Job opening: PROGRAM ANALYST-DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY
Salary: $98 496 - 128 043 per year
Published at: Aug 29 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
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The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a senior program analyst planning, organizing, and determining necessary policies, regulations, directives, programs, doctrine, and procedures for the establishment and maintenance of assigned major acquisition programs involving Air Force fixed-wing and vertical-lift aircraft.
Duties
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Plans, programs, and budgets rotary-wing test programs
Documents planning and test programming decisions/recommendations in appropriate formats to meet Air Force and Major Command requirements
Actively participates in strategic planning to improve organizational direction and focus using strategic planning tools and techniques
Prepares and delivers oral presentations such as briefings with other staff service functions and activities to secure cooperation, resolve controversial matters, and convey information relative to proposed changes in assigned program(s)
Resolves day-to-day funding and programming issues as they pertain to the execution of the current fiscal year budget and the programming of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Obtain and maintain security clearance
- This is a designated Drug Testing Position
- Work may occasionally require travel away from normal duty station on commercial or military aircraft
- 5 years of Test and Evaluation experience highly desired
- Experience in planning programming and budgeting projects and interacting with project management officials
- Experience with building and maintaining project schedules
- Up to 60% telework possible (must reside in the local area)
Qualifications
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In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions for Administrative and Management positions located here
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One-year specialized experience planning, organizing, and determining necessary policies, regulations, directives, programs, doctrine, and procedures for the establishment and maintenance of assigned major acquisition programs involving Air Force fixed-wing and vertical-lift aircraft.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of command level plans and programs for conducting major operations such as AFSOC fixed-wing aircraft capabilities, development, test and evaluation, fielding and employment; USAF vertical-lift aircraft capabilities, development, test and evaluation, fielding and employment; Combat Search and Rescue/Personnel Recovery (CSAR/PR) mission areas including tactics, techniques and procedures; CSAR/PR mission execution and integration with ground forces and other airborne and space assets; and associated mission and flight operations, deployment, mobilization, exercise, training systems, foreign military sales, Planning, Programming, & Budgeting System (PPBE), acquisition, special operations, or similar operations.
Knowledge of military (including command level) program goals and objectives; the sequence and timing of key operational events and milestones; methods of evaluating the effectiveness of planning actions related to actual events; and the relationship of the various command entities involved in overall program planning and execution of military operations and evaluations.
Knowledge of the application of military aircraft operations expertise as they apply to programs and weapons systems.
Skill in designing and conducting comprehensive studies and preparing solutions to especially broad, important, and severe military operational and contingency areas.
Ability to plan and organize studies or projects and to negotiate effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations, where proposals involve substantial resources, and require extensive changes in established concepts and procedures.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address EHA DHA
550 C Street West
JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150
US
- Name: Air Force Test Center Recruitment
- Email: [email protected]
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