About the Position: Join us at the United States Southern Command. We provide direct support to a four-star unified Combatant Commander, but are compact enough that our staff also works with senior leadership representatives of our inter-service, inter-agency and (public and private) international partner organizations. Our contribution to furthering our country's relationships with South and Central American nations and peoples are substantial.

Duties

Analyze Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) financial resources necessary to achieve USSOUTHCOM’s mission, vision and strategic goals. Develop program policy and procedures for use throughout the Command for Active Component (AC) and Reserve Component (RC) forces. Supervise preparation of the HQ, USSOUTHCOM Army Program Objective Memorandum (POM) to include economic, and cost analyses. Audit HQ command program year's resource requirements through the Army POM, BES, OSD Budget, and President's Budget. Plan work and program the activities of staff employees. Serve as Chief Programming Branch Acquisition Division, responsible for Army resource programming, analysis, and evaluation within the Resource and Analysis Directorate (J8) HQ, US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM).

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This is a drug testing position; this position is subject to a pre-employment screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• This position requires travel away from the duty station up to 25% of the time.
• This position requires incumbent to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
• This position requires the incumbent to obtain and maintain a Financial Management Level 3 Certification.

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. 30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Department of Army Civilian EmployeesDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes experience coordinating command resource requirements through the services' Program Objective Memorandum (POM), Budget Estimate Submissions (BES) and the President's budget, tracking programs throughout Congressional budget cycle and revising budget data to reflect legislative changes. Experience assembling and/or preparing background budgetary data, and documents narrative justification for congressional testimony. Experience reviewing, analyzing and making recommendations on command programming actions, to include cost effectiveness, service supportability, and revising ongoing programs. Experience in budget execution of funding for each Program Objective Memorandum program, coordinating with Portfolio managers and component comptrollers, consolidating, standardizing, and analyzing various types of program, funding, and manpower data relative to requirements and Office of the Secretary of Defense funding documents throughout the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution system (PPBES). Experience reviewing requirements and programs to ensure command resourcing needs are clearly defined and to identify potential problems; and that project and program objectives are defined and realistically stated. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Financial ManagementLeadershipOral CommunicationPlanning and Evaluating 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 (GS-13).

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address FR-APF-W096AA HQ USSOUTHCOM DO NOT MAIL Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
• Email: [email protected]