Chief, Staffing (Recruitment and Placement)

The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) 61st Force Support Squadron (61 FSS) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California is searching for a Chief, Staffing (Recruitment and Placement) (NH-0201-03, GS 12/13 equivalent).

Description:
In this position, you will be responsible for planning, developing, and executing the full range of recruitment, placement, affirmative employment, and management advisory services for Los Angeles Air Force Base, the United States Air Force, and Space Systems Command. This role demands a high level of proficiency in federal staffing, suitability, and hiring processes to address diverse and complex challenges. You will develop innovative staffing strategies, ensure compliance with suitability standards, conduct background checks, coordinate pre-employment processing, and manage the onboarding for all new hires.

Ideal Candidate:
In this position, you will be responsible for planning, developing, and executing the full range of recruitment, placement, affirmative employment, and management advisory services for Los Angeles Air Force Base, the United States Air Force, and Space Systems Command. This role demands a high level of proficiency in federal staffing, suitability, and hiring processes to address diverse and complex challenges. You will develop innovative staffing strategies, ensure compliance with suitability standards, conduct background checks, coordinate pre-employment processing, and manage the onboarding for all new hires.

Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of, and skill in applying a wide range of staffing and recruitment laws, Executive Orders, regulations, policies, concepts, and practices sufficient to troubleshoot and resolve the most difficult and complex problems associated with providing comprehensive recruitment and placement advisory services for the Space Systems Command Center.
2. Knowledge of safety and security regulations, practices and procedures.
3. Ability to plan, organize and direct the functions and staff of a small to medium sized organization.
4. A sound theoretical knowledge and practical understanding of human resources management functions, theories, and techniques of basic relationships of the various disciplines.
5. Ability to develop effective policies, goals, identify new developments or issues to successfully direct civilian personnel programs and/or policy actions.
6. Knowledge of the methods and techniques of fact-finding, analysis, and resolution of complex problems and the development of concrete action plans to solve problems.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Employee must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
• Required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
• PCS is authorized. (This is a Centrally Managed position)
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.

Qualifications

The 0201 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
   • Job title
   • Detailed duties and accomplishments
   • Employer's name and address
   • Supervisor's name and phone number
   • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
   • Hours per week
   • Salary, if applicable
4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

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