Summary

This position is located in the Small Business Administration, Administrative Services Center - ASC in Herndon, VA. The incumbent serves as the principal Budget Officer and senior fiscal advisor for the SBA Disaster Enterprise with responsibility for the integrated planning, formulation, execution, oversight, and strategic administration of congressionally appropriated disaster funding supporting nationwide disaster operations and recovery activities.

Duties

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As a Budget Officer at theGS- 0560-14, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serves as the principal advisor to the Center Director, Associate Administrator, executive leadership, and senior management on all issues related to disaster appropriations, supplemental funding authorities, budget execution strategies, acquisition funding integration, resource allocation methodologies, and reimbursable program management.
• Analyzes and applies complex, evolving appropriations laws, ensuring budget analyses, funding recommendations, and execution strategies are technically accurate and fully compliant with funding authorities, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, agency directives, and congressional reporting requirements.
• Represents the Disaster Enterprise in senior-level meetings and delivers expert technical guidance, training, and authoritative budget interpretations to employees, supervisors, program leaders, external partners, and management officials. Advises on disaster appropriations, budget execution requirements, funding procedures, financial controls, acquisition funding coordination, and the implementation of enterprise budget policies.
• Collaborates with executive leadership and program officials to address complex funding challenges, develop long-term financial forecasts, refine enterprise allocation strategies, and conduct strategic fiscal analyses in support of nationwide recovery initiatives and high-level decision-making.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen
• You must successfully complete a background investigation.
• A credit check is required.

Qualifications

GS-14: One year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service, obtained in either the private or public sector: These qualifications must be clearly referenced in your resume.

• Formulating and executing an enterprise-wide fiscal budget for nationwide operations, including financial forecasts, expenditure projections, and trends analyses to guide strategic funding decisions concerning emergency acquisitions, reimbursable funding, and operational resource utilization; and
• Representing an enterprise at high-level meetings and consultations with the Office of the Chief Financial Officers (CFO), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), senior leadership, procurement officials, and other federal entities on funding requirements, appropriations execution, financial reporting requirements, acquisition funding integration, and enterprise fiscal planning; and
• Developing and reviewing multi-year federal appropriations funding recommendations and execution strategies for multimillion-dollar programs, ensuring technical accuracy, alignment with congressional intent, compliance with fiscal statutes, and support of executive leadership priorities; coordinated with congressional staff and agency leadership to finalize budget allocations and monitor compliance; and
• Developing and implementing enterprise-wide budget execution procedures, fiscal accountability mechanisms, internal financial controls, reporting frameworks, and standardized budget guidance governing disaster appropriations ensuring timely and accurate funding allocations.

There is no education substitution for this grade level.

If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site:

General Schedule Qualification Standards

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Generally, time in Non-Pay status as a federal employee is not creditable towards the specialized experience requirement listed above.

All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 06/30/2026.

Education

APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with a positive education requirement.) Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Verify School accreditation. All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

*** If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. *** For further information, click on: Foreign Education.

Additional information

This is a non-bargaining unit position.

This is not a drug testing designated position (TDP).

Career and InterAgency Career Transition Assistance Programs: Are programs that applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed.

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) is a program that helps "surplus" or "displaced" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job in their current agency (intra-agency, i.e. SBA employees only).

Inter-Agency Career Transition Assistance (ICTAP) is a program that helps "surplus" or "displaced" federal employees improve their chances of finding a new job at another agency (inter-agency; i.e. not applying to their current or former agency).

You are eligible for CTAP/ICTAP if:

1. You are a current federal employee who meets the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee meaning you have received official notice that your job is no longer needed or that you will lose your job by Reduction-in-Force (RIF).

2. Your agency, or the agency to which you are applying, is accepting applications from within or outside of the permanent workforce.

3. The position to which you are applying MUST BE in the Local Commuting Area of the position of record from which you are being displaced.

4. You meet the qualifications and other requirements of the job for which you are applying. This includes being rated as well-qualified for the position (score of 85 or better based on your responses to the competencies and associated questions listed within the assessment)..

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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