Program Examiner
This position is located in the Education, Income Maintenance, and Labor Division (EIML). As one of five centers of subject-matter expertise within OMB, EIML has oversight responsibility for the Department of Education; Department of Labor; Social Security Administration; the nutrition programs of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service; the income support programs of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families; the Earned Income Tax Credit and The Child Tax Credit at the Department of Treasury, the Railroad Retirement Board; AmeriCorps; National Labor Relations Board; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and other smaller agencies. EIML has three branches: Education, Income Maintenance, and Labor. Experience with policies and programs is preferred but not required.
As a PROGRAM EXAMINER, GS-0301-11/12/13, your typical work assignments may include the following:
- Performing legislative, economic, program evaluation, financial management, procurement, information technology, regulatory and organizational analyses to assigned program areas.
- Reviewing and analyzing the formulation and execution of the budget in assigned areas.
- Resolving budget and policy issues and rendering advice, and preparing material for the Director's review and presentation of the President's budget and management agenda.
- Conducting and monitoring analytical work on program and policy issues within areas of responsibility.
- Developing options based on detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Program Examiners are the core source of institutional expertise on all matters pertaining to the programs and operations of Federal departments and agencies they cover. They have a wide range of responsibilities for the programs in their purview.
Responsibility will increase and assignments will become more complex as the Program Examiner's training and experience progress.