Summary This position is located in the Executive Secretariat, Office of Executive Technology (S/ES-ET), Congressional and Litigation Services division (CLS). The Executive Secretariat (S/ES) is responsible for coordination of the work of the Department internally, serving as the liaison between the Department's bureaus. You will serve as a Program Analyst within the CLS Litigation Support team. Duties Responsible for directing, implementing, coordinating, or overseeing program budgeting and annual strategic program planning. Plans and conducts studies, provides advice to managers of headquarters functions, and develops and evaluates policies. Develops policies, issuances, and directives; responsible for providing oversight and coordinating the identification, analysis and issuance of policies with managers and top level officials of the bureau. Responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring sophisticated management information systems that focus on long and short range plans, implementing policies and managing programs by tacking goals, objectives and priorities. Represent the bureau at meetings and conferences; advocates bureau views and policy positions, develops oral and written reports for manage. Qualifications Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience directing, implementing, coordinating, or overseeing budget and/or strategic program planning; Experience overseeing and developing program policies and procedures; AND Experience leading program planning processes for executive management There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-13 position. Education Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.