Budget Technician

This position is located in the Nutrition and Food Services within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Administration. The primary purpose of the position is to perform a wide range of clerical and technician work supporting budget analysis and administration with responsibility for purchasing food equipment supplies and services; providing cost accounting and budgetary statistics; and preparing reports that indicate status of funds for subsistence and supplies for Nutrition and Food Services.

Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Developing and monitoring resources and making recommendations to the service regarding needs distribution or redistribution of these resources;
• Serving as the budget and financial advisor for the Chief or designee;
• Developing formulating and providing all essential data for the annual budget forecast;
• Tracking all expenditures and comparing with budgeted projected and on-hand inventories;
• Maintaining budget control records and assures funds are used in accordance with the operating budget;
• Advising on the status and availability of funds;
• Processing all vouchers with the appropriate office and carrying out any needed follow-up;
• Establishing and maintaining a procurement system for expendable supplies and equipment;
• Reviewing and submitting the appropriate forms for the funding of purchase orders;
• Maintaining various reports and using designated ledgers to account for cost accounting operations;
• Compiling consolidating checking and arranging funding data in requests to cover projected annual operating expenses;
• Preparing required documentation to resolve discrepancies with cost reports budget analysis or other service-related needs;
• Preparing correspondence and performing other general clerical duties;
• Performing related duties as required.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday;5:30am-2:00pm
Telework: Not Available.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Budget Technician/PD99928S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Notifications:

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• Veterans preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title series grade step tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In most cases more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3) must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment.
• This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

As a condition of employment for accepting this position you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public determining if your employment advances the public interest we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification in writing that your continued employment advances the public interest.

To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement 08/11/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a (GS-06) position you must have served 52 weeks at the (GS-05). The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade as required by the this instance you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.


To qualify for this position at the GS-6 grade level:

Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. To be creditable experience must have been equivalent the GS-5 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes: administering and maintaining budgets; knowledge of budgets and purchasing requests; entering and tracking information; performing clerical duties in support of finance or accounting operations; and preparing correspondence. NOTE: Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

There is no education substitution at the GS-6 grade level.

You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Budget Administration - Knowledge of the principles and practices of budget administration and analysis; including preparing justifying reporting on and executing the budget; and the relationships among program budget accounting and reporting systems.
• Control of Funds - Knowledge of the principles procedures and requirements for maintaining control and accountability of obligations and expenditures for all appropriations and fund accounts - for example revolving non-appropriated multiyear and single-year appropriations.
• Cost Accounting - Knowledge of the principles procedures and methods of cost accounting including the use of historical cost market value or present value to measure cost; methods for assigning cost to accounting periods; and cost allocation cost accrual depreciation and unit cost.
• Clerical - Knowledge of filing typing entering data maintaining records taking shorthand and using and completing forms.
• Computer Skills - Uses computers software applications databases and automated systems to accomplish work.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The work is primarily sedentary but occasionally requires the carrying of light objects such as files books and papers. Work involves bending stooping standing walking carrying less than 15 pounds and using a computer terminal. Work is performed in an adequately climate-controlled office setting.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: For more information on these qualification standards please visit the United States Office of Personnel Managements website at There is no educational substitution at the GS-6 grade level.