The United States Space Force (USSF) at Peterson SFB, Colorado Springs, CO is searching for a Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Sensors Branch Chief, MD2 (NH-1101-04, GS-14/15 Equivalent).

Description:
The United States Space Force (USSF) seeks a highly motivated and experienced Supervisory Sensors Branch Chief to oversee the Space Domain Awareness Sensors Branch programs. The Sensors programs play a critical role in space domain awareness, monitoring, and tracking objects in space to ensure the safety, security, and operational effectiveness of national and allied space assets. You will lead a dynamic team of program managers, engineers, cybersecurity professionals, and logisticians maintaining and sustaining a global network of radars, telescopes, and satellite ground stations all contributing to the USSF mission of Space Domain Awareness.

Ideal Candidate:
Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Space Systems, Business Administration, or a related field. At least 5 years of experience in program management, acquisition, or a related discipline, preferably within the DoD or aerospace sector. Must be able to obtain DAWIA Practitioner Certification within 4 years of job start. Knowledge of space surveillance systems, optical technologies, or similar technical domains. Proven expert level leadership experience in managing large, complex programs or projects. Strong leadership and coordination skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance. Preferred Qualifications DAWIA Practitioner certification in Program Management or equivalent. Masters degree in program management, or a related technical field. Experience with systems engineering principles and practices, particularly within the space domain. Familiarity with space surveillance systems (e.g., Eglin Radar, GEODSS, Space Fence). Strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of the principles, concepts, policies, and laws; concerning the acquisition management process and sustainment mission and function in order to analyze and determine space system sustainment requirements.
2. Ability to lead a team and/or individual members of a team ensuring the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the teams ' strategies, goals, objectives, work. Plans, and work products and services. Ability to advise/guide personnel and achieve organizational goals, objectives, and work plans. Knowledge of safety, security, personnel management, and EEO regulations, practices, and procedures.
3. Knowledge of the missions, roles, function, organizational structures, and operation of the Department of Defense and other entities that govern, interface with, and/or influence the systems acquisition process and integrated life cycle management.
4. Skill in stratifying resources against approved programs; planning, presenting, and executing budgets; analyzing budget impacts on programs; forecasting long-term funding requirements; reviewing, evaluating, and presenting data; and supporting analysis of programs and activities' specialized documentation, etc.
5. Ability to plan, analyze, and coordinate a system or portion of a major system's acquisition and transfer into operational use; to include the identification and correlation of specific requirements for money, manpower, material, facilities, and services needed to support the program; and to develop and analyze data to determine logistic objectives and goals, identify support requirements (including funding, contract development, and other technical support requirements), and establish relationships between the participants involved in deploying the plan.
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.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
• Safeguards classified or sensitive budget-related information and/or files.
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
• PCS/relocation funding is authorized.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): 20 days a year.
• This position is part of the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).
• This position has been designated for drug testing. Incumbent is subject to random urinalysis testing as a condition of employment.
• Employee must within 30-days of assuming this position and by 31 October annually thereafter, file an OGE-450, “Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
• This is a Critical Acquisition Position (CAP).

Qualifications

The 1101 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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