Budget Analyst II – 01354

We are committed to increasing the diversity representation and inclusion of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and just services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

This position is open to current Colorado State Employees only.

Be BOLD and make a real difference…

Do you have a passion and drive to apply your talent to create a better, healthier, more equitable Colorado? Are you looking for a career that provides you with opportunities to improve the state and community in which you live? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is seeking individuals of diverse backgrounds, including all racial and ethnic identities, ages, nationalities, social and economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religious, political, and ideological perspectives, and physical and mental abilities to apply for a leadership position that makes a direct impact on improving the lives of Colorado residents.

The vision of the Department of Public Health and Environment is a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive. If your goal is to further your career in a place that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Our tobacco-free campus offers free parking and is conveniently located near RTD bus lines, Glendale City Set, and the Cherry Creek bike path. In addition to a great location and rewarding, meaningful work, we offer:

• Employee wellness programs and facilities
• Extensive internal professional development opportunities on a wide variety of subjects Bike to work programs, including access to storage lockers and bike racks
• Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the State system
• Strong, yet flexible retirement benefits including a choice of the PERA Defined Benefit Plan or the PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus optional 401K and 457 plans
• Medical and dental health plans Paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 10 paid holidays per year plus generous personal time off Mentoring program with opportunities for mentors and mentees
• Tuition assistance for college-level courses including Master’s degree programs Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules
• And a variety of employee resource groups

Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to: http://www.tgslc.org/borrowers/public-service/

Description of Job

The Work Unit

The Prevention Services Division (PSD) works with public and private partners across Colorado to improve the health of all Coloradans. Division professionals develop, review, implement, and evaluate public health interventions proven to promote healthy living, prevent chronic disease, protect against injury, maternal and child health and ensure access to health care and opportunities for a healthy lifestyle. The Division works to establish integrative, cross-cutting approaches within the Division’s programs that leverage human and financial resources and produces the most effective public health prevention programs in the nation. The Division is committed to the professional development, collaborative effort, and sustained wellness of its workforce.

The Fiscal, Contracting, Compliance and Operations Branch (FCCO) within PSD provides support to all programs within the Division, offering services that include fiscal management and oversight, procurement and contracting development and oversight, compliance monitoring and operations support. The branch provides division wide training, forms, policies and procedures for all of the Division’s business operations including all fiscal, compliance and contracting workflow. The branch maintains access to all department systems and houses super users for department systems including KRONOS, PEPS, FDW, COFRS, CORE and more. The branch provides support for all division operations functions including the creation and management of division operations, personnel liaison functions, organizational charts and more. The branch is responsible for building, maintaining and implementing all systems, process, policies, and procedures to support the functions listed above. The branch is responsible for producing financial records, tracking internal and external expenditures totaling over $200 million division-wide. The branch is responsible for the preparation of hundreds of contracts and purchase orders each year as well as compliance monitoring activities of grant funding passed through to external agencies.

The Position

This position is responsible for budgeting, tracking balancing, monitoring, reporting, and managing all monies for assigned branch programs/grants. This position must independently use professional judgment and resources from a variety of areas to evaluate program needs compared with current funding levels, working with program management to ensure alignment of available resources with prioritized programmatic needs. This position provides budgetary and financial support to all levels of division management including offering fiscal recommendations and frequent independent decision-making, assists in the achievement of service goals and objectives at the least possible cost to the Division, prepares and provides budget data and analysis to the central budget office for submission to the Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) and Joint Budget Committee (JBC) for long bill spending authority, helps prepare fiscal notes for legislative council staff on impending legislation, and other financial responsibilities as assigned. Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business or public administration, economics, political science, statistics, government or closely related degree and two years of professional experience in budget analysis, budget development and implementation, fiscal management, policy development, and implementation, or public or private sector management or administration (including budget formulation, execution, and analysis).

Substitutions

Any combination of professional budget analysis, management analysis, statistical analysis, economic research and analysis, budgeting, business administration, public administration, and/or local government budget/policy development and implementation experience, which provided the same kind, amount, and level of knowledge acquired in the required education, may substitute on a year-for-year basis for the bachelor’s degree.

A master’s or doctorate degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, finance, business or public administration, economics, political science, statistics, government, or closely-related degree may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree and one year of general experience.

Preferred Qualifications And Essential Competencies

In addition to the minimum requirements, the successful candidate in this position will have the following experience:

• CORE Experience
• Prior experience working with multi-million dollar budgets
• Prior experience supporting, monitoring, and ensuring compliance with Federal and State contracts, grants, and funding streams
• Strong analytical skills; the ability to synthesize, interpret, and report on complex or technical information, collect and research data
• High level of emotional intelligence that facilitates the ability to sense others reactions, views, and goals, and actively manages own reactions and behavior based on that information
• Strong interpersonal skills; demonstrated proficiency working collaboratively with internal teams
• Outstanding skills and abilities in verbal and written communications
• Excellent organizational skills; the ability to set, track, and accomplish priorities, goals, and timetables to achieve maximum productivity, knowing the status of activities at all times.
• Critical thinking and good judgment; ability and motivation to identify problems and develop creative solutions to complex challenges
• Initiative & self-management; the passion and ability to dive into the work and accomplish tasks within established timeframes.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and to exercise tact, discretion, and sound judgment
• Strong sense of professionalism, including a strong work ethic and reliability.

Conditions Of Employment

• Effective September 20, 2021, employees will be required to attest to and verify that they are fully vaccinated for COVID 19, or submit to twice-weekly serial testing. Upon hire, the employee appointed to this position will have three (3) business days to provide attestation to their status with proof of vaccination or begin twice-weekly serial testing for COVID 19. Please indicate that you are aware of this condition of employment.
• A criminal background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Felony convictions or conviction of crimes of moral turpitude or convictions of misdemeanors related to job duties may disqualify you from being considered for this position. Should your background check reveal any charges and convictions, it is your responsibility to provide the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Human Resources office with an official disposition of any charges.

Supplemental Information

Application Requirements

Please include your resume AND cover letter along with your state application.

Failure to include adequate information or follow instructions may affect your score and prevent you from competing in subsequent measures used to arrive at a top group of applicants.

Refer to Chapters 4 and 8 of the State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director’s Administrative Procedures, 4 CCR 801, for more information about the appeals process. The State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director’s Administrative Procedures are available at www.colorado.gov/spb. A standard appeal form is available at: www.colorado.gov/spb. If you appeal, your appeal must be submitted in writing on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative, and received at the following address within 10 days of your receipt of notice or knowledge of the action: Colorado State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director, Attn: Appeals Processing, 1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Fax: 303-866-5038. Phone: 303-866-3300. The ten-day deadline and these appeal procedures also apply to all charges of discrimination.