SSA Budget Lead AGENCY BUDGET SPECIALIST LEAD

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Introduction (maybe as

?), but we need to follow rules: Use

for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We must not repeat job title as heading. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Introduction paragraph: "When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind." - Then "GRADE STD0017 LOCATION OF POSITION Maryland Department of Human Services Office of Budget and Finance 25 S. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201". This is metadata; we can fold into a short

or drop. Probably include as a

with location info. - "Main Purpose of Job The major function of this position is to provide staff support and assistance as a lead Budget Analyst for a budget team assigned to prepare, monitor and enforce a specified DHS administration's central and local budget. The Lead Budget Analyst is responsible for the development, negotiation and execution of the Social Services Administration/Child Welfare budgets as well as the assignment and review of work of lower-level analyst and support staff. The analyst ensures that funds for the provision of services are obtained and managed in a manner consistent with all State and Federal guidelines and overall Department goals." - Then "POSITION DUTIES" list: multiple bullet-like sentences. We need to put them in

• . The duties are: 1. Systematically evaluates financial systems, data structures, and agency formatting needs to establish robust monitoring methodologies across departmental programs. 2. Ongoing analysis of fiscal data, the position assesses operational impacts, program success, and compliance with program regulations and grant proposals. 3. Maintain fiscal integrity and oversight, agency budgets, expenditure projections, and routine financial reports for Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management, the CFO, and executive staff. 4. Prepares comprehensive budget instruction guidelines and distributes them to both central administrations and local departments to ensure standardized request submissions across the agency. 5. Establish a sound basis for future funding, the position gathers and evaluates prior-year expenditures to identify spending trends while projecting upcoming financial needs based on programmatic plans and designs. 6. Reviews administration submissions, recommends appropriate funding levels, additions, deletions, or adjustments, and actively justifies and defends all budget recommendations to Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management. 7. Provides comprehensive administrative support, manages daily office workloads, prepares official correspondence, and oversees assigned program projects. 8. Ensure effective governance, the position actively participates in internal meetings, committees, and specialized workgroups as directed by leadership. - Then "Minimum Qualifications" with details: Experience: Eight years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution. Notes: substitution options. We need to capture qualifications: maybe a
  for requirements. - Then "Desired Or Preferred Qualifications": list: One year of experience with FMIS, one year with BARS, one year preparing/overseeing a budget in a government agency. - Then "SELECTION PROCESS" etc. This is procedural; maybe we can include as a

  but not as a heading unless we have a specific section like "Selection Process". The instruction says use headings for standard sections; we can create a section for "Selection Process" if there is real content. It does have content. But the allowed headings list includes: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. It does not list Selection Process. However the instruction: "Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples, but we should probably stick to those categories. It says "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". It doesn't forbid other headings, but the examples given are those. Safer to map content to those headings. We have: - About the role: could be Introduction + Main Purpose of Job. - Responsibilities: Position Duties. - Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (maybe also include notes). - Qualifications: Desired Or Preferred Qualifications. - Benefits: Benefits section. - Pay: Not present (no salary info). So we should not create Pay section. - Schedule: Not present. - Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we could omit. Thus we will output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from each section. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold metadata into a short

  or drop it. The metadata includes GRADE STD0017 LOCATION OF POSITION etc. We'll put that in a

  after the intro maybe. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. At the end there is a lot of application instructions (FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, TTY Users, equal opportunity employer). We must remove those. Also remove "SELECTION PROCESS" and "EXAMINATION PROCESS" maybe? Those are procedural; but they might be considered boilerplate? The instruction says remove application instructions. SELECTION PROCESS and EXAMINATION PROCESS are part of application process; likely should be removed. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; but those are procedural details about how to apply, not substantive job content. The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should remove SELECTION PROCESS, EXAMINATION PROCESS, FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, EEO statements, etc. Thus we keep: Introduction, location/metadata, Main Purpose of Job, Position Duties, Minimum Qualifications, Desired Or Preferred Qualifications, Benefits. We need to format as HTML fragment. Let's craft:

  About the role

  When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

  Grade: STD0017
  Location: Maryland Department of Human Services, Office of Budget and Finance, 25 S. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

  The major function of this position is to provide staff support and assistance as a lead Budget Analyst for a budget team assigned to prepare, monitor and enforce a specified DHS administration's central and local budget. The Lead Budget Analyst is responsible for the development, negotiation and execution of the Social Services Administration/Child Welfare budgets as well as the assignment and review of work of lower-level analyst and support staff. The analyst ensures that funds for the provision of services are obtained and managed in a manner consistent with all State and Federal guidelines and overall Department goals.

  Responsibilities

  • Systematically evaluates financial systems, data structures, and agency formatting needs to establish robust monitoring methodologies across departmental programs.
  • Ongoing analysis of fiscal data, the position assesses operational impacts, program success, and compliance with program regulations and grant proposals.
  • Maintain fiscal integrity and oversight, agency budgets, expenditure projections, and routine financial reports for Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management, the CFO, and executive staff.
  • Prepares comprehensive budget instruction guidelines and distributes them to both central administrations and local departments to ensure standardized request submissions across the agency.
  • Establish a sound basis for future funding, the position gathers and evaluates prior-year expenditures to identify spending trends while projecting upcoming financial needs based on programmatic plans and designs.
  • Reviews administration submissions, recommends appropriate funding levels, additions, deletions, or adjustments, and actively justifies and defends all budget recommendations to Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management.
  • Provides comprehensive administrative support, manages daily office workloads, prepares official correspondence, and oversees assigned program projects.
  • Ensure effective governance, the position actively participates in internal meetings, committees, and specialized workgroups as directed by leadership.

  Requirements

  Eight years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution.

  • Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and four years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution for the required experience.
  • Candidates may substitute graduate education from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, political science or public administration at a rate of 30 credit hours for five years of required experience.
  • Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Budget Officer classifications or Financial Management specialty codes in the Budgeting field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

  Qualifications

  • One year of experience with the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
  • One year of experience with the Budget Analysis and Reporting System (BARS).
  • One year of experience preparing and/or overseeing a budget in a government agency.

  Benefits

  • Health insurance, dental, and vision plans offered at a low cost.
  • Personal Leave – new State employees are awarded six (6) personnel days annually (prorated based on start date).
  • Annual Leave – ten (10) days of accumulated annual leave per year.
  • Sick Leave – fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave per year.
  • Parental Leave – up to sixty (60) days of paid parental leave upon the birth or adoption of a child.
  • Holidays – State employees also celebrate at least twelve (12) holidays per year.
  • Pension – State employees earn credits towards a retirement pension.
  • Positions may be eligible for telework.
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    for prose. We didn't invent or summarize away detail. Check that we preserved all substantive info from the posting: - Introduction