who do not possess the preferred qualification will still be eligible to compete for this position if job requirements are met.

• Six months experience in administering cost recovery activities, including tracking recoverable costs, preparing cost recovery documentation, monitoring collections, reconciling financial records, and ensuring compliance with established policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Interviews agency staff, observes work processes, and gathers data relating to operational and managerial practices and procedures for use in evaluating services provided and/or determining compliance to goals and objectives.
• Reviews, performs statistical analysis, and interprets collected data relating to policies, procedures, organization, managerial, and operational practices; defines and may make recommendations for correcting problems.
• Analyzes data gathered and develops solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
• Analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of operations in meeting established goals and objectives.
• Provides technical assistance in understanding and developing management objectives and controls for resolution of issues and concerns.
• Studies pertinent background material such as legislation, administrative orders, and regulations.
• Makes recommendations for and assists in the implementation of new techniques or procedures to improve methods of operations, strengthen controls, and effectively utilize resources.
• Documents findings of studies and prepares recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
• May supervise administrative support and/or paraprofessional staff. Supervision is exercised over at least two or more merit full-time positions per the Merit Rules. The elements of supervision include planning, assigning, reviewing, evaluating, coaching, training, recommending hire/fire, and discipline.

Requirements

For Management Analyst III, applicants must have education, training, and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

• Three years experience in conducting studies which includes evaluating operations, programs, services, policies, and procedures to determine efficiency, effectiveness, whether goals and objectives are met, and compliance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Three years experience in descriptive statistics such as the mean, median, mode, or standard deviation.
• Three years experience in interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months experience in designing studies which includes determining study goals and objectives, information needed, data sources, sampling, and collection methods.
• Six months experience in making recommendations for continuation or changes to operations, programs, services, policies, or procedures based on findings.
• Six months experience in narrative report writing.
• Knowledge of inferential statistics such as correlation, t-tests, f-tests, or analysis of variance.

Conditions of Hire

• DNREC does not provide sponsorship for holders of H-1 B Visas. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• The State of Delaware Executive Branch participates in the Federal E-Verify system.
• As a condition of hire, you must possess a valid driver's license (not suspended, revoked or cancelled, or disqualified from driving).
• All new hires are required to report to the Statewide New Employee Orientation (SNEO) on their first day of employment.

Benefits

To learn more about the comprehensive benefit package, please visit our website at https://dhr.delaware.gov/benefits/.