GS-560-14 February 10, 1994
NOTE: THE SENTENCE IN PART I DESCRIBING THE PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
AND PARTS II AND III IN THEIR ENTIRETY ARE PERMANENT PARTS OF THE
LIBRARY AND MAY NOT BE CHANGED OR EDITED IN ANY WAY.
I. INTRODUCTION
This position is located in
As a senior budget analyst, the incumbent plans, organizes, and carries out a major,
substantive budget for a significant program component, ensuring the effective integration of
program and budget planning.
II. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Performs a wide variety of administrative and analytical duties connected with the review,
justification and presentation of the budgets for a bureau or major component(s) of a bureau.
Provides advice to top management on the Federal budget process. May develop,
recommend, and implement budgetary policies affecting the financing and accomplishment of
national programs. Provides long-range analysis of the potential effects of budgetary actions
on national economic, social, and political objectives. Provides authoritative interpretations
of Congressional legislation and OMB policies and precedents. Reviews, approves,
disapproves, and recommends the amount and timing of allotments of funds to agency
components and programs. Develops proposed appropriation language in support of new or
revised program and budgetary requirements. Tracks progress of bureau appropriations
through Congress. Justifies budget before OMB staff. Provides liaison between OMB staff
and bureau budget offices.
III. FACTOR LEVELS
Factor 1 - Knowledge Required by the Position FL 1-8 1550 points
Expert knowledge of the Department and the Federal budget process, and all associated
policies, directives, procedures and regulations, to develop and provide authoritative advice
and interpretations of legislation and policies and precedents.
Knowledge of organization's mission, programs, and legislative history to develop budgetary
policies, to assist line organization in setting and implementing program goals, to determine
how they impact and interact with other programs and budgets of the Department, and other
Federal and state agencies.
A high degree of skill in analysis and comparison of program content, cost-benefit, and
political viability of alternative budget and program actions.
Factor 2 - Supervisory Controls FL 2-5 650 points
The supervisor provides broad administrative and policy direction through discussion of
financial and program goals and related Presidential, Congressional, or political
considerations which affect agency budgets. The incumbent independently plans, schedules,
coordinates, implements, and evaluates the effectiveness of budgetary programs in the
assigned organization. Technical and policy judgments concerning agency budgets are
accepted by the supervisor without substantive change. Review of the incumbent's decisions
and recommendations is primarily for the purpose of evaluating their impact on
Department-wide goals, objectives, and priorities.
Factor 3 - Guidelines FL 3-5 650 points
The incumbent is a recognized technical authority on the development and interpretation of
budgetary guidelines, policies, legislation, and regulations covering the budgetary operations
of one-or-more substantive national programs. Guidelines are nonspecific and stated in terms
of broad policies and goals such as appropriations language, enabling legislation,
precedent-setting judicial decisions, and broad based Comptroller General decisions. The
incumbent must use initiative, judgment, and originality researching and interpreting national
policies and legislation, in developing broad agency budgetary programs and/or regulations
and policy, in determining when new or revised legislation is needed, and in researching and
preparing recommendations for the content of such legislation.
Factor 4 - Complexity FL 4-5 325 points
Assignments at this level are varied and complex and require in-depth analysis to determine
the means of resolution and the application of a variety of non-related techniques and
methods to a broad range of budget tasks. Work involves reviewing, analyzing,
consolidating, and revising budget estimates, justification statements, and budget execution
plans submitted by organizations. The incumbent advises managers on appropriate budgetary
action to be taken to meet agency needs, makes recommendations affecting substantive
programs, monitors and reports on the rate of expenditure of funds, and alerts managers of
trends in obligation of funds. Decisions made are affected by conflicting and changing
influences. The work involves consideration of such issues as: financial and workload
relationships; timing of obligations and expenditures in relation to the budget cycle; current
and future resource needs; direct or indirect monetary impact of new legislation. The
incumbent is responsible for performing associated budget work for programs and/or
organizations with substantive programs with varying needs, goals, objectives, work
processes, and timetables.
Factor 5 - Scope and Effect FL 5-5 325 points
The primary purpose of the work is to review, analyze, monitor, and resolve budgetary
problems in all program and budgetary aspects of assigned program area to assure
compliance with Secretarial priorities, and OMB and Congressional guidelines. Advice,
information, and recommendations made by the incumbent concerning the budget are used to
form the basis for Secretarial decisions regarding the program content, resource level, and
format of the agency budget requests to OMB and Congress.
Factor 6 - Personal Contacts FL 6-3 60 points
Contacts are with program managers, top officials of the organization, and such individuals
from outside the organization who represent the budget and program interests of other
Federal agencies, contractors, and private business. Contacts normally take place at formal
budget briefings, or negotiations.
Factor 7 - Purpose of Contacts FL 7-3 120 points
Contacts are made to resolve budgetary issues and problems, to prepare budget requests and
supporting documentation, and to provide information to officials within and outside the
Department. Contacts are to advise officials of the current status of agency programs, and to
persuade them to approve recommended funding requests, budgetary actions, and estimates.
Actively participates in OMB and Congressional reviews of the budget on behalf of the
Department's program and budgetary policies.
Factor 8 - Physical Demands FL 8-1 5 points
The work is sedentary.
Factor 9 - Work Environment FL 9-1 5 points
The work is normally performed in an office setting.
TOTAL POINTS - 3690