Organization Resource Advisor, 16 EWS

About the role

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What you will do

• The United States Space Force (USSF) at Peterson SFB, Colorado Springs, CO is searching for a Organization Resource Advisor for the 16 EWS (NH-0560-02, GS-5/11 Equivalent).
• Description: Serves as the functional point of contact for day-to-day budget/financial issues.
• Works with CFC, MD 3, and budget office counterparts to obtain, monitor, and track organization's funds.
• Works closely with supervisors/managers and/or project managers in utilization of resources, resolving problems, and determining funding/resource requirements.
• Compiles findings and makes recommendations for development and implementation of procedures for financial management and budgeting functions in support of organizational programs/activities.
• Participates as a member of the Financial Working Group (FWG), making recommendations on funded and unfunded priorities, prepares justifications, and defending requirements.
• Attends the Financial Management Board as required.
• Performs budget formulation work involving review and preparation of squadron budget estimates and financial plans.
• Reviews and analyzes budget requests submitted by organizational activities to ensure their consistency, accuracy, and adherence to instructions.
• Researches, consolidates, and summarizes budgetary data from source documents, automated budgetary systems, accounting records, and reports for use in preparing budget estimates and annual financial plans.
• Interprets source information and properly applies it to the budget.
• Reviews organizational historical data and/or matches funding requests or projected costs of selected line items with past records to determine trends in spending and forecast annual funding needs.
• Analyzes data for prior, current, and upcoming year in preparing financial plans.
• Develops consolidated budget, and reviews and drafts statements for justifying funding requests.
• Reviews budget submissions for compliance with rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Performs budget execution and administration work involving the monitoring of obligations incurred and the actual expenditures of funds.
• Monitors, tracks, and reviews obligations, expenditures, reimbursable orders, and requests for allotments, identifying and reporting differences that are not in keeping with annual work plans.
• Compares obligations and expenditures and identifies conditions over or under obligation of funds.
• Prepares and conducts reprogramming and adjustments of funding to cover short falls, unanticipated expenses, and/or unexpected emergencies, identifying and referring to higher level officials reprogramming actions which require prior approval.
• Obtains and provides information concerning the propriety of using funds for specific purposes by researching appropriate legal and regulatory guides.
• Makes recommendations for transfer of funds between object class and line item accounts under the same appropriation or allotment when funds are needed to cover increases in obligations or when expenditures fall below established limits.
• Verifies, enters, and adjusts budgetary data in a variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Monitors year-end closing to ensure proper and full use of funds.
• Provides advice, assistance, and guidance on budgeting and related information and conducts analyses, reviews and special studies of budget and/or related information.
• Provides advice on budget and related matters such as types of funding available, effects of budgetary changes on related activities, and status and use of funds.
• Compiles, prepares, and conveys information about the budget and programs of the organization.
• Prepares guidance and/or interpretation of standard procedures and regulations relating to the organization's budget and financial procedures/processes.
• Conducts budget-related training of organizational personnel on budget processes, procedures, requirements, etc. Researches and analyzes available factual information, trends in the cost of accomplishing specific work objectives, and/or relationships among organizational needs/objectives.
• Evaluates results for possible effect on program plans and funding.
• Conducts special studies of financial program and funding requirements to ensure the availability of funds.
• Utilizes common budgetary methods and techniques, applies basic statistical formulas, and contrasts/compares current and historical budget and program data in conducting analyses and studies.

How you will be evaluated

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled.

Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted.

If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Documents you must provide

• You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts.
• You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable.
• Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume.
• If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy.
• Your resume must provide: Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

What to expect next

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Additional information

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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.