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Oregon Housing & Community Services

Fiscal Business Analyst Policy, Planning & Operations Section

[Fiscal Analyst 1]

Hybrid – Salem, OR

Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) Housing Stabilization Division is looking to fill a Fiscal Business Analyst Policy, Planning & Operations Section position. The person in this position will be responsible for training staff on financial tools and systems, addressing queries related to budgets, and ensuring staff fluency in financial processes. This position will also track and interpret financial data, prepare reports, and provide leadership with up-to-date financial insights. If this sounds like the career opportunity you have been looking, then please apply today!

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION

Our Vision is that all Oregonians can pursue prosperity and live free from poverty.

Our Mission is to provide stable and affordable housing and engage leaders to develop integrated statewide policy that addresses poverty and provides opportunity for Oregonians.

Our Core Values: Collaboration – Compassion – Equity – Integrity – Leadership – Transparency.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Fiscal / Business Analyst is responsible for maintaining up-to-date awareness and fluency with Agency accounting and budget systems and maintaining big picture awareness of division budgets and financial operations. Analyst will also support Project Managers in development of business cases, project budgets, and resource analyses. Analyst will serve as a key liaison between HSD and the Budget, and Accounting teams, and support division leadership in improving and prioritizing HSD fiscal management. This position involves training staff on financial tools and systems, addressing queries related to budgets, and supporting staff fluency in financial processes. The analyst is responsible for tracking and interpreting financial data, preparing reports, supporting review processes to ensure sectional budgets oversight is consistent, and providing leadership with updates on issues and progress.

Analyst will assist in budget planning process by performing and supporting historic analysis, supporting projections, creating accessible summaries, and evaluating fiscal adjustments, including reduction options. Analyst will support legislative processes by preparing financial materials, informing the creation of fiscal impact statements based on legislative analysis and direction from Budget and LFO teams, and supporting interpretation and implementation of budget notes and build out of division legislative implementation. The role requires building an understanding of financial systems, ability to support analysis of financial soundness and benefits of projects, support program staff in assessments of partner budgets and fiscal capacity, and to have ability to effectively and accessibly communicate fiscal and budget information to program, policy, and evaluation staff to coordinate and resolve budgetary issues.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

A Bachelor's Degree in Business, Public or Non-Profit Management, Finance, Accounting or a related degree (such as Public Policy, Political Science, Public Administration, Economics or other analytical or technical degree).
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Three years’ experience in management, policy or program analysis, or technical-level budgetary support activities.

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WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

RECRUITMENT TIMELINE

*These dates are approximate and may change. *

APPLICATION GUIDANCE AND REQUIREMENTS

WHO WE ARE

Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) is Oregon’s housing finance agency. We provide financial and program support to create and preserve opportunities for quality, affordable housing for Oregonians of lower and moderate income. Our vision is that all Oregonians can pursue prosperity and to live free from poverty. Across Oregon, housing has emerged as a paramount concern. The lack of available housing, high rents and high home prices are driving rapid increases in housing instability and homelessness. The data is clear: too many Oregonians are without a safe, stable, and affordable place to call home.

OHCS is placing a greater emphasis on strategic planning and the way we invest our resources. Recently, we have restructured, refocused, and reimagined our agency. Our work has led to an increased emphasis on data, research, and customer service. We are carrying that effort forward with the . The plan articulates the extent of Oregon's housing problem and what we can do to address it. OHCS committed to the Housing Stability Council and our stakeholders that the plan will be responsive to the needs of the state.

OHCS released its to update the agency’s significant progress in meeting the goals outlined in the 2019 Statewide Housing Plan. We are now more than halfway into the five-year plan.

HOUSING STABILIZATION DIVISION (HSD)

OHCS’s Housing Stabilization Division (HSD) provides critical statewide services addressing homelessness, housing stabilization, and energy and climate resilience for Oregonians with low incomes. HSD also administers the statewide data repository supporting accountable and effective funding and program design. Through a network of providers, including Community Action Agencies, local governmental and community-based planning groups, and community-based and culturally responsive organizations, HSD provides funding for shelter, re-housing support, rent assistance, energy assistance, and supports community service connections to critical needs for health care, education, and nutritious food. Recognizing the need to address root causes, the Housing Stabilization Division seeks to honor tribal sovereignty, advance racial equity, and deploy a human-centered, wraparound approach toward a vision that all Oregonians will have equitable and inclusive access to safe and affordable housing and energy resources ensuring that any experience of housing instability will be rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

Policy, Planning, and Operations

The Policy, Planning, and Operations Section develops policy and program design in support of the Housing Stabilization vision and mission, and in response to legislative and executive mandates to ensure highly effective policy related to housing stability and ensuring that homelessness becomes rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Policy, Planning, and Operations is responsible for keeping abreast of best and promising practices, to maintain communication and alignment with other Agency Divisions, Government Relations, and external enterprise stakeholders including the Department of Justice and the Secretary of State. The Policy, Planning, and Operations Section maintains awareness of HSD governing statutes and rules and leads proposal and review of needed changes, and division budget and legislative concepts and bill review.

Additionally, the Policy, Planning, and Operations Section supports the Division with project management and fiscal and budget analysis. The Policy, Planning, and Operations Section provides division level: project management office (PMO) leadership, project tracking, project intake process management, project workload distribution, equity leadership, racial equity (REAT) coordination and leadership, knowledge management, legislative implementation project management, ARB coordination, legislative concept review coordination, fiscal impact statement responses, and other special project coordination.

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