BUDGET MANAGER FOR THE DHS SHELTER AND STREET PROGRAMS

APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST CIVIL SERVICE TITLE OR BE PERMANENT IN A COMPARABLE TITLE ELIGIBLE FOR 6.1.9 TITLE CHANGE
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.
The Office of Budget Administration (OBA) is responsible for planning, developing and coordination the Agency’s budget and for monitoring Agency’s revenues, expenditures and staffing for all HRA’s programs. The primary responsibility encompasses all social service and administrative programs directly operated and contracted by the Agency with a $10.6 billion-dollar budget.
The Office of Budget Administration (OBA) requests to fill one (1) Administrative Staff Analyst NM-I to function as a Budget Manager for the DHS Shelter and Street Programs who will:
- Oversee the budgets for one or more program areas.
- Assist and support the Budget Director in managing, reviewing, analyzing and monitoring of one or more program areas.
- Conduct budget and program analysis and forecast and monitor expenditure or caseload trends.
- Analyze, review, and provide recommendations for requests for new funding and cost reduction initiatives.
- Monitor and evaluate program spending to ensure that spending does not exceed the approved budget.
- Review, coordinate, support, and process contract and procurement actions.
- Analyze state and federal budgets and legislation to determine impact on the budgets of assigned programs.
- Prepare surplus/needs analysis at the end of the fiscal year and compile monthly spending plans.
- Liaison between OBA and the program area, as well as OMB to discuss budgetary and programmatic impacts.
- Prepare and enter budget modifications, run and extract reports, and research expenditures in the City’s Financial Management System.
- Coordinate with one or more program areas and develop an understanding of program operations and contracts to determine appropriate funding levels.
- Other special projects as needed.
Hours/Schedule: 9-5
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST ( - 1002A

1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.

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