Dexis Consulting Group is recruiting for an Education Program Budget Analyst that will be embedded within USAID’s Bureau Office of Education (ED) supporting the Program Team.
USAID’s Office of Education (ED) in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3) supports the implementation of the USAID Education Strategy, which has the following strategic goals:
- All Children Reading: improved reading skills for learners in the primary grades
- Education in Crisis and Conflict: improved educational outcomes for children and youth living in crisis and conflict
- Putting Education to Work: increased employment for youth; and
- Higher Education Systems: strengthened capacity to achieve country development goals.
The Budget Analyst is responsible for all analysis, input, and deliverables associated with budgeting and financial management for the E3/ED portfolio and the more comprehensive education-sector portfolio. The Budget Analyst’s focus assignments that cross organizational lines and well as areas of specialization within education. Duties include, but are not limited to, the following: budget formulation oversight, budget execution oversight, program planning, and other duties as assigned.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Budget Formulation & Oversight
- Serves as the technical authority on budget formulation for the office and sector; recommends and justifies the annual resource allocation for education program and operating expense budgets
- Interprets and assesses the impact of new and revised Congressional legislation on the formulation of education resource allocations
- Develops new methods and techniques for establishing resource planning parameters, frameworks and guidance to inform long-term and annual planning for the office and sector
- Analyzes funding against performance metrics and evaluations, and develops options and recommendations for the impact of performance outcomes on funding levels
- The incumbent analyzes ad hoc funding request and develops options and recommendations on requests that can be undertaken within existing resource levels and advises on the impact of efforts that require additional resources
Budget Execution & Oversight
- Analyzes final appropriations actions by the Congress, including appropriated amounts by budget account and earmarks and directives
- Performs budget execution work, in coordination with education and program office management, involving the most complex financial management and budgeting processes –including adapting budgetary policies, analytical methods, and regulatory procedures for use in ensuring consistency in the linkage between overall program budget and resource allocations and development priorities
- Listens to, works with, and advises education technical staff and management on budget-related items and requirements
Other Budget and Financial Management Tasks
- As an expert on long-term, strategic budgeting and financial management, recommends and participates in developing strategies for new programs, project designs, and other office and sector needs
- Reviews long- and short-range plans, resource projections, priorities, justifications, etc
- Makes recommendations on planning efforts that can be undertaken within existing resource levels and advises on the impact of efforts that require additional resources
- Initiates appropriate action and manages the preparation to ensure programs and documents are in compliance with USAID policies and procedures
- Plans, develops and presents budget materials for senior management in a way that is accessible to individuals with little budgeting expertise
- Pro-actively problem solves budgetary issues as they arise
- Serves as the Office’s resident expert in budgets, always “on call” for all questions and advice
- Prepares various forms of data visualization of complex materials
Other Duties as Assigned
- Is responsive to office demands as priorities shift
Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years of professional experience managing large, complex budgets, preferably in the fields of international education or international development, 5 years preferred
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
- Demonstrated commitment to producing outstanding work as a member of a growing, fast moving, hard-working team
- Strong organizational and analytical skills; detail-oriented; ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks; and able to learn quickly under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to successfully and effectively liaise with people within and across departments in a multi-cultural environment; confident communicator with proven negotiation skills
- Ability to work independently, resourcefully and to own initiative, with flexibility to changing priorities and an eagerness to learn under pressure
- Experience with information management systems, data analysis, and data visualization
- Experience identifying and communicating, in human terms, the stories contained within complex data
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