Total 314 business management project planning job vacancies in Others category in USA, DC, Washington (20 M St SE)

Brief Summary of Duties

The incumbent conducts comprehensive performance analysis of teams and branch caseloads to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures. They consult with staff for input on case management practices, policy interpretation, and issues, while conducting operational analyses and management studies. Responsibilities include planning and conducting management surveys and audits, developing improved procedures to prevent fraud, managing complex social service programs, planning budgets, and preparing reports and presentations. Additionally, the incumbent supports policy dialogue, provides program support across geographic regions, and evaluates the effectiveness of policy reforms and social science strategies.

Incumbent actively engages in assisting IPRO management with administrative and technical support for the annual Office of Inspector General audit of VA's compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019, VA's annual reporting to paymentaccuracy.gov of its payment integrity activities, and any required annual reporting to VA's Congressional committees for noncompliance with legislation. The Management Analyst performs as a Contracting Officer's Representative for VA's Payment Oversight Program (POP) services contract. Incumbent also assists with administrative functions within OBO, IPRO, and FSICO. Incumbent works closely with management analysts and OBO Managers on the Director's staff and other administrative personnel to ensure efficiency in operations and maintain a consistent approach to the overall management of the Office of Business Oversight. Incumbent works in administrative support of the entire organization on budget, reporting, and functional activities.

Duties include:

• Complete all phases of program/projects to include conception, planning, research, development, evaluation, and maintenance and/or distribution. Gather, analyze, develop, and evaluate information relating to program and project operations.
• Prepare and/or present original presentations on special projects and organization-specific topics to management officials.
• Analyze specific management and productivity improvement initiatives, monitors the implementation of approved management initiatives, and recommends changes, when necessary, based on follow up evaluation(s).
• Provide support for coordinated and complete end of year reporting on VA's payment integrity activities to paymentaccuracy.gov. Supports the development of reporting templates and coordinates with points of contact in affected VA Administrations and Staff Offices and concurrences to ensure legislatively required reporting to VA Congressional committees occurs timely and includes all required information and data.
• Act as the COR on VA's Payment Oversight Program and services contracts utilized by OBO, and VA Administrations, which includes ensuring deliverables are reviewed by Subject Matter Experts for quality and accepted timely, invoices are paid accurately, and is fully responsive to questions from the Contracting Officer and other CORs.
• Track, analyze, and provide oversight of a variety of administratively related special projects, which may be specifically requested by management or self-initiated.
• Maintain confidentiality as an advisor to senior management on staff disciplinary actions and subsequent agency policy requirements.
• Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of administrative functions and operations in meeting established goals and objectives.
• Coordinate and prepare administrative staff reports, briefings, etc., as requested by staff personnel for Directors and Associate Directors.
• Provides advice and recommendations on the pros and cons of proposed office strategies, develops, and recommends changes in program objectives, methods of operation and emphasis.
• Adjust resource utilization to correct deficiency situations, extend merit situations, and provide the necessary balance in the overall efficiency of the office operation.
• Coordinate ad hoc team efforts in conducting comprehensive studies or projects dealing with significant changes in workforce distribution, positions, or related organizational structures.
• Conduct studies of employee/organizational efficiency and productivity, and recommending changes or improvements in organization, staffing, work methods and procedures.
• Participate in the formulation, presentation, execution, and analysis of the organizations' budget. Participates in developing the annual budget formulation and/or execution process. Evaluates financial trends and determines compliance with agency guidance.
• Review and control costs of Departmental operations and reviews and evaluates justifications for major expenditures for improving operations including personnel and equipment in close liaison with the OBO budget officer and senior leadership.
• Ensure travel, training, and contract costs are included in budget proposals and are monitored to ensure fiscal management.
• Administer a Records Management Program for the IPRO and FISCO organizations, a single mission program consisting of related functions. Develop tools promoting effective coordination of a Records Management Program.

• Collaborates and coordinates with the Portfolio Management team in the development and execution of the annual budget formulation.
• Performs in depth, rigorous analysis of budget requests by employing techniques such as cost benefit analysis, program tradeoffs and exploring alternative methods of funding.
• Leads and advises projects focused on the development, testing, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of software and hardware.
• Analyzes and evaluates, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations in meeting established goals and objectives.
• Develops and implements process improvement controls, techniques, and mechanisms that improve upon Office mission functions.

Specific duties include:

• Provides mastery space and program planning to develop project requirements for renovations/construction.

• Manages programs, operations, policies, and objectives in accordance with Federal Property Management Regulations and capital investment processes, legislative and regulatory policy, and their effect on project initiatives.

• Strong ability to accomplish work effectively and maintain harmonious customer relationships with the field stations and VA Central Office staff.

• Provides expert knowledge of standard construction practices and techniques applicable to commercial construction of multi-story structures. Knowledge and ability to apply building code requirements and proper use of building materials to commercial construction of general office space. Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications and to communicate understanding of documents both orally and in written communication.

• Manages the development and implementation of VBACO employee fire and safety criteria; participation in the orientation of contract security personnel, as well as monitoring their adherence to contractual obligations. Assumes responsibility for developing appropriate evacuation measures in case of fire or other emergencies at VBACO. Coordinates VBACO fire and safety and develop appropriate evacuation measures in case of fire or other emergencies as part of an OMS team.

As a Management Analyst, you will perform the following duties:

• Advise and make suggestions to Human Capital Director of process improvement programs.
• Liaise with assigned HR Recruitment Specialists to ensure job opportunity announcement (JOA) assessment questions provide an opportunity to accurately capture the best-skilled candidates to perform the most important and pertinent job functions.
• Serve as agency training officer for MBDA. Supports MBDA management by coordinating the development, delivery, and evaluation of all agency training and skills development programs, including: Identification of MBDA's human capital (i.e. knowledge, skills, ability and/or talent) required to execute and deliver its mission, goals objectives, and performance metrics.
• Write formal internal guidelines, policies and procedures for areas of assignment, and regularly monitors, reviews and analyzes their documentation procedures and controls.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, Incumbent will serve as a Management Analyst assigned to the Assets Management Branch, Business Management Division, Office of National Continuity Programs. Typical assignments include:

- Analyzing and monitoring asset management resources, performing inventories, and preparing detailed reports, as well as providing timely, responsive, and quality customer service.
- Analyzing, evaluating, and making recommendations regarding the efficiency of assets management operations.
- Maintaining a process to track, analyze, and report on organizational assets, and presenting program status reports.
- Utilizing Microsoft software and other applications to prepare documents, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, and other output for management.
- Assisting senior analysts/specialists by providing supportive documents, analysis, and feedback to monitor and track assigned and unassigned property.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-07. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a Management Assistant, you will:

• Develop and implement new systems or administrative processes to ensure effective, timely accomplishment of duties throughout the organization. Determine effectiveness of administrative processes and uses considerable judgment in correcting inefficiencies.
• Prepare charts, graphs, or narrative summaries for management or program analysis reports from material provided by higher-level employees.
• Suggest changes to operations or improvements within existing policies. Identify and refer serious problems or questions, requiring detailed analysis or extensive database modification, to the AO/FSS or appropriate management official.
• Assist AO/FSS in developing financial plans, budget estimates, narrative and statistical reports and other reports requested by national and regional management staff.
• Assist AO/FSS in performing budget administration functions. Ensure accuracy of a variety of automated reports: NAR Daily Transactions; NAR Status of Funds, NAR Open Obligation Line History; Ensure all accounts in each budget activity are properly charged, reviews budget and accounting reports to ensure accuracy, performs data entry, etc.

• You will conduct studies of manpower issues impacting an agency (e.g., organization structure, authorizations, end-strength, staffing requirements).
• You will conduct analyses (e.g., cost-benefit, cost sensitivity, risk) to assist customers in resource decisions.
• You will develop documentation or reports to summarize results of manpower assessments or studies.
• You will develop oral presentations to report on manpower studies, imbalances, or deficiencies.
• You will analyze metrics and program data to recommend process improvements.
• You will collaborate with senior leaders to identify or analyze skills gap issues associated with mission changes.
• You will develop strategic performance measurement data to address the linkage between strategic measures and operational requirements.

• Analyzes, forecasts, and interprets functions associated with the management and control of resources or funds, tracking and control of funds for the organization’s programs and activities.
• Furnishes technical interpretation and/or guidance to the financial managers regarding finance system requirements.
• Communicates in writing, to present presentations, correspondence, and reports.
• Conducts research into regulatory material to locate appropriate procedures for various financial transactions.
• Analyzes facts, identifies problems, reports findings, makes conclusions, and recommends corrective or other appropriate action in carrying out routine analytical assignments.

As a Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist (Deputy Director) at the GS-0089-15, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serving as a Deputy Director in ODR&R, providing leadership, guidance, and direction for policy issues, operational issues, and developing strategy; and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to promulgate more positive recovery outcomes, resilient recovery results, and more positive customer experiences.
• Developing plans and recommending policies regarding federal support for state, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts.
• Directing, coordinating, and overseeing work through subordinate team members.
• Leading and/or assisting in the development of federal support for state, local, territorial, and tribal recovery efforts, performing unusually difficult assignments that require occupational expertise and judgment to support particularly complex program activities on a continuous and frequent basis.
• Providing expertise in areas related to planning for the health and social service impacts of emergencies and disasters and federal coordination of support for state, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts.
• Participating in interagency committees to advance pre- and post-disaster State, local, tribal, and territorial recovery efforts, including disaster-related impacts to health and social services.
• Working with senior management to support the effective and efficient DR&R-wide and SBA-wide recovery efforts to all manner of disasters and emergencies impacting health and social services, promoting the integration of federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts following disasters.
• Maintaining liaison with medical, scientific, health policy, and research communities to exchange information and ideas regarding new and emerging research, technologies, and trends and on issues related to supporting incident management and domestic readiness, response, and recovery operations, and to advance the field of disaster recovery.

• Washington, District of Columbia location - $163,964.00 to $191,900.00 per year
• Atlanta, Georgia location - $151,894.00 to $191,900.00 per year
• Houston, Texas location - $165,761.00 to $191,900.00 per year

• This is a Permanent position, which is a competitive service position with a full-time work schedule.
• If required to travel to a disaster site, you may encounter hazardous working and/or living conditions, for example, no water or electricity and/or minimal lodging facilities.
• By applying for this position with SBA's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience, you can enjoy challenging but satisfying work and join a highly motivated and diverse team that helps families and businesses rebuild their lives after a disaster.
• If required to travel to a disaster site, you may encounter hazardous working and/or living conditions, for example, no water or electricity and/or minimal lodging facilities.
• Mandatory Overtime: In order to respond quickly and efficiently to disaster survivors, substantial compensated overtime hours may be required heighten Disaster Activities.
• This position is also being announced under Merit Promotion Procedures, announcement # MP-25-DRD-12614487
• In order to receive consideration as a status candidate, you must apply to the Merit Promotion announcement.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur within 180 days from the closing date.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, overseeing the three Branches of the Award Administration Division within the Grant Programs Directorate. Typical assignments include:

• Leading a division comprised of highly skilled and certified Grants Management Specialists with financial policy and oversight responsibilities.
• Serving as an expert and advisor on complex grants management matters to the Director of the Grant Operations Administration, and other executives, on a routine basis.
• Providing strategic input on the development of Agency-wide grants management policies, practices and initiatives.
• Managing a multi-billion dollar and highly complex grants portfolio; representing the Agency as a "Steward of the Public Trust" regarding accountability of and oversight of federal funds and administrative and audit processes.
• Providing technical assistance, training, and mentorship as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the federal grants enterprise to recipients, subrecipients and other internal and external stakeholders.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Grants Management Specialist in FEMA's Region Ten Grants Division, Non-Disaster Grants Branch.

Typical assignments include:

• Implementing and interpreting grants management policies, standards, regulations, practices, and procedures within the region.
• Reviewing and processing requests for amendments, extensions, changes, and funding awards and/or de-obligation and closeout.
• Conducting analysis of Federal Financial Reports/Program Progress Reports for completeness and accuracy.
• Conducting risk assessment of grant recipients for all open grant awards and preparing fiscal year monitoring schedule in compliance with the requirements of FEMA monitoring policy and guidance.
• Reviewing and recommending updates and changes to internal controls and/or procedures based on continual assessment of functional activities.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

Promotion Potential: Future promotions will be dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and administrative approval.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Sharing responsibility with the Deputy Administrator for formulation and execution of the programs, policies, and processes of the Grants Division, which operates the full range of pre-award and post-award functions.
• Serving as a consultant and advisor to the Administrator and other Department officials on matters relating to Grants Division activities.
• Representing the Deputy Administrator and Associate Deputy Administrator in formulating and administering long-range and current policies and programs relating to grant programs.
• Investigating innovative means to increase efficiency, promote evaluation and impacts analysis, and reduce reporting burden for grants, while ensuring government-wide priorities are met.
• Recommending changes to update and correct deficiencies to the Grants Division's policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Providing guidance and decisions in establishing priorities and procedures involving policy, setting deadlines concerning negotiation, execution, and post-administration of grant agreements.
• Providing expert management advice to the Deputy Administrator on broad and complex grant administration and systems issues within a wide-range of AMS programs.
• Identifying and recommending training, resources, technological, and process improvements to promote efficiency gains in grants management across all grant programs.
• Ensuring adequate managerial and financial controls in accordance with applicable policy and directives concerning budget, federal assistance, procurement, personnel, and other administrative matters.

• You will serve as a Refit Manager to coordinate advanced refit planning efforts for our fleet of Submersible Ship Ballistic Nuclear (SSBN) Submarines.
• You will mitigate complex factors such as schedule changes, ship conditions, system line-up and maintenance plan changes.
• You will perform logistical review of work performed on TRIDENT Class Submarines.
• You will develop and maintain applicable TRIDENT Class Availability Work Packages (AWP).
• You will analyze, evaluate, deconflict, and recommend alternative solutions for Refit Work Packages.
• You will serve as the Liaison in the development and implementation of new and revised planned maintenance requirements.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Financial Management Specialist position, you will apply a wide range of standard practices to selected phases of the budget and financial administration processes. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Preparing a wide variety of financial reports.
• Recommending procedural and policy revisions to senior leadership
• Correlating non-fiscal program data with financial information to show cause-and-effect relationships.
• Analyzing financial management programs to develop guidance for implementation.
• Managing special projects related to financial programs.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

This position has promotion potential to the IC-12. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.