MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST (COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS)

A GS-0343-12, MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST (COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS): Develops and modifies Special Military Projects, Cooperative Agreements, Grants, General Terms & Conditions (GT&C), FS Form 7600s, MOUs, support agreements, and related operational and business procedures. Manages cooperative agreement duties, including pre-negotiation, reimbursements, and administration from inception to closeout. Plans and oversees complex long-term (5-year) Cooperative Agreements, ensuring state contracting operations, resources, and services meet objectives using analytical and evaluative methods.

Independently manages sensitive cooperative agreement issues, ensuring compliance with regulatory and enforcement programs through audits, controls, and evaluations. Coordinates with the state Military Department Resource Manager and NGB Contracting to support the state National Guard (NG) mission and programs by providing planning and analysis expertise. Prepares and negotiates support agreements, MOAs, and MOUs.

Works with State Program Managers, the Department of Military Affairs, and the State Adjutant General to implement the Cooperative Agreement Consolidated Personnel Plan. Negotiates agreements with ARNG, ANG units, and Federal/non-Federal partners, including USAF, USN, USMC, USAR, DIA, DLA, DARPA, GSA, USDA, NASA, and others. Uses qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze and measure the efficiency and productivity of GT&C and Construction Cooperative Agreements, and related technical programs (e.g., ARNG/ANG Facilities Operations, Security Guard Program, ChalleNGe/StarBase Youth Programs, Dining Facility Operations, Aviation Training, Telecommunications, and Family Readiness Programs).

Prepares project papers, staff reports, and briefings for NGB PARC, NGB Directorate Staff, and state managers to ensure program compliance and foster understanding of the Cooperative Agreements Program. Advises Federal staff and non-Federal recipients to achieve program goals. Communicates administrative updates, resolves issues, and provides leadership to workgroups within the grants management community.

Conducts quarterly Joint Review Program (JRP) inspections and reconciliations of federal and state records, assigning corrective actions as needed. Serves as a technical authority in policy and procedural reviews, responding to inquiries and preparing position papers and special reports. Evaluates mission effectiveness of the Cooperative Agreements Program by conducting internal reviews, evaluations, and checklists to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

Oversees scheduled and unscheduled evaluations of managerial, personnel, and technical aspects of Cooperative Agreements. Coordinates between the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Defense Contracting and Acquisition Agency, National Guard Bureau, USPFO, state agencies, and other Federal and state offices. Ensures compliance with management controls, audits, and regulations for federally reimbursed state facilities and services.

As the Cooperative Agreements Program and Grants Officer Representative, conducts periodic inspections of federally funded projects and ensures safety regulations are followed. Performs technical reviews of documents such as MCAs, MCCAs, Special Military Project CAs, and CA Appendices related to facilities, environmental resources, security, telecommunications, aviation base operations, dining facilities, transportation, logistics, and other programs. Recommends approval or disapproval to the USPFO for cases requiring endorsement.

Coordinates and attends meetings with high-level officials, including the DA, NGB, USPFO, the Adjutant General's Joint Staff, and state/local officials. Conducts cooperative agreement council meetings to update policies and procedures. Oversees financial and regulatory reconciliation reviews with Federal and state program managers and ensures quality control for all MCA, MCCA, and support agreement programs.

Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED Degree Required: N/A Degree Required to qualify with Education Only (No Specialized Experience): N/A You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position. If you are selected for a vacancy that requires a specific degree and/or coursework you will be required to provide official transcripts prior to appointment.

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience: Not Applicable.

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience.

Your responses must be supported by your application package or you may be excluded from consideration for this position.

You may also be excluded from consideration if you indicate that you are unwilling to accept the lower grade and determination is made that you are not qualified at the higher grade. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words.

You may refer to position descriptions, as well as the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed above. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics).

NOTE: You do not have to respond to the KSA's separately but your resume should contain sufficient information to demonstrate possession of the KSA's. Knowledge: of agency programs, activities, missions, policies, & objectives of management principles, processes, & analytical/evaluative methods to assess program efficiency & effectiveness of fiscal law & its application in regulatory or enforcement programs Skill: in program evaluation & measurement techniques to assess compliance with agency rules & regulations and evaluate program accomplishments in performing management tasks such as developing, implementing, analyzing, evaluating, and advising on processes and procedures in planning, organizing, & directing team efforts for developing and implementing Cooperative Agreements in ensuring internal compliance with policies, laws, & regulations governing government programs Ability to evaluate government programs for operational effectiveness, efficiency, & productivity, ensuring compliance with established policies, laws, & regulations to apply analytical and evaluative methods to assess and improve the Cooperative Agreement Program to effectively negotiate with management to gain acceptance of recommendations involving significant resources or procedural changes to identify, analyze, & resolve complex programmatic and operational challenges to develop & implement improvements in the Cooperative Agreement Program and related procedures to lead & coordinate team efforts in planning, organizing, & implementing Cooperative Agreements to advise management, present recommendations, & foster understanding of program objectives & changes to manage substantial resources & oversee significant changes in established procedures in selecting & applying evaluation & measurement techniques to determine compliance & assess program outcomes

If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). **This is an obligated position (current occupant is on a Military Tour). If an individual employed in the excepted civil service accepts this position, he/she will receive a Temporary Promotion. If the military tour member, having reemployment rights to this position, does not exercise his/her rights within 5 years, time limitation may be removed and promotion will become permanent IAW 5 CFR 335.103 (c) (i).*** EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: The WA National Guard is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service or other non-merit factor.

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To apply for this position, you must complete the online application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12945909 A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application.

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To apply for this position, you are required to submit a complete application package. If you fail to provide this documents/information, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and will not be considered any further.

Resumes must be in your own words. Resumes that are verbatim, from this announcement, will not be considered. A complete application package includes: Resume must NOT exceed two (2) pages, IAW Merit Hiring Plan and must include: Contact information Full Name Email Address Phone Number Relevant work history that demonstrates specialized experience for the position you are applying to Position Title Organization/Department/Unit Hours worked per week Dates (format must include Month and Year) of employment Duties performed Series and grade for federal positions, if held Resumes exceeding 2 pages will not be considered.

For more guidance please see new resume guidance. If your resume includes the below listed content, it will not be used to make an eligibility/qualification determination, and you will not be considered for this vacancy. Classified or government sensitive information Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal information, such as age, gender, religious affiliation, etc.

Do not include encrypted and/or digitally signed documents because they become corrupted and you will not receive credit for submitting them. If you are claiming Military Spouse Preference, you MUST include a copy of the Military Spouse PPP Self-Certification Checklist along with the documents identified on the checklist to verify your eligibility for MSP. Acceptable documentation of your preference eligibility includes at a minimum: A copy of the PCS orders Military Spouse PPP Self-Certification Checklist Your marriage certificate or license (if you are not on the PCS Orders).

If you believe you are eligible for Veteran's Preference in hiring, you must claim preference and provide supporting documentation.* To determine if you qualify for Veteran's Preference in hiring, please use the following link provided by the U.S. Department of Labor.* Completed SF15, etc. (SF15 is required for 10-point preference) You will not receive 10 point preference without a completed SF15. The SF15 will indicate additional required documents, that you MUST provide with your application to receive 10 point preference.

Other support documentation (optional or required based on the vacancy announcement) Cover Letter SF-50 (latest non-award SF-50) Transcript (s) *For current National Guard/Reserve members, please document your military work experience as follows: (You may adjust the format, so that you do not exceed the two (2) page resume limit, as long as your resume clearly reflects your military employment history.) List month joined (to/from) based on your enlistment contract (DD4) or (Oath) for Officers. If you have gaps in service, list them separately. Example:04 Sep 2019 to 03 Sep 2023 Washington Air National Guard Traditional Member 20 hours per month POSITIONS TITLE MOS/AFSC Personnel Superintendent 3S091 Duties Military Orders During this period: (list multiple periods if everything else is the same: Order Type, Duties, & Purpose 04 Nov 2019 to 03 Dec 2019 40 hours per week 15 Mar 2020 to 14 May 2020 40 hours per week Type of Order: ADOS/AT/ST/AGR Order Purpose: Duties: *If there are multiple purposes on a single order (ie.

BMT then Tech Training/AIT), list specific periods. Example: Order cover 02 Sep 2020 to 12 Mar 2021: List 02 Sep 2020 to 01 Nov 2020 as BMT and 02 Nov 2020 to 12 Mar 2021 as Tech Training/AIT