As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 164 open management and program analyst postings that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 1. Posted in the last 30 days: 161. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and tag each by its occupational category. This page describes one category, Management and Program Analysis, which USAJOBS files under series 0343, and the numbers on it refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. The rest of the guide explains what the work is, how it differs from two neighboring series with similar names, and what the data says about who is hiring and what they pay.
What a management and program analyst does
The title sounds generic, and the series is deliberately broad, but the work is concrete. A management and program analyst studies how an agency’s programs run and recommends how they should run better: whether a program is meeting its objectives, how its money and staff are allocated, what its performance measures should be, where a process wastes time, and what leadership should decide next. The daily output is analysis in written form: reports, briefings, data summaries, policy recommendations and the coordination that follows them.
Most of that work is reading, modeling, writing and meeting, which is why the series appears in our inventory at all. It does not require a laboratory, a flight line or a courtroom. In practice it does require proximity to the leadership and program staff the analyst supports, which is why most postings carry a duty station with telework. The split below shows today’s proportion.
How 0343 differs from 0340 and 0301
Three federal series share the words “program” and “management”. Management and Program Analysis (0343) is the analyst’s series: the job is to evaluate and improve a program, not to run it. Program Management (0340) is the manager’s series: the job is to direct a program, control its resources and answer for its results. Miscellaneous Administration and Program (0301) is the catch-all for administrative and program work that does not fit a specific series. If your experience is analyzing and advising, 0343 is the right target. If you have run a program and its staff, browse the Program Management hub too. If your titles have been “specialist” or “coordinator” rather than “analyst”, look at the Miscellaneous Administration and Program hub. The counts on this page cover 0343 only.
Fully remote or telework eligible?
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the agency marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere in the country. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and the agency allows some of the week from home. We never merge the two, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular office. Here is today’s split across every management and program analyst posting we hold:
If the fully remote count reads zero or a small number, that is the category’s current posting pattern, not a gap in our data. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every occupation; if a 0343 posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near a federal office, the telework tier is the bulk of the market, and the remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement does and does not promise.
Which agencies post them
Analyst postings are spread across government, since every agency has programs to evaluate, but they are not spread evenly. The hiring organizations with the most open management and program analyst postings in our inventory right now are:
- Defense Logistics Agency 11 listings
- Citizenship and Immigration Services 10 listings
- Internal Revenue Service 9 listings
- Federal Aviation Administration 8 listings
- Air Education and Training Command 5 listings
- Department of State Headquarters 5 listings
- Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command 5 listings
- Defense Human Resources Activity 4 listings
Each name links to that organization’s hub, which lists every posting we hold for it, analyst and otherwise. Across the category, distinct hiring organizations with an open analyst posting today: 82. An applicant who treats 0343 as the target and the agency as secondary has the whole list. The names shift as announcements open and close, and the organizations that appear are USAJOBS hiring organizations, so a large department shows up as its components, not as one line.
What they pay
Advertised pay on management and program analyst postings we hold currently runs from $50,460 to $228,000 a year, with a typical figure of $127,451. The GS grades advertised span 7–15.
A word on “typical.” A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single salary. For each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every analyst posting in the inventory. The low and high ends are the edges advertised on any posting in the category, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers.
The grade range counts only postings on the General Schedule. Some organizations that post analyst work, the Federal Aviation Administration and several Department of Defense acquisition and laboratory organizations among them, pay under their own systems with broad pay bands rather than GS grades. Those postings carry a pay range but no GS grade, so they are in the pay figures and out of the grade range. The GS pay scale guide applies to the GS postings alone, and remember that fully remote employees are generally paid on the locality table for where they live.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 161 analyst postings. In the last 7 days: 123. Most recent analyst posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace of the category: how much of the current pool arrived within the past month. Analyst announcements are often open for a short window to fill one or a few vacancies, and a closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Check the category hub every few days, newest first, with your materials ready.
What qualifications typically look like
The 0343 series has no positive education requirement: there is no specific degree you must hold to be eligible, which is a large part of why the category is a realistic entry for people coming from operations, business analysis, project coordination, policy research or process improvement work outside government. What announcements ask for instead is specialized experience, usually a year of it at the next lower grade, that matches the duties described. At the lower grades, graduate education can substitute for that experience, and the announcement sets out the exact combinations it accepts. At the higher grades, expect to show that you have led analyses that changed how a program ran, briefed senior officials, or coordinated work across organizational lines. The federal resume guide covers how to present private-sector analytical work in terms a federal reviewer can credit.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from private-sector management consulting? The core skills overlap, but a government analyst is embedded in one agency’s ongoing operations rather than moving between client engagements, and the work product is the agency’s own decisions rather than a deliverable handed to a client.
Can I move between agencies in this series? More easily than in most federal occupations. Because 0343 is a standardized series used across nearly every agency, analysts routinely move between agencies over a career.
How to search for these
Start at the Management and Program Analysis hub, which lists every open 0343 posting we hold with its tier, hiring organization and advertised pay, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. Add the Program Management and Miscellaneous Administration and Program hubs if your experience fits those series. If you need fully remote work, the fully remote list is the complete set, not a sample; if you can live near a federal office, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out. Every listing on the site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below.