ANALYST IV (Allocations & funding)

Job Title: Analyst IV

Location: Remote

Client address: San Francisco

Schedule: Contract - Full-time (assume 40 hours/week)

Duration: 6 months

Work Schedule: Full-Time

Interview: In-person / Teams (client discretion) 

About the Role

The Judicial Council of California’s Center for Families, Children & the Courts (CFCC) is seeking a highly skilled Analyst IV to support the development of a centralized allocation and fiscal operations framework. CFCC manages approximately $430 million in annual pass-through funding, distributed across courts, statewide partners, providers, and other entities.

This role is critical in ensuring consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency across multiple programs with varying statutory, regulatory, and funding requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Standardize allocation processes across all CFCC programs to ensure consistency and compliance
• Document allocation methodologies using clear and uniform templates
• Develop approval matrices defining roles and decision-making authority across teams
• Establish and strengthen internal controls for allocations, invoicing, monitoring, and reporting
• Map and standardize allocation workflows, including cross-functional processes
• Design and implement invoice review and approval procedures to ensure fiscal integrity
• Build the foundational structure for the central allocation unit, including workflow ownership
• Develop standardized fiscal oversight tools, templates, and reporting frameworks
• Conduct complex analytical reviews of funding requirements
• Collaborate with supervisors, managers, and program teams to ensure sustainable implementation
• Define roles and responsibilities for analysts, supervisors, and managers
• Support uniform monitoring, tracking, and reporting across all programs

Minimum Qualification:

Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience Required: 6+ years in an analyst role in the specified functional area

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Policy & procedure analysis: Ability to review, analyze, and recommend organizational policy and procedures

Program development: Participate in developing new or revised programs, systems, procedures, methods of operation

Monitor effectiveness: Track and evaluate results of new initiatives

Principles & practices: Demonstrate knowledge of specified field

Organizational & interpersonal skills: Display organizational, interpersonal, and professional skills

Interpretation of rules/regulations: Apply requirements, rules, regulations related to assigned program area

Data analysis: Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analysis of data

Full JD: 

CFCC manages $430M in annual pass-through funding, distributed across courts, statewide partners, providers, the State Bar, etc. Each program’s allocation methodology varies depending on statutory, regulatory, grant specific, or fund specific requirements.

• Standardize allocation processes across all CFCC programs to ensure consistency and compliance.

• Document allocation methodologies in clear, uniform templates for all funding sources.

• Develop approval matrices that define roles and decision‑making authority for analysts, supervisors, managers, and leadership.

• Establish and strengthen internal controls for allocations, invoicing, monitoring, and reporting.

• Map and standardize allocation workflows, including cross‑unit processes and routing steps.

• Create and refine invoice review and approval procedures to ensure accuracy and fiscal integrity.

• Build the foundational operational structure for the central allocation unit, including role definitions and workflow ownership.

• Develop standardized fiscal oversight tools, templates, and reporting structures that support consistent tracking and monitoring across all programs.

• Collaborate with supervisors, managers, and program staff to ensure new structures are accurate, realistic, and operationally sustainable.

• Standardized allocation processes

• Documented methodologies

• Clear approval matrices

• Internal controls

• Uniform monitoring and reporting structures

• Defined roles for analysts, supervisors, and managers

• Conduct complex analytical reviews of funding requirements

• Map and standardize allocation workflows

• Develop invoice review and approval processes

• Build the foundational structure for the central allocation unit

• Create fiscal oversight tools and templates

Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years in an analyst role in the specified functional area.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

•  Ability to review, analyze and recommend to management organizational policy and procedures for agency operations.

• Ability to participate in the development of new or revised programs, systems and procedures and methods of operation and monitor the effectiveness and results of new initiatives.

• Demonstrate knowledge of principles and practices of specified field.

• Ability to display organizational, interpersonal and professional skills.

• Ability to interpret, explain and apply requirements, rules and regulations related to issues in the assigned program area.

• Display knowledge of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of data