Employment Opportunities

FISCAL LEGISLATIVE & BUDGET ANALYST
Baltimore City Council, President’s Office

The Baltimore City Council is seeking a qualified and ambitious candidate to help build the council’s capacity for independent budget and fiscal policy analysis and oversight. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the reform and professionalization of Baltimore’s legislative body. The ideal candidate should have strong project management and communication skills and be able to perform professional level activities related to budget research and fiscal analysis related to the City’s budget and finances, administrative agency operations, fiscal impact statements, and pending legislative proposals.

Title: Fiscal Legislative and Budget Analyst
Closing Date: Continuous until filled
Work Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm some evenings, dependent on hearing schedule; in person Mon-Th
Reports to: Director of Finance and Budget
Salary: $79,507.00 - $127,043.00

All work is executed in accordance with the City Council President’s Office’s mission, vision and values.

Mission Statement: To ensure Baltimore City government offers a best-in-class resident experience that centers equity when engaging with residents and communities, allocating budget dollars, conducting oversight of city agencies and enacting legislation.

Our Vision: We will innovate, advocate and deliver results across City government and neighborhoods so that residents, business owners and visitors champion Baltimore as the best place to visit, live, work and play.

Values:
Results: We are constantly driving toward ‘best-in-class’ when it comes to city services.
Innovation: Don’t settle for the status quo: transformational results require creative problem solving.
Community Centered: Our people make Baltimore great and those residents should inform every decision.
Joy: There is so much to celebrate about our city: we get to share those stories with each other and the world.

This is a fast-paced, all-hands-on-deck work environment with a wide diversity of projects occurring simultaneously. This position requires a candidate to be on site for all Council hearings and meetings related to their work.

I. Job Description
The Fiscal Legislative and Budget Analyst (FLBA) for the Baltimore City Council is in the Office of the Council President and is a member of Budget and Finance team. This is a mid-level position that reports directly to the Director of Finance and Budget. The FLBA is expected to conduct financial and budgetary oversight of City finances in coordination with the City Council and its Committees. The FLBA performs complex financial and policy analysis of legislation introduced before the City Council and at the direction of the Director of Finance and Budget. Furthermore, the FLBA:

• Conducts complex financial and policy analysis of legislation, the annual City budgets, agency operations, and items in front of the Board of Estimates, and provides recommendations based upon that analysis.
• Manages and executes fiscal and budget projects, oversight, and investigations as requested by the City Council Director of Finance and Budget.
• Authors reports, studies, and memos on City budgets, fiscal policies and procedures, revenue and expenditure estimates, appropriations to City agencies, legislation, and oversight investigations.
• Authors reports on the fiscal relationship of the City government with State, Federal, County and other governments and organizations.
• Collaborates with and trains Council members and staff to build fiscal and budgetary capacity
  within the Council for an effective budget process and the delivery of compelling questioning and
  commentary during Council and Committee hearings.
• Builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders to effectively deliver on the position’s responsibilities.
• Applies analytics (statistics and operations research) to government data to describe, predict, and improve government performance.
• Collaborate with City Council President’s team to provide fiscal and budgetary expertise as needed.
• When needed, supports and manages Board of Estimate processes, functions, and relationships in service of the City Council President’s role on the Board of Estimates and other engagement with the Comptroller’s office.
• Attends relevant conferences and consults industry publications to learn about and implement best practices associated with public budgeting and public finance.

II. Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the best practices of public budgeting and public finance.
• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of budgetary and fiscal analysis including research and statistical analysis and their application to budgetary and fiscal problems.
• Demonstrated track record of effective collection, organization, interpretation and presentation of fiscal, budgetary, and operational data.
• Expertise in the analysis and evaluation, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, of the effectiveness of programs in meeting established goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply a variety of laws, rules, regulations, standards and procedures to budgetary, fiscal, and oversight matters.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and present reports and/or recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Knowledge of the background, issues, and current trends in municipal government finance and other related urban studies (preferred, not required).
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with City officials, departmental personnel and personnel of other governmental agencies and institutions.
• Deliver complex analysis in clear language for wide public consumption.
• Communicates proactively and effectively to keep team members apprised of financial, budgetary, and oversight activity and results.
• Self motivated and entrepreneurial in the delivery of work product.

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK: Eligible candidates under final consideration for appointment to positions identified as positions of trust will be required to authorize the release of and successfully complete a criminal conviction check

The City of Baltimore is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Financial Disclosure: This position is required to complete a Financial Disclosure pursuant to Sections 7-7, 7-8, and 7-9 of the City Ethics Law.

01/09/25