About the Position:The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Lead will be assisting the Chief, Joint Data Branch with the planning and execution of Joint Technical Coordination for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME) cases for the Joint Munition Effectiveness Manual (JMEM) Weaponeering System (JWS) product and pre-generated weaponeering estimates. Several U.S. coalition partners have FMS cases to enable organic weaponeering capability that is consistent with U.S. weaponeering in the joint targeting cycle.

Duties

The FMS Lead will oversee the development of PkLook Up Tools for foreign partners required now as a result of a new Defense Security Cooperation Agency policy on civilian casualty reduction. This involves all aspects of managing, monitoring, coordinating, analyzing, and integrating the complete FMS program for case implementation through case closure. The FMS Lead also performs program management and technical oversight functions to accomplish the mission of the JTCG/ME FMS cases in collaboration with the Chief, Joint Data Branch to include: Coordinate with various DoD clients to support FMS products. Ensure effective forecasting, planning, development, implementation, and assessment of an FMS portfolio. Identify, analyze, and evaluate complex systems, policies, processes, or systems related to JTCG/ME FMS products. Coordinate with DoD, Joint Staff, and Combatant Commands (CCMD) communities to scope requirements, develop way ahead, and implement FMS programs to support partner nations. Develop and deliver program updates as required and identify and communicate potential risks in program execution. Collect, complete, organize and interpret programmatic, technical, and financial data in support of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases. Brief senior program and foreign customer leadership on project schedules, status, and milestones, including being able to create and present technical and programmatic briefings in support of Program Management Reviews (PMRs). Assist Branch Chief with ensuring resources are appropriately aligned to successfully meet internal and external customer deliverable requirements. Assist Branch Chief with ensuring resources are appropriately aligned to successfully meet internal and external customer deliverable requirements.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Secret Clearance is required
• Probationary period may be required.
• Travel may be required up to 25%.
• Financial Disclosure OGE-450 is required.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Education Requirement for Engineering series positions-0801: A. Degree: professional engineering. To be acceptable, the curriculum must: (1) be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABEn as a professional engineering curriculum; or 2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying professional engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. 1.Professional registration -- Current registration as a professional engineer by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. 2.Written Test-- Evidence of having successfully passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) examination, or the written test required for professional registration, which is administered by the Boards of Engineering Examiners in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3.Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of a professional engineering curriculum as described in paragraph A. 4.Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in engineering technology or in an appropriate professional field, e.g., physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. NOTE: You must provide a letter of reference stating that you have at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. The letter must be signed by the engineer who provided the professional engineer supervision. It must also include their name, phone number, and engineer credentials (i.e. engineer education or professional certificates). Lack of this documentation will make you ineligible to be referred. Basic Education Requirement for Physicist series positions - 1310 : A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in physics, or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. OR B. Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. The courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. Basic Requirement for Operations Research Series positions - 1515: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research; or a degree with at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus. *ADDITIONAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS CONTINUED IN ADDITIONAL NIFORMATION SECTION* In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: To qualify, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as; (1) Developing data for weaponeering analysis or have used weaponeering tools (ie. Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manual (JMEM), Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (AJEM), Digital Imagery Exploitation Engine (DIEE), Probability of Kill Lookup Tool (PKLUT), etc.); (2) Documenting technical analysis in presentation and technical report formats; AND (3) Overseeing program plans, performance, and budget. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (DB-03 or GS-13 equivalent). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: LeadershipOral CommunicationProject ManagementTechnical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (DB-03).

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address FN-W262AA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk