The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California is searching for a Management and Program Specialist (NH-0301-03, GS 12/13 equivalent).

Description:
The Management and Program Specialist will lead and manage the full lifecycle of senior executive talent management activities, including oversight of SES, DISES, SL, HQE and Acquisition Leadership Positions. The role requires daily engagement with senior leadership to define and validate organizational needs, ensuring that all positions align with applicable classification and acquisition criteria, particularly SML/ML roles. Drafting, reviewing, and advising on position descriptions, ensuring alignment with agency missions, leadership competency models, and federal executive qualification standards. On a daily basis, will coordinate closely with HQ SF/S1LO to ensure compliance with Department of the Air Force senior executive policy and hiring guidance, and will liaison regularly with SAF/MRL to include developing, reviewing, and refining executive-level position descriptions, advising on organizational design, and supporting leadership planning to ensure the right leaders are placed in the right roles. Also collaborate with SAF/AQH for oversight and validation of acquisition leadership positions. They will be the subject matter expert on acquisition criteria and will ensure both positions and candidates meet all statutory and regulatory requirements.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree, experience at FLDCOM or Headquarters Air Force (HAF) experience with Senior Executives and talent management; experience working on a General Officer level staff. May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDYs. May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled basis. DoW HR experience, knowledge of MS Office and ability to produce executive quality deliverables. Knowledge of basic HR principles and practices. Excellent communicator (oral and written).

Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of processes and procedures to advise the SSC Commander on senior leader requirements.
2. Ability to encourage new ideas and innovations; manage human, information resources strategically and build coalitions to achieve common goals.
3. Skill in working with customers to assess needs, provide assistance, resolve problems, and satisfy expectations.
4. Ability to advise and assist management officials and personnel on general and specialized aspects of civilian personnel programs and to keep abreast of program changes resulting from initiatives of the DoW, OPM, and other appropriate authorities within DAF, USAF, and USSF.
5. Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships and to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
6. Ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements; determine goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinate with other organizations; monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes.
7. Ability to identify problems and use sound judgment and decisions to generate and evaluate alternatives and make recommendations.
8. Possess strong interpersonal and problem solving skills and the ability to communicate oral presentations where clarity, accuracy, and concise articulation are essential to recommend course of actions, provide advice and guidance to managers, and to ensure precise understanding of technical content.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• PCS is not authorized. Incentive is not authorized
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance with eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
• This position has been designated for drug testing. Incumbent is subject to random urinalysis testing as a condition of employment.
• May be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evening, weekends, and/or holidays.
• 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.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.

Qualifications

The 0301 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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