Budget Officer
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamion
MISSION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
Summary
Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Budget Officer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.
Duty Locion: Lakewood, Colorado; Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, DC : $169,279 - 197,200*
Lakewood, CO : $164,956 - 197,200*
* Re limited to the re for level IV of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5304 (g)(1)).
Learn more about this agency
Summary
Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Budget Officer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.
Duty Locion: Lakewood, Colorado; Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, DC : $169,279 - 197,200*
Lakewood, CO : $164,956 - 197,200*
* Re limited to the re for level IV of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5304 (g)(1)).
Learn more about this agency
Overview
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Accepting applicions
Posted today
Apply by 06/02/26
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026
Locion
Lakewood, CO
Washington, DC
No mching locions found.
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yesas determined by the agency policy.
Remote job
No
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Salary
$164,956 - $197,200 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 15
Learn more about pay scale and grade
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupions and job series
0560 Budget Analysis
Supervisory stus
Yes
Federal service type
This job is in the Competitive Service
Represented by a union
No
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Position sensitivity and risk
Modere Risk (MR)
Jobs require a
background check and some require a
security clearance . The type depends on the job.
Background check type
Credentialing
Financial disclosure required
No
Some jobs require
financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests.
Announcement number
BOR-DO-26-IMP-12967876-ERW
Control number
870612800
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
See Who May Apply under Requirements for more informion on who is eligible to apply for this position.
Duties
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This position is loced within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamion, Program and Budget, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; LAKEWOOD, COLORADO
At the full performance level (GS-15) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following :
Budget Coordinion- daily, annual, and long-range budget and performance work for the offices under the Director, Program and Budget, and assists with integring the Bureau wide functional areas into cohesive programs.
Advising top officials Headquarters, Regional/Area Offices and serves as the Bureau's point of contact on budgetary mters with the Department, Office of Management and Budget, as well as the respective Appropriions and Oversight Committees and Subcommittees of the Congress.
Developing, maintaining, opering, and coordining all elements of the program system to schedule expenditure of Bureau funds in accordance with Commissioner's and Department's policies, including revisions and additions.
Directs the coordinion, formulion and recommendions to the Commissioner's Office, of basic policies, standards, techniques, procedures, and directives pertaining to programs and budgets, and coordinion of informion exchanged with Bureau financial management.
Provides technical and policy guidance to the regional offices on the development, presention, and execution of the Bureau's programs and budgets.
Ensures th all programs are prepared in accordance with Congressional, Office of Management and Budget, Departmental, and Bureau policies and functional requirements, and th funds appropried therefore are utilized in accordance with approved programs, as well as in accordance with all laws, rules, and regulions controlling the encumbrance, obligion, and expenditure of federal funds.
Manages, directs and oversees the planning and coordinion of the processes and events necessary to justify the Bureau's budget and personnel requests to the Department of the Interior, Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Nional.
You must be suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigion.
You must submit a resume and supporting documention (see Required Documents).
Continue to the Additional Informion section for the Condition of Employment For Probionary Period.
Who May Apply:
Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Competitive)
Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Non-Competitive)
Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)
Department of the Interior Employees (Competitive)
Department of the Interior Employees (Non-Competitive)
Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA)
Qualificions
In order to be red as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine th you meet the specialized experience requirement - this informion must be clearly supported in the resume. Your resume must support your response to the Ability to do the work question - if it does not, your applicion marked as not qualified.
To qualify the GS-15, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to least the GS-14 level in federal service which must include:
Leading or providing oversight to a multi-disciplinary team responsible for technical performance of budget program formulion, execution, and budget activities.
Experience analyzing impacts of new or revised legislion and the potential effects of budgetary actions on program, viability, and in meeting program objectives.
Experience developing and rendering authoritive interpretion of executive order, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines, policies, and directives, and presenting interpretions with and across agency lines.
Experience faciliting resolution among conflicting interests and/or stakeholders.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Supervisory Competencies : Applicants should possess proficiency or the potential to develop proficiency in the following competencies for successful performance of Federal supervisory work: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, flexibility, integrity/honesty, interpersonal skills, oral communicion, problem solving, resilience, and written communicion. Additional informion on supervisory competencies:
Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).
You must meet all Eligibility and Qualificion requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 06/02/2026.
Educion
This position does not allow substituting educion for experience.
Additional informion
Condition of Employment For Probionary Period : As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary 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 organizion 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 organizional 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 probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest.
You may be required to serve an initial supervisory probion period.
Reclamion has determined th the duties of this position are suitable for telework and you may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval.
If otherwise eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment/relocion incentive. The decision to offer an incentive made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For informion : Recruitment Incentive and Relocion incentive .
DOI uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including applicant rights and responsibilities, please
This position is designed as a MODERATE RISK Public Trust position. It requires a fully completed and favorably adjudiced Public Trust Suitability Background Investigion (T2S or T2RS or equivalent) th is current (within the last 5 years). This is a condition of employment.
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must certify registrion with the Selective Service System or th the applicant is exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. Go to:
This is a non-bargaining unit position.
Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide to the applicion questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position.
The applicion questionnaire can be previewed here:
Your answers verified against informion provided in your resume. Your resume must clearly support the responses to all the questions by addressing experience, educion, and/or training relevant to this position. You must make a fair and accure assessment of your qualificions. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than wh is apparent in the description of your experience, competencies, skills, and/or educion/training (or th your resume/applicion is incomplete), you could be red ineligible or your score could be lowered.
For evaluing the quality of candides for referral to the selecting official, a three-phased process used.
Phase 1 : Applicant resumes reviewed by Human Resources to ensure they meet the basic qualificion requirements (see definition of specialized experience). If applicants meet basic qualificions, they will continue on to the second phase.
Phase 2 : Candides who pass the first phase will have their resume reviewed and red by a panel of subject mter experts against the following competencies:
Technical Competence
Planning and Evaluing
Compliance
Stregic Thinking
Leadership
Phase 3 : Candides given a final score - those candides who score as best qualified referred to the selecting official for considerion. The selecting official may or may not contact you for an interview.
Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies with the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s). Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. You may choose to opt in of having your informion shared with other agencies when applying for this position. If an agency requests a copy of a certifice you are on, you notified.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
Required documents
Required Documents
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Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.
RESUME: You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.For more informion, click here .
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: You must submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.
CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS: Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/02/2026. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button the top of the page.
Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.
Agency contact informion
Emanuel Williams
Phone
...
...
Address
Mission Support Organizion
Bureau of Reclamion
Denver Federal Center
P.O. BOX 25007
Denver, CO 80225-0007
US
Next steps
Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system.
After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.
RESUME: You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.For more informion, click here .
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: You must submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.
CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS: Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/02/2026. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button the top of the page.
Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.
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Agency contact informion
Emanuel Williams
Phone
...
...
Address
Mission Support Organizion
Bureau of Reclamion
Denver Federal Center
P.O. BOX 25007
Denver, CO 80225-0007
US
Next steps
Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system.
After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile.
Expand Hide next steps
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today Apply by 06/02/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026 Locion Lakewood, CO Washington, DC No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yesas determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $164,956 - $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number BOR-DO-26-IMP-12967876-ERW Control number 870612800
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamion
MISSION SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
Summary
Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Budget Officer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.
Duty Locion: Lakewood, Colorado; Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, DC : $169,279 - 197,200*
Lakewood, CO : $164,956 - 197,200*
* Re limited to the re for level IV of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5304 (g)(1)).
Learn more about this agency
Summary
Reclamion is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Budget Officer. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing wer demands while protecting the environment.
Duty Locion: Lakewood, Colorado; Washington, District of Columbia
Washington, DC : $169,279 - 197,200*
Lakewood, CO : $164,956 - 197,200*
* Re limited to the re for level IV of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5304 (g)(1)).
Learn more about this agency
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Posted today
Apply by 06/02/26
Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026
Locion
Lakewood, CO
Washington, DC
No mching locions found.
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yesas determined by the agency policy.
Remote job
No
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Salary
$164,956 - $197,200 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 15
Learn more about pay scale and grade
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupions and job series
0560 Budget Analysis
Supervisory stus
Yes
Federal service type
This job is in the Competitive Service
Represented by a union
No
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Position sensitivity and risk
Modere Risk (MR)
Jobs require a
background check and some require a
security clearance . The type depends on the job.
Background check type
Credentialing
Financial disclosure required
No
Some jobs require
financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests.
Announcement number
BOR-DO-26-IMP-12967876-ERW
Control number
870612800
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)
Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants.
Clarificion from the agency
See Who May Apply under Requirements for more informion on who is eligible to apply for this position.
Duties
Help
This position is loced within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamion, Program and Budget, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; LAKEWOOD, COLORADO
At the full performance level (GS-15) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following :
Budget Coordinion- daily, annual, and long-range budget and performance work for the offices under the Director, Program and Budget, and assists with integring the Bureau wide functional areas into cohesive programs.
Advising top officials Headquarters, Regional/Area Offices and serves as the Bureau's point of contact on budgetary mters with the Department, Office of Management and Budget, as well as the respective Appropriions and Oversight Committees and Subcommittees of the Congress.
Developing, maintaining, opering, and coordining all elements of the program system to schedule expenditure of Bureau funds in accordance with Commissioner's and Department's policies, including revisions and additions.
Directs the coordinion, formulion and recommendions to the Commissioner's Office, of basic policies, standards, techniques, procedures, and directives pertaining to programs and budgets, and coordinion of informion exchanged with Bureau financial management.
Provides technical and policy guidance to the regional offices on the development, presention, and execution of the Bureau's programs and budgets.
Ensures th all programs are prepared in accordance with Congressional, Office of Management and Budget, Departmental, and Bureau policies and functional requirements, and th funds appropried therefore are utilized in accordance with approved programs, as well as in accordance with all laws, rules, and regulions controlling the encumbrance, obligion, and expenditure of federal funds.
Manages, directs and oversees the planning and coordinion of the processes and events necessary to justify the Bureau's budget and personnel requests to the Department of the Interior, Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Nional.
You must be suitable for federal employment, determined by a background investigion.
You must submit a resume and supporting documention (see Required Documents).
Continue to the Additional Informion section for the Condition of Employment For Probionary Period.
Who May Apply:
Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Competitive)
Bureau of Reclamion Employees (Non-Competitive)
Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)
Department of the Interior Employees (Competitive)
Department of the Interior Employees (Non-Competitive)
Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act (LMWFA)
Qualificions
In order to be red as qualified for this position, the HR Office must be able to determine th you meet the specialized experience requirement - this informion must be clearly supported in the resume. Your resume must support your response to the Ability to do the work question - if it does not, your applicion marked as not qualified.
To qualify the GS-15, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to least the GS-14 level in federal service which must include:
Leading or providing oversight to a multi-disciplinary team responsible for technical performance of budget program formulion, execution, and budget activities.
Experience analyzing impacts of new or revised legislion and the potential effects of budgetary actions on program, viability, and in meeting program objectives.
Experience developing and rendering authoritive interpretion of executive order, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidelines, policies, and directives, and presenting interpretions with and across agency lines.
Experience faciliting resolution among conflicting interests and/or stakeholders.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Supervisory Competencies : Applicants should possess proficiency or the potential to develop proficiency in the following competencies for successful performance of Federal supervisory work: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, flexibility, integrity/honesty, interpersonal skills, oral communicion, problem solving, resilience, and written communicion. Additional informion on supervisory competencies:
Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience the next lower-grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).
You must meet all Eligibility and Qualificion requirements, including time-in-grade restrictions and any selective placement factors if applicable, by 06/02/2026.
Educion
This position does not allow substituting educion for experience.
Additional informion
Condition of Employment For Probionary Period : As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you required to serve a 1-year probionary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest evalued. This probionary 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 organizion 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 organizional 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 probionary or trial period automically termines when th period ends unless the agency affirmively certifies, in writing, th the individual's employment should continue and th their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmively certify continued employment beyond the probionary or trial period, such appointments are termined. Upon completion of your probionary period your employment termined unless you receive certificion, in writing, th your continued employment advances the public interest.
You may be required to serve an initial supervisory probion period.
Reclamion has determined th the duties of this position are suitable for telework and you may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval.
If otherwise eligible and qualified, you may be offered a recruitment/relocion incentive. The decision to offer an incentive made on a case-by-case basis and is neither promised nor guaranteed. For informion : Recruitment Incentive and Relocion incentive .
DOI uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including applicant rights and responsibilities, please
This position is designed as a MODERATE RISK Public Trust position. It requires a fully completed and favorably adjudiced Public Trust Suitability Background Investigion (T2S or T2RS or equivalent) th is current (within the last 5 years). This is a condition of employment.
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must certify registrion with the Selective Service System or th the applicant is exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. Go to:
This is a non-bargaining unit position.
Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
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You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), the responses you provide to the applicion questionnaire, and the result of the additional assessments required for this position.
The applicion questionnaire can be previewed here:
Your answers verified against informion provided in your resume. Your resume must clearly support the responses to all the questions by addressing experience, educion, and/or training relevant to this position. You must make a fair and accure assessment of your qualificions. If a determinion is made th you have red yourself higher than wh is apparent in the description of your experience, competencies, skills, and/or educion/training (or th your resume/applicion is incomplete), you could be red ineligible or your score could be lowered.
For evaluing the quality of candides for referral to the selecting official, a three-phased process used.
Phase 1 : Applicant resumes reviewed by Human Resources to ensure they meet the basic qualificion requirements (see definition of specialized experience). If applicants meet basic qualificions, they will continue on to the second phase.
Phase 2 : Candides who pass the first phase will have their resume reviewed and red by a panel of subject mter experts against the following competencies:
Technical Competence
Planning and Evaluing
Compliance
Stregic Thinking
Leadership
Phase 3 : Candides given a final score - those candides who score as best qualified referred to the selecting official for considerion. The selecting official may or may not contact you for an interview.
Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their applicion, associed documents and applicable personal informion shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies with the same occupional series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic locion(s). Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive considerion. You may choose to opt in of having your informion shared with other agencies when applying for this position. If an agency requests a copy of a certifice you are on, you notified.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
Required documents
Required Documents
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Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.
RESUME: You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.For more informion, click here .
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: You must submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.
CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS: Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
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Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/02/2026. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button the top of the page.
Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.
Agency contact informion
Emanuel Williams
Phone
...
...
Address
Mission Support Organizion
Bureau of Reclamion
Denver Federal Center
P.O. BOX 25007
Denver, CO 80225-0007
US
Next steps
Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system.
After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
Please submit the supporting documents outlined below applicable to your claimed eligibility stus and the position and grade to which you are applying. Failing to submit required documents will result in non-considerion due to an incomplete applicion package.
RESUME: You must submit a resume th demonstres how skills and experiences through job duties meet the qualificions and requirements listed in the job announcement to be considered for the job. Each job experience must include des of employment including start and end des (month and year), work schedule (full-time or part-time), and hours worked per week. Resumes must not exceed two single-sided pages and resumes longer than two pages will not be accepted. The minimum font size is 10-point for all body text. Headers may be slightly larger but must remain legible. All resumes must maintain a minimum 0.5-inch margins on all sides to ensure readability and prevent excessive content compression. Including supplemental pages or tachments disguised as resume extensions are prohibited and will not be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualificions.For more informion, click here .
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: You must submit 1) a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, and 2) a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act/achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. This documention is required to be considered as a current or former federal employee and optional for all other appointment types (e.g., veterans, individuals with disabilities, etc.)
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Competitive Service current and/or former federal employees eligible for Promotion, Reassignment, Transfer, Reinstement, etc. You must submit a copy of your SF-50, verifying highest re of pay and documenting career or career-conditional stus in the competitive service (Tenure 1 or 2) for which the applicant is claiming eligibility. Do not submit award SF-50s. If you are applying for a higher grade and your SF-50 has an effective de within the past year, it may not clearly demonstre you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstres you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of approprie SF-50s include Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective de more than one year old). For more informion, click here . See above section for Performance Appraisal documention requirement.
CAREER TRANSITION PROGRAMS: Permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separed. You must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty locion. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, you must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualificion requirements, including selective factors, educion and experience requirements) and score least 85.0 on the assessment questionnaire as established, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more informion, click here .
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Applicions (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documention) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on 06/02/2026. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button the top of the page.
Do not submit photographs with the applicion package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.
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Agency contact informion
Emanuel Williams
Phone
...
...
Address
Mission Support Organizion
Bureau of Reclamion
Denver Federal Center
P.O. BOX 25007
Denver, CO 80225-0007
US
Next steps
Upon successful submission of the applicion packet, you will receive a confirmion email from USAJOBS. If you do not receive this email confirmion, the applicion has not yet been accepted by the system.
After all applicion packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualificion requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualificions further evalued on the informion provided in the resume, applicion questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evalued" section above. Best-qualified applicants referred to the selecting official. After making a tentive job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigion conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applicions. Applicants should monitor their stus for positions with the Bureau of Reclamion by regularly checking their public stus notificions in the USAJOBS profile.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today Apply by 06/02/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 2, 2026 Locion Lakewood, CO Washington, DC No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yesas determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $164,956 - $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 15 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number BOR-DO-26-IMP-12967876-ERW Control number 870612800
Job ID: 522896696
Originally Posted on: 5/29/2026
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