02/09/2026
The Federal VA is hiring a program assistant for the Fargo National Cemetery to assist the Manager, Jennifer Lieder.
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Duties:
Incumbent serves as a Program Support Assistant for the Fargo National Cemetery. Work assignments involve maintaining fund control activity listings and monitor daily availability of funds, forecast anticipated expenditures, installs controls for cost accounting, and makes necessary adjustments for changing funding requirements.
The incumbent assists the Cemetery Director in the preparation of the quarterly operating budget and laying out the operations of the Cemetery program. The incumbent is responsible for calculating percentages and tabulation of financial data from daily activity files for budget ex*****on. He/she initiates justifications for funds and personnel by analyzing past performances, selecting, and compiling information, and composing narrative statements for the Directors approval. Assists in the preparation of yearly budget estimate requirements by extracting and consolidating required information. Advises and recommends changes in operational budget plan. Takes necessary actions to fund for salary, payments of contracts, services, and purchases.
Projects estimates of cost accounting for accounts, current, outstanding, or anticipated. Makes allotment changes or adjustments; programs distribution of funds to appropriate control points from TDA or as directed by supervisor; advises supervisors of new or changing trends in budgetary requirement. Makes changes and adjustments in compliance with regulatory requirement, budgetary limitations, reconciles balances of fund control points with financial reports and other printout to avoid an anti-deficiency of funds that would bring discredit upon the National Cemetery and Agency.
Performs public outreach as needed.
Work schedule: Required to work Monday through Friday. May include occasional weekends. Due to the mission of the National Cemetery, the cemetery cannot be closed for more than 2 consecutive days at any given time. Additionally, when a Federal holiday falls on a Monday or Friday, staff may be required to work on that holiday or a Saturday. All staff is required to work Memorial Day and Veteran's Day each year. Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.
This position is located at the Fargo National Cemetery in Harwood, North Dakota.
