All Native Group is seeking a Data and Budget Analyst to support Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring. Key aspects of this role will be to serve as the Research Program Office’s principal Budget Analyst, using WRAIR's knowledge management assets, to support proposal budget development and review as well as identify gaps, design and develop solutions, pilot these solutions and then implement solutions.
Essential Functions
- Liaison between RPO and Resource Management to review and approve budgets
- Serve as the budget analyst for RPO; in addition to proposal budget related tasks, also includes review, analysis, revisions, and summaries of updates for funded research project budgets and for foundation partner related CRADA budgets, including briefing relevant items for review at internal WRAIR meetings.
- Ensure familiarity with government research proposal/project budgets
- Assist WRAIR Principal Investigators (PIs) with proposal budget development and questions.
- Provide research proposal/project budget updates and revisions to WRAIR PIs.
- Provide suggested proposal/project budget revisions and summaries of updates to WRAIR RM for coordination and final RM approval of budgets.
- Through liaising with RM and/or gaining access to GFEBS, track proposal funding awards and success rates.
- Develop, edit, and maintain a Records center within the RPO.
- Promote knowledge sharing through WRAIR’s business process and systems by strengthening links between knowledge sharing and available information systems.
- Have familiarity with SharePoint, support the development of a comprehensive tracking system for WRAIR research funding proposals and grants, and provide data and budget inputs to the system. Support the development of an additional system for WRAIR to link the proposal tracking system to other relevant systems and data (procurements, agreements, human use protocols, animal protocols, etc.), and once put in place, provide data input and connection to research project/proposal funding award data (likely via coordination with RM and through GFEBS).
- Support document and information updates in RPO SharePoint sites.
- When requested, update slides for meetings and briefings (e.g., Proposal Cycle Kickoffs, Review & Analyses, Sync meetings, Leads meetings, etc.).
- Contribute to or lead development of proposal and budget related documents, such as information pages and SOPs.
- Track and complete relevant RPO proposal and funding related taskers
- Follow up on questions related to taskers i.e., reaching out to tasker POC on behalf of PIs or asking PIs clarification on behalf of leadership/tasker POC
- Work with SharePoint Manager to develop new ways to improve display and flow of information in SharePoint sites.
Competencies
- Familiarity with SharePoint
- Integrate and understand funding data
- Creating queries inside of GFEBS
- Data analysis
- Business process map development.
- Ability to quickly gain knowledge about how funding proposal and research project budgets are generated; knowledge of how additional business of science activities are conducted is a plus – e.g., how contracts and agreements are generated
- Strong communication with ability to tailor emails for various WRAIR audiences
- Adept at navigating shared drives, networks, TEAMS and mailboxes
- Basic copy-editing to ensure written communication is consistent, complete and free of errors
Supervisory Responsibility
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
- Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Expresses or exchanges ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.
- Frequently moves standard office equipment up to 25 pounds.
- Must be able to work indoor conditions 90% of the time.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
Travel
Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out of the area travel and overnight may be expected.
Experience
- 4-8 years of experience supporting government (preferably Army Research)
- Experience reviewing, revising, and developing and/or assisting others to develop budgets, preferably research project related
- Experience with two or more of the following: GFEBS, MS Office, Excel, MS SQL, MS Visio, MS Windows 10
Education
Bachelor’s degree preferred. Master’s degree highly desired.
Additional Eligibility Qualification
- Positive attitude with high energy to acquire new skills if needed, and a desire to deliver good quality work.
- Take charge attitude.
- Ability to share ideas and guide teams and workloads
- Attentiveness to detail
- Accountable
- Proactive
- Persistent
- Positive
- Solution Oriented
Security Clearance
Public Trust
Drug Free Workplace
All Native Group is a Drug Free Workplace. It is our policy that all new hires must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen as a condition of employment. In addition, all employees are subject to random drug screens throughout the term of their employment with All Native Group.
AAP/EEO Statement
All Native Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. However, preference may be extended to persons of Indian descent in accordance with applicable laws.
