State of Maryland

An Agency Budget Specialist II is the full performance level of work preparing, presenting and executing agency budgets. Employees in this classification do not supervise.

Employees in this classification receive general supervision from an Agency Budget Specialist Supervisor or other higher-level administrator.

Positions in this classification are evaluated 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 a class specification.

The Agency Budget Specialist Trainee, Agency Budget Specialist I and Agency Budget Specialist II are differentiated on the basis of degree of supervisory control exercised by the supervisor over these employees. The Agency Budget Specialist Trainee learns to perform duties under close supervision.  The Agency Budget Specialist I performs duties under close supervision at times and general supervision at other times depending on the complexity of the specific duty being performed.  The Agency Budget Specialist II performs the full range of duties under general supervision. The Agency Budget Specialist II is differentiated from the Agency Budget Specialist Lead in that the Agency Budget Specialist Lead assigns, reviews and approves the work of and trains Agency Budget Specialists.

Prepares and distributes budget instructions to assigned units to provide baseline information and guidelines for unit budget submissions;

Reviews unit budget submissions to determine adherence to established budgetary guidelines and procedures; Prepares draft budgets to delineate unit requests;

Presents budgetary information to agency executive management at agency level budget hearings;

After the budget is approved by supervisor and agency executive management, prepares the finalized budget for submission to the Office of Budget Analysis (OBA), Department of Budget and Management;

Prepares testimony and provides background information to respond to inquiries from agency executive management, OBA budget analysts and members of the legislature;

Monitors and approves expenditures by analyzing budgetary priorities and constraints;

Prepares object transfers, budget amendments and supplemental requests to reconcile appropriations with actual and estimated expenditures;

Prepares budgetary data that is included in monthly and quarterly statements of fund expenditures and balances and apprises agency management of budgetary status;

Analyzes past and present budgetary data to identify trends and to project budgetary needs;

Makes recommendations on additions, deletions or changes to unit requests based upon agency guidelines and fiscal priorities;

Meets with program heads to discuss and clarify changes made to budgetary submissions;

After the budget is approved by the legislature, notifies agency personnel regarding appropriation levels;

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.

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.