
MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST
Naval Support Activity, Mechanicsburg, PAFull-time$76–119K/yrPosted today
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Job overview
The Management and Program Analyst serves on the Payroll Team of NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support. The role ensures payroll accuracy and legality, processes payroll and timekeeping actions, reviews reports, and responds to employee inquiries. Applicants must demonstrate specialized payroll experience at the applicable grade level; GS-11 applicants may qualify through specified graduate education or a combination of education and experience.
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Full job description
Summary
You will serve as a MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST on the Payroll Team of NAVSUP WEAPON SYSTEMS SUPPORT.
Duties
- You will ensure the correctness and legality of pay roll work performed.
- You will ensure payroll is processed on a bi-weekly basis, and that related reports are timely run and reviewed.
- You will input timecard changes and ensure accuracy.
- You will answer pay roll inquiries regarding tax and address changes, union dues, debts, and other issues.
- You will input Work Schedule Change Requests (WSCRs), Pay and Leave Adjustments (PLAs), and other requests.
Qualifications
GS-12 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector applying applicable payroll regulations, laws, and guidance to routine and non-routine payroll assignments, issues, and requests. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Providing payroll guidance and ensuring accuracy for assigned tasks; 2) Briefing non-payroll professionals, such as new hires, employees, and supervisors on how to correctly input time; 3) Sucessfully processing timekeeping inquiries, such as paid parental leave applications and timecard changes; 4) Using knowledge of payroll and timekeeping guidance to answer questions and resolve problems for employees and supervisors. GS-11 Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level of pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing routine payroll actions, processing payroll and timekeeping inquiries such as changes in work schedules, or in-lieu-of-holiday guidance, and working with customers and supervisors to resolve errors and issues. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Processing regular and recurring payruns; 2) Running reports to identify missing, unapproved, incomplete, and erroneous timecard entries; 3) Finding resolutions for payroll and timekeeping inquiries such as tax and address changes and Leave Transfer applications; 4) Providing professional and courteous customer service via telephone, e-mail, and in person. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
Education
GS-11 ONLY In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: Successful completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR Successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR Possession of an LL.M. that is related to this position being filled. https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/ OR A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information. How You Will Be Evaluated
In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume and application package, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following competencies: Accountability Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Influencing/Negotiating Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork This recruitment will utilize the following technical assessment tools: USA Hire and Structured Interview. You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Other Information
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed. If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.
How this job compares
Set against the 961 open Program Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$76–119K/yr
- US median$91–133K/yr593 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $97K, is 16% below the US median midpoint ($116K) — in the middle half of Program Analyst salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open Program Analyst jobs in Pennsylvania and 961 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Serco101 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Program Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (826 postings).
- Education
- 291 of the 961 open Program Analyst jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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