Senior Resource Analyst TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Demonstrates professional competence as a Resource Analyst and awareness of all component or directorate programs and how they relate to the USG agency as a whole.
• Supports 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 of a component 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.
• Strategic planning to include: Exhibits awareness of the component's alignment with strategic goals of the component, directorate, the USG agency and the Intelligence Community. Participates in discussions to identify objectives, specific actions and timelines to achieve goals in the plan, linked with resource requirements. Participates in discussions to identify performance measures associated with the goals and objectives of the strategic plan. Supports senior management review of performance against stated goals.
• Analysis on programs: Identifies and obtains information needed or relevant for addressing complex issues or taskings (e.g., supporting new policies or procedures, developing business plans), such as trend reports within the finance system, billing statements, budget system reports and component tracking databases. Analyzes multiple complex pieces of information to form logical, sound conclusions about its value, importance, or accuracy. Applies analytic results, including historical trends and significant findings, in constructing budget submissions and assessing budget execution; draws inferences, extrapolates and generalizes as appropriate; identifies gaps in information provided by analyses.
• Advocacy of programs to include: 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.
• Cordination and collaboration to include: Coordinates cross-USG agency activities with resource managers and policy counterparts to ensure agency-wide integration. Coordinates with components regarding initiatives and current program status. Supports managers in the implementation of decision support tools, models and methodologies to support business imperatives (dependent upon position of assignment). Consults with senior management on data and analytical requirements. Designs and executes analytic studies to evaluate proposed or ongoing 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 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 components to ensure the integrity of corporate resource information. Serves as a resource for developing methods to verify and validate data. Obtains accurate information from a variety of sources that provides for 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 the difficult problems and cost equations; identifies and resolves data discrepancies. Follows standards and makes recommendations for change 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 Directorate or Mission Center. Reviews highly complex and/or sensitive 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.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain considerable knowledge of the USG agency’s strategic planning and resource management processes.
• Ability to obtain considerable knowledge of the USG agency’s program planning and execution processes.
• Considerable knowledge in the use of automated program planning software applications.
• Considerable knowledge of business resource planning practices and ability to obtain knowledge of the USG agency’s budgeting practices and procedures.
• Ability to obtain working knowledge of USG agency’s mission, plans and programs needed for participation in the decision-making process.
• Ability to obtain considerable knowledge of the USG agency’s regulations, policies and unique authorities.
• Considerable knowledge of appropriate Federal regulations and laws for area of assignment.
• Considerable knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timeliness of the data.
• Strong interpersonal skills are necessary to elicit cooperation and support from others and to interact tactfully and effectively with co-workers, supervisors and other employees.
• Strong oral and written communication skills sufficient for responses or briefings on substantive research topics and issues to a wide range of technical and non-technical customers, co-workers and managers.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work requirements by continuously evaluating the needs of the organization's mission against on-going work; and planning/scheduling own and unit's work.
• Ability to interact with people who have different values, cultures, or backgrounds.
• Ability to interact with customers, employees and managers at all levels in order to contribute to and influence decision-making and resolve conflict.
• Working knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles.
• Ability to apply analytic and diagnostic techniques and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate and recommend to managers substantive solutions to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues.
• Working knowledge of management science, operations research or cost analysis methodologies.