State of Maryland

A Budget Analyst Trainee is the entry level of work in the formulation and expenditure oversight of the Governor's annual spending plan and legislative appropriation.  Employees in this classification perform work that involves analysis of operating budgets of medium-sized agencies. Employees in this classification do not supervise other positions.

Employees in this classification receive close supervision from a Supervising Budget Examiner.

Positions in this classification are evaluated by using the classification job evaluation methodology.  The use of this method involves comparing the assigned duties and responsibilities of a position to the job criteria found in the Nature of Work and Examples of Work sections of the class specification.

The Budget Analyst Trainee is differentiated from Budget Analyst I, Operating or Capital Programs, Budget Analyst II, Operating or Capital Programs and Budget Analyst III, Operating or Capital Programs on the basis of degree of supervisory control exercised by the supervisor over these employees.  The Budget Analyst Trainee learns to perform duties under close supervision.  The Budget Analyst I, Operating or Capital Programs, Budget Analyst II, Operating or Capital Programs and Budget Analyst III, Operating or Capital Programs perform the full range of duties under general supervision.

Learns to conducts studies of all budget expenditures of units of the Executive Branch of State government;

Learns to makes recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management and to the Governor regarding resource allocation for assigned State agencies to promote greater efficiency and economy for these agencies;

Learns to collect data through personal interviews and independent resources to properly analyze and evaluate budget requests;

Attends meetings with agency personnel to discuss operating changes affecting budgetary appropriations;

Learns to provides technical advice and assistance, including interpreting budget policies, to State agencies in the preparation of their budgets;

Learns to assemble statistical data and reports for use in evaluating budgets;

Learns to analyze and evaluates the organization, policy, procedures and management practices of State departments and agencies to develop recommendations for their improvement;

Learns to analyze requests for new positions and for additional temporary help to evaluate need;

Learns to investigate the propriety and need for the transfer of appropriations between programs to maintain fiscal integrity;

Learns to analyze proposed legislation to determine fiscal impact and potential organizational change;

May attend agency budget hearings conducted by the Department of Budget and Management and the Governor, and Hearings and Committee meetings conducted by the General Assembly;

Performs other related duties.

Class Descriptions are broad descriptions covering groups of positions used by various State departments and agencies.  Position descriptions maintained by the using department or agency specifically address the essential job functions of each position.

Class Descriptions provide information about the Nature of Work, Examples of Work, General Requirements and Acknowledgements.  The Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; Minimum Education and Experience Requirements; Special Requirements; and recruitment and testing procedures    are set by the using agency.

This is a Skilled Service classification in the State Personnel Management System.  All positions in this classification are Skilled Service positions.  Some positions in Skilled Service classifications may be designated Special Appointment in accordance with the State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 6-405, Annotated Code of Maryland.

This classification is not assigned to a bargaining unit, as indicated by the designation of S (Supervisor), M (Manager), T (Agency Head), U (Board or Commission Member), W (Student), X (Used by Agency or Excluded by Executive Order), or Z (Confidential).  As provided by State Personnel and Pensions Article, Section 3-102, special appointment, temporary, contractual, supervisory, managerial and confidential employees are excluded collective bargaining.  Additionally, certain executive branch agencies are exempt from collective bargaining and all positions in those agencies are excluded from collective bargaining.

Employees in this classification are eligible to receive overtime compensation.  An employee who works more than the normal workweek is entitled to be compensated for that overtime, as provided by the State Personnel and Pensions      Article, Section 8-305.

This classification is one level in a Non-Competitive Promotion (NCP) series.  NCP promotions are promotions by which employees may advance in grade and class level from trainee to full performance level in a classification series.  In order to be non-competitively promoted to the next level in a NCP series, an employee must: 1) perform the main purpose of the class, as defined by the Nature of Work section of the class specification; 2) receive the type of supervision defined in the class specification and 3) meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.