Program Analyst

Role Overview

The Program Analyst supports management of facilities, assets, maintenance, and budget-related operations within the National Fish Hatchery System. The role focuses on keeping property and operational data accurate, improving administrative processes, and helping maintain efficient use of space, resources, and funding.

Key Duties

• Help run a balanced asset and maintenance program for National Fish Hatchery System facilities, including quality checks on real property and operational information.
• Maintain and improve the Federal Real Property Profile and related data records.
• Review and streamline administrative processes for asset management and the allocation of operations and maintenance resources.
• Support cost-saving efforts and efficient management of owned space.
• Develop, test, and train others on asset and budget systems such as SAMMS and FBMS.
• Use asset and budget systems to build 5-year repair and rehabilitation plans.
• Plan, track, and report on condition assessments across facilities.
• Prepare detailed data on fixed assets, including operations and maintenance expenses.
• Identify maintenance gaps and quantify the Service’s unfunded maintenance backlog.
• Coordinate Maintenance Action Team requests and assignments related to aquatic conservation.
• Prepare maintenance and construction budget requests using standard procedures and monitor corrective actions, project spending, and completed work.
• Work with internal and external teams, including DOI workgroups and infrastructure committees, to improve stewardship of field station assets.

Career Ladder

This is a multi-grade position that may be filled at a lower grade and advanced later. The listed duties reflect the full-performance GS-13 level. At lower grades, work will be narrower and performed with less independence. Advancement depends on performance, availability of higher-level work, and funding. Promotion may occur without further competition once all regulatory, qualification, and performance conditions are met, but a lower-grade appointment does not ensure later promotion.

Conditions of Employment

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national.
• Merit promotion candidates must satisfy the time-in-grade rules under 5 CFR 300, Subpart F.
• Selection is subject to a background investigation and suitability determination.
• A one-year probationary period is required; continued employment is reviewed against fitness and public-interest standards.
• People assigned male at birth after 12-31-59 must be registered with Selective Service.

Qualification Requirements

Only experience and education completed by 06/25/2026 will be considered.

GS-12: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-11 in federal service. Relevant experience includes assisting with testing and maintenance of real property or financial/business systems, reviewing policy or guidance for asset, operations, or budget allocation management, suggesting ways to improve program efficiency, and working with managers and staff across offices on asset or budget issues. Your resume must clearly show at least 3 of these 4 areas.

GS-13: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 in federal service. Relevant experience includes leading testing and maintenance reviews for real property and financial/business systems, using systems to improve asset and operations management, track spending, document asset and budget needs, quantify maintenance and operational work, and report accomplishments; developing new policy or guidance for infrastructure assets or program operations; revising procedures to improve efficiency; and working with interagency teams on facility asset and operational management. Your resume must clearly show at least 4 of these 5 areas.

Experience may be paid or unpaid, including volunteer service through national service programs and other organizations. Such experience may count if it demonstrates the required competencies, knowledge, and skills.

Applicants must also meet area-of-consideration rules, time-in-grade requirements, time-after-competitive-appointment requirements, and OPM qualification standards by the closing date.

Education Requirements

If you use education or a combination of education and experience to qualify, you must submit transcripts showing grades, credits, major, GPA or class rank, institution name, and student name. If coursework is not obvious from the transcript, or if part of a course should count toward the requirement, a signed memo from the registrar or another authorized official is needed to confirm the creditable portion and equivalent units. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable for application, but official transcripts will be required if selected.

If more than 10% of undergraduate coursework was completed on a pass/fail basis, any superior academic achievement claim must rely on class standing or membership in an honor society.

For graduate study, one academic year equals the credit hours your graduate school defines as one year of full-time study. If your school does not define it, 18 semester hours or 27 quarter hours will be accepted as one year of full-time graduate study.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a recognized credential evaluation service or receive full credit from an accredited U.S. college or university.

Additional Information

No PCS relocation entitlement is authorized.

Telework is limited to emergency or natural-disaster situations only.

One or more vacancies may be filled from this announcement in the advertised office or another U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office within the local commuting area.

Department of the Interior Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) rules apply. Eligible applicants must provide their latest performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and the most recent SF-50 showing position, grade, and duty location. To qualify under CTAP, candidates must be well-qualified, score at least 85 on the questionnaire, and be able to perform the job duties upon entry.

Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities.

By applying, candidates agree that their application materials and related personal information may be shared with other DOI offices that have vacancies in the same occupational series, grade, full performance level, and geographic area. Applying here does not remove the need to apply separately for other openings of interest.

The probationary or trial period is treated as part of the appointment process. During this time, the agency evaluates performance, conduct, organizational needs, public-interest value, and service efficiency. If the agency does not affirm continued employment in writing by the end of the period, the appointment ends automatically.

Candidates should be dedicated to improving federal government efficiency, supportive of the values of the American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Federal employees receive a comprehensive benefits package, and benefits may vary depending on whether the role is full-time, part-time, or intermittent.