Program Analyst (Data Management)

This position is located in Washington, DC. The ideal candidate for the Program Analyst position with an emphasis in data management will be familiar with a range of methods and technologies for analyzing, visualizing, and communicating results from diverse data sources to varied audiences. The candidate should also have experience in graphic design to create clear, visually compelling reports, dashboards, presentations, and other data products. Major duties: What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve as the Program Analyst within the Grants Program Directorates division. Typical assignments include: Conducting studies of employee and organizational efficiency and productivity; recommend improvements to organizational structure, staffing, work methods, and procedures. Extracting, integrating, and analyzing data using computer programming languages and tools, including when requirements or specifications are incomplete or evolving. Developing management and program-evaluation plans, procedures, and methodologies to support data-driven organizational solutions. Developing or revising administrative program policies, regulations, goals, and objectives. Evaluating and advising on the organization, methods, and procedures used to provide administrative support services, including records management, communications, directives, forms, files, and documentation. 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. Requirements: To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for a Public Trust as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below. Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.