Duties
The United States Space Force (USSF) in San Diego, CA is searching for a Senior Program Manager for Narrowband SATCOM/MUOS (NH-1101-04, GS-14/15 Equivalent). This is a Senior Material Leader position.
Description:
This supervisory position requires strong leadership/organizational skills; superior communication skills; and the ability to execute a multitude of interrelated efforts. Position requires program office knowledge, satellite communications domain knowledge, extensive understanding of acquisition principles and business acumen. Plans, organizes, directs, and coordinates activities of functional specialists including program management, engineering, cyber security, configuration management, test, and logistics, etc.
This is a Key Leadership Position (KLP). Incumbent must meet or be qualified for a waiver to the following requirements:
- Advanced APDP certification in Program Management (required upon assignment)
- Completed DAU Program Manager's Courses. (must be completed within 6 months of assuming the position)
- Written tenure agreements are required to be assigned to this position
Ideal Candidate:
At the United States Space Force's, Space Systems Command (SSC), we deliver resilient space capabilities to defend the Nation in the contested space domain. SSC is laser-focused on countering the imminent threats in todays and tomorrow's space faring landscape. Through unity of effort across the commercial industry, joint forces, government agencies, and academic and allied partnerships, we are developing resilient system-of-systems space capabilities to maintain the Nation's strategic advantage to operate freely and peacefully in space.
This announcement is for the Senior Materiel Leader position for Narrowband SATCOM/Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). As the Senior Materiel Leader, and program manager for the MUOS and MUOS Service Life Extension ACAT-1 programs, you will be responsible for cost, schedule, performance and risk management. This includes interfacing with Congress, the Office of Secretary of Defense, Geographic and Functional Combatant Commands, and other Services and agencies on a regular basis.
Key Responsibilities:
1. In depth knowledge of the policies, practices, regulations, and laws concerning the acquisition management process and initiatives.
2. Knowledge of safety and security regulations, practices, and procedures.
3. Extensive knowledge of the missions, roles, functions, organizational structures, and operation of the DOD, Space Force, and organizations that govern, interface with, and/or influence the systems acquisition process.
4. Skill to plan, organize, and direct the functions and staff in critical aspects of development and production, support of systems, subsystems, or equipment and to coordinate various aspects of systems acquisition such as engineering, contracting, financial management, configuration, test, and manufacturing.
5. Ability to supervise, mentor, motivate, appraise, and work with subordinate supervisors and non-supervisory employees.
6. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, clearly, concisely, with technical accuracy and to use computers and a variety of software programs and databases, gather and analyze a variety of program information, make sound judgments concerning program progress, and effectively communicate recommendations orally and in writing to higher organizational management and contractors.