Section Chief of Budget & Procurement Job Arkville New York USA,Government

Location: Arkville

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. DEP's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the City.

The Bureau of Water Supply seeks to hire an Associate Staff Analyst for a position with the Source Water Protection Directorate, located in Kingston, New York.

Source Water Protection (SWP) is responsible for implementing a wide variety of partnership, regulatory and non-regulatory programs designed to protect and improve water quality in the water supply watershed.

The Watershed Support Division supports the rest of SWP partly by managing a capital and expense budget of $120M, 50 formal contracts, and 200 procurements annually.

The Budget & Procurement Section Chief will be the Source Water Protection (SWP) point of contact for budget, contract, and procurement issues with the Bureau and at times the Agency staff.

Specific duties include:

Track the expense budget against the annual spending plan.
Reconcile the expense budget against the Bureau database on a frequent basis and resolve discrepancies.
Track the capital budget plans and utilization.
Analyze budget needs and submit budget modifications as needed to ensure efficient use of available funding.
Provide oversight of active contracts and procurements including tracking their budgets, encumbrances and payments.
Process new contracts or contract modifications as needed.
Afford oversight for new procurements and regulatory payments.
Keep internal tracking systems current and accurate.
Produce ad hoc budget and contract reports as requested.

(This is a brief description of what you might do in this position and does not include all the duties of this position.)

Preferred Skills

Advanced Excel skills
Experience using databases to extract and input information
Detail-oriented and highly organized
Ability to concurrently manage multiple tasks with a high degree of accuracy
Excellent communication and follow-up skills
Capability to work well with others to resolve issues
Aptitude to consistently track and meet deadlines
Experience with NYC databases such as FMS and Passport preferred

Minimum Qualifications

A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, public health, 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 Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school, and one year 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;

in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research, or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or a related area.

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and three years of satisfactory full‑time professional experience in the areas described in “1” above.

An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and five years of satisfactory full‑time professional experience as described in “1” above.

A four‑year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State’s department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and seven years of satisfactory…