Budget Specialist, HQ USSF/S1 ETM

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Joint Base San Antonio, TX is searching for a Budget Specialist for HQ USSF/S1 ETM (NH-0501-03, GS 12/13 equivalent).

Description:
We are looking for an NH-03 level Operations Research Analyst to manage, analyze, and optimize the USSF Military Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Program. In this critical, mid-to-senior professional role, you will be the hands-on expert responsible for translating complex programmatic data into strategic budgeting solutions, ensuring our Guardians are seamlessly positioned to meet global mission demands. On a daily basis, you will leverage relational databases and tools like Excel, Power BI, and SAS to clean high-volume financial data, build predictive models, monitor current-year execution to prevent Anti-Deficiency Act (ADA) violations, and draft persuasive issue papers to defend budget requirements. If you are a highly analytical self-starter who excels at cross-staff collaboration, enjoys solving complex data puzzles, and is ready to play a direct role in supporting the readiness of the world's premier space power, apply today and help us move the force that protects the high ground.

Ideal Candidate:
- Strong proficiency in relational databases and visualization tools (e.g., executing SQL/SAS queries, designing basic schemas, and building Power BI dashboards) to analyze and clean massive programmatic datasets. Defense Financial Management
- Solid understanding of the PPBE process, the Military Personnel Appropriation (MPA), and federal appropriations law, with practical experience managing current-year budget execution and tracking variances. Staff & Program Coordination
- Proven experience in a staff officer or program manager role, with history using systems like ETMS2 and ATAAPS, coordinating across matrixed teams, and drafting official background papers, briefings, and operational checklists.


Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of the principles, theories, techniques, practices, mission, and organizational structure of the specific program and or functional field to support USSF wide personnel/manpower/services program administration responsibilities, including the interrelationships between program requirements, the Future-Years Defense Plan (FYDP), and the Military Personnel Appropriation (MPA).
2. Knowledge of the laws, regulations, principles, and practices of personnel/manpower/services program administration, and of military financial management concepts-including appropriations law, the Anti-Deficiency Act (ADA), the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.
3. Knowledge of sustainment program inspection requirements, reports, and program terms, as well as knowledge of common management principles to provide advisory services and inspect assigned programs, evaluate compliance.
4. Ability to exercise initiative and think strategically-independently identifying actual and potential problem areas, forecasting future program requirements from trend and historical data, and developing and presenting sound courses of action (COAs) and recommendations to senior leadership.
5. Ability to prepare special studies and staff reports, including the ability to meet emergency and/or changing program requirements-such as lapses in appropriations, prioritization of mission-critical and safety-of-life moves, and time-sensitive actions-within available resources and with minimum sacrifice of quality or quantity of work.
6. Skill in utilizing relational databases and analytical software (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SAS) to extract, merge, and clean high-volume programmatic or financial data. Includes the ability to design database schemas, write custom queries to retrieve targeted datasets, and maintain data integrity from extracted data sets across multiple enterprise-level systems.
7. Ability to establish effective working relationships and to communicate well with others and familiar with utilizing communication platforms such as MS Teams, including preparing and conducting formal and informal briefings.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Employee must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
• PCS / Relocation funding is not authorized.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.

Qualifications

The 0501 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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.

Resume: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:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. 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
4. 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.

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