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Program Analyst
Geological Survey · Posted 3 days ago
Hybrid Salt Lake City, UT $90K – $116K Apply by Oct 15, 2026 Management And Program Analysis ENTJINTJINTPISTJ
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You will serve as a Program Analyst. The position's duty station will be a USGS facility to be negotiated upon selection. You may be required to travel overnight away from home occasionally. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. Salary: $89,508 (Step 1) to $116,362 (Step 10) *Salary listed is for Rest of United States; salary will be set in accordance with pay scale for selected location. *First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the step 1 rate.
What You'll Do
- →Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following: Performs advanced evaluation of programmatic or business operations, drafts proposed findings and recommendations for improvements and decision making.
- →Uses qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to analyze program-related data and evaluate, identify, and analyze program or policy issues.
- →Formulates, monitors and refines program performance metrics and measures.
- →Coordinate and communicate with individuals or groups both within and outside of the agency to share work efforts, coordinate collaborative projects, provide advice, communicate status and solve problems.
- →Drafts, reviews and edits, written materials, which can include informational/decision memoranda, talking points for senior level managers' meetings (from informal to international), and proposals/justifications for decision makers.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or National.
- ✓Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
- ✓Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
- ✓Direct Deposit participation required.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more, visit www.dhs.gov/EVerify/.
- ✓You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.
- ✓This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized.
- ✓In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 175b9d56-2736-4968-be7f-4d221878bcd6
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