Clarification from the agency

Internal Permanent Air Force Employees in the Operations Career Field Only

Duty 1:
Performs career broadening assignments, to develop and maintain a continuous liaison with Congressional
Members and Congressional staff members, other Headquarters Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, other Services, Federally-Funded Research and Development Centers, think tanks, associations, academic institutions, and the Congressional Research Service to ensure informed decision- making by senior Air Force leadership.

Duty 2:
As a career broadener, applies expertise to perform a broad range of highly complex and controversial analyses of programs; to comprehend, assess, and explain Congressional dynamics and Member of Congress prioritization influences and leverage that understanding for the advancement of Air Force strategic interests and development of Air Force congressional strategy.

Duty 3:
Supports Air Force Senior Leader engagements with Congress. Plans, formulates, and/or implements policies to align legislative analysis to support Air Force engagements with Congress. Develops and prepares a variety of correspondence and other documentation, i.e. formal letters, position papers, reports, staff studies, staff summary packages, briefings, charts, bullet background papers, etc. Coordinates actions and develops USAF positions and congressional engagement strategy in conjunction with relevant Secretariat, Air Staff, and MAJCOM offices

Duty 4:
In a career broadening capacity, analyzes the progress of strategy execution and collaborates across Legislative Liaison offices to recommend process improvements to Legislative Liaison leadership. Expertly applies a wide range of analytical and evaluative techniques to design measures of success, measures of performance and other metrics to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of Air Force congressional engagement strategy on legislative outcomes. As required, leads or manages working groups to address specific issues.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Mobility agreement must be signed
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance
• If authorized, PCS will be paid IAW JTR and AF Regulations. If receiving an authorized PCS, you may be subject to completing/signing a CONUS agreement. More information on PCS requirements, may be found at: https://afciviliancareers.com/regulatory/
• PCS cost will be paid IAW Career Broadening Policy under this agreement.
• Career Broadening positions are managed by AFPC/DPZS and are centrally funded.
• Positions are established specifically to provide developmental experience designed to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of a high-potential, mid-level manager.
• Career Broadening also provides training and developmental opportunities at various organizational levels.
• These assignments offer the qualified candidate a unique assignment in that the candidates brings certain experience to the assignment while gaining new experiences in a different work environment
• TEMPORARY PROMOTION: If the position is filled as a temporary promotion, upon completion of the career broadening assignment, the temporary promotion may lead to permanent promotion without further competition
• Position may be subject to random drug testing
• Travel by regularly scheduled commercial or military conveyances IAW Joint Travel Regulations may be required in performance of TDY
• Employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends and/or holidays
• Shift work and emergency overtime may be required
• Employee must maintain current certifications
• Disclosure of Political Appointments

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule, Administrative and Management Positions.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization and must include the expert strategist has mastered the application of a wide range of strategy development tools and the qualitative and/or quantitative analysis methods for the assessment and improvement of congressional engagement effectiveness. Expert knowledge of a wide range of analytical and evaluative techniques and research methods, including tools and sources is applied to comprehensive congressional strategy development and assessment where the boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance; i.e., the actual limits of the project are developed as the study proceeds, in part due to evolving legislative language, Air Force priorities and other factors.

FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Applicants must have served at least 52 weeks at the GS-13 or higher grade (or equivalent in an alternate pay system) within the Federal Civil Service to be considered for referral. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

1. Mastery of knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for the development, assessment and improvement of critical organization strategy and plans for congressional engagement. Ability to analyze facts, identify problems, evaluate findings, draw conclusions and recommend corrective or other appropriate action.

2. Expert knowledge of a wide range of analytical and evaluative techniques and research methods, including tools and sources to support the development, assessment and improvement of critical organization strategy and plans for congressional engagement. Familiarity with congressional legislative process and congressional legislative research tools, tracking systems and processes, to include knowledge of past and present national, OSD, and Air Force policy issues.

3. Ability to work directly with members of Congress, Congressional Committees, or related staffs or working for a non-DoD organization to assist in developing congressional engagement strategy, assess the strategy's effectiveness and recommend improvements.

4. Ability to strategically communicate, including developing key message, message alignment, branding and/or communicate effectiveness measures. To exercise insight, judgment, and diplomacy for establishing and maintaining effective relations between senior Air Force leadership and Congressional contacts.

5. Skill in excellent written and oral communications skills are required due to the high visibility and sensitive work accomplished by this office.

6. Ability to organize and coordinate multiple tasks; to synthesize information and present findings in a logical sequence and assure timely completion, while maintaining composure under stressful conditions to allow timely, accurate decision-making.

7. Ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions and staff of a small to medium sized organization postured for maximum agility and flexibility.

8. Ability to prepare and present briefings to senior DOD officials pertaining to such policy and related issues.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

Your responses to the questionnaire may be compared to the documents you submit. The documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "insufficient information" and you will not receive further consideration for this job.

Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further.

APPRAISALS/AWARDS: Hiring Managers use objective methods and consider previous performance appraisals and awards in the selection process. Current Federal Civilian employees should list any relevant performance related rating and/or awards in your resume.

The following documents are required and must be provided with your application. Applicants who do not submit required documentation to determine eligibility and qualifications will be eliminated from consideration. Other documents may be required based on the eligibility/eligibilities you are claiming. Click here to view the AF Civilian Employment Eligibility Guide and the required documents you must submit to substantiate the eligibilities you are claiming.

1. Online Application: Questionnaire
2. Resume: Your resume 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 is illegible/unreadable. Additional information on resume requirements can be located under "How To Apply".
3. Current Air Force employees: You must submit a legible copy of a SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action. The SF-50, block 24 must contain "1" or "2" AND block 34 must be a "1". Employees eligible under an OPM approved interchange agreement, block 34 may contain a "1" or "2".
4. Promotion Consideration: If you wish to be considered as a promotion candidate and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the one-year time-in-grade requirements. You will need to provide additional SF-50s which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within-Grade, Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old).

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