Senior Advisor

Clarification from the agency

Applications will be accepted from current employees of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on a permanent or competitive term appointment only.

The incumbent serves in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) as the Senior Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer advising the CFO on all matters related to organizational transformation and budget operations.Responsibilities include the planning, design, and execution of internal reorganizations within OCFO to align structure, workforce, and governance with strategic objectives, conducting comprehensive organizational assessments, including structural analysis and workflow evaluations, developing detailed reorganization implementation plans, including milestones, transition governance, communication strategies, and continuity-of-operations safeguards, establishing and chairing the CFO transition governance bodies to oversee execution and ensure accountability and, monitoring implementation progress, identifying risks and redundancies, and recommending corrective actions to achieve intended efficiencies.

Additional responsibilities include conducting authoritative review of budgetary submissions to ensure alignment with approved resource levels, operating plans, and organizational design, evaluating proposed resource allocations for structural consistency, duplication, or fiscal risk arising from reorganization initiatives, advising senior leadership on fiscal, operational, and policy implications of organizational changes, supporting budget formulation and execution processes by ensuring structural and governance coherence across business lines.

The incumbent will have demonstrated experience with Enterprise Organizational Design and Transformation including substantial participation in complex organizational assessments, restructures, or realignments within a federal agency or comparably large organization, demonstrated ability to design governance and structural models that align with strategic objectives and statutory authorities, experience developing and executing implementation roadmaps for organizational change, including transition governance and continuity-of-operations planning, experience identifying structural redundancies, efficiency gaps, and control weaknesses and implementing corrective solutions.

The incumbent will have Executive-Level Advisory Experience including experience serving as a principal advisor to senior executives (e.g., CFO, Deputy CFO, SES-level leadership) on organizational, fiscal, and governance matters, demonstrated ability to synthesize financial, operational, and policy information into strategic recommendations and, experience briefing senior leadership and facilitating executive decision-making forums.

The Senior Advisor is responsible for recommending organizational metrics and developing and implementing systematic and integrated management plans. Serves as task group leader for special assignments from the Chief Financial Officer or Deputy. As assigned, coordinates with, and remains cognizant of key OCFO interfaces and issues between OCFO and other Offices, with Commission staff and with the Regions. Represents OCFO on intraoffice, interoffice, or interagency Groups, as assigned. Develops papers on policy and programmatic issues. Ensures that activities are appropriately coordinated with other NRC offices and regions.

The Senior Advisor also provides oversight of Federal Budget Formulation and Execution and must have demonstrated experience integrating organizational structure with budget formulation, operating plan development, and execution monitoring, demonstrated understanding of appropriations law, resource allocation controls, and federal financial management principles, experience reviewing and validating resource allocations to ensure alignment with approved levels and strategic priorities and, experience identifying fiscal risks or structural inconsistencies associated with reorganizations or program changes.

As the organization evolves, the incumbent must have experience with Governance Framework Development including, experience designing, standardizing, or modernizing governance structures within a federal organization, demonstrated experience drafting and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), or similar control documents and, experience establishing accountability mechanisms, performance metrics, and internal control frameworks aligned with federal standards (e.g., GAO Green Book internal control concepts).

The incumbent will have demonstrated experience with the development, management and operation of the planning, budgeting and performance management process, related knowledge of central allowance operations, knowledge of OMB requirements (e.g., OMB Circular A-11 'Preparation and Submission of Budget Estimates'), General Accounting Office (GAO) regulations, Treasury regulations, public laws and congressional intent as expressed in authorization and appropriations reports.

Conditions of employment

You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

All information in your resume must be true and accurate.

Conditions of Employment:

• This is a Drug Testing position
• Must be able to meet and maintain security & suitability requirements.

Qualifications

Candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience which has equipped the applicant with the demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized Experience is defined as understanding financial reports, understanding budgetary timelines and transactions including reports to Congress, preparing various reports; analyzing internal controls; and reviewing, analyzing and resolving a variety of issues. Candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level or equivalent by the closing date or no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of the vacancy announcement and before placement in the position.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

1. Knowledge of and experience with Enterprise Organizational Transformation
2. Knowledge of and experience with Federal Budget Formulation and Organizational Alignment
3. Knowledge and experience in utilizing NRC (or other agency) automated financial systems and associated software.
4. Comprehensive knowledge of theories, practices, methods, and techniques related to Appropriations Law and Fiscal Compliance.
5. Ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, senior agency management, presidential appointees (e.g. Commission), members of the public, representatives of professional groups and/or other Federal or State agencies.

A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate must be addressed in your resume. The NRC encourages applicants to provide job experience details in your resume. Applicants may also use the supplemental vacancy question to provide additional information pertaining to the specialized experience and ideal candidate criteria.

PLEASE BE CLEAR AND CONCISE. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

How you will be evaluated

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

When the application process is complete, your application will be reviewed to determine if you meet the job requirements. Your application will be evaluated based on the information provided in your resume and responses to any vacancy questions to determine your level of knowledge, skills, and abilities related to the job requirements. You must respond to all required application questions.

If you are among the top candidates for this position, your application will be referred to the hiring manager for possible interview and selection based upon the number of available vacancies to be filled in each office.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to submit a concise resume that directly relates to this position.

The following documents are required for your application package to be complete. If you fail to provide any required documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

• Resume that includes: 1) personal information such as name, address, contact information; 2) education; 3) detailed work experience including work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment; title, series, grade (if applicable); and 4) other qualifications. Please limit your resume to 2 pages. See below for Additional Resume Information.
• SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action): You must submit a copy of your most recent non-award SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) to verify competitive/excepted status or reinstatement eligibility. Applicants who only submit an award SF-50 will not receive further consideration.

All application materials must be in English.

Additional Resume Information:
Your resume is crucial in our evaluation of your qualifications. Resumes should clearly demonstrate your skills, knowledge, and abilities. Please limit your résumé to 2 pages. To ensure your resume contains all required information, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, please ensure it contains all the required information, and you organize it so we can associate the following information with each experience/position:

• Job title
• Name of employer
• Beginning and ending dates of employment (month/year) format
• Hours worked per week. We will assume full-time unless otherwise stated. We will pro-rate part-time employment in crediting experience.
• Concise, results-focused language for job duties, accomplishments, related skills, and responsibilities to include any supervisory/managerial responsibilities and number of staff supervised (if applicable).
• Series and grade or equivalent (if a federal position).

Do not include a photograph or video of yourself, or any sensitive information (age, date of birth, marital status, protected health information, religious affiliation, social security number, etc.) or other inappropriate material on your resume or cover letter. If your resume contains prohibited information as listed above, your application may be determined ineligible, and you will not receive consideration for this position. We will not access web pages linked on your resume or cover letter, links to social media such as LinkedIn, to determine your qualifications. Cover letters are optional.

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