Interested candidates should be passionate about the ideals of our American republic, committed to upholding the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government. Hiring decisions will not be based on race, sex, color, religion, or national origin. Applicants must meet eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. IN ORDER TO BE DEEMED AS QUALIFIED, CANDIDATES MAY QUALIFY BY VIRTUE OF EDUCATION OR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE. GS-9 A. Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. OR B. Specialized Experience: Candidates must have one year of specialized experience which is equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: 1. Experience maintaining project tracking tools to monitor deadlines, deliverables, and action items. 2. Experience tracking multiple active contracts by maintaining status information, identifying upcoming milestones, and flagging issues for review. 3. Experience using automated systems and applications, including the Genesis financial system, E2 travel system, Microsoft Task application, and spreadsheets, to gather and analyze program and administrative data. 4. Experience identifying routine trends, discrepancies, or issues in program and administrative data. OR C. Combination of both education and experience. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. SME REVIEW Subject matter experts will review your application to determine if you meet the following required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's): Ability to independently organize, track, analyze financial information; creatively and independently solve problems and independently manage complex projects; anticipate issues and address risk ahead of time before problems arise. Ability to plan, program, and create processes to improve and optimize projects. Knowledge and skill to use a wide variety of advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques of to analyze, evaluate and improve the efficiency of administrative operations and to measure the effectiveness, and productivity of assigned programs. Skill communicating effectively, orally and in writing, to a variety of audiences, including technical, professional, and administrative specialists at all organizational and hierarchical levels to convey information, explain issues, and persuade management, individuals and/or groups to accept a position or recommendations and accomplish stated objectives with which others may initially disagree or be hesitant to accept. If you are deemed to be qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration. Alternatively, if your application is not deemed as qualified by the Subject Matter Experts, your application will not be referred to the hiring manager for hiring consideration.