Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a first level supervisor, providing planning, directing, organizing, and exercising control over nonsupervisory employees assigned to Twelfth Air Force, Air Forces Southern Command, aka 12 AF (AFSOUTH).

Duties

Plan, organize, and direct the activities of the A1 Directorate, Operations Plans Division, ensuring that deliberate, contingency and crisis planning, and execution complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets USAF, Service Component, and Combatant Command needs. Exercise supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Represent 12 AF (AFSOUTH) A1 Directorate with a variety of Federal Agency, DoD, Joint, Nongovernmental, and international partner nation organizations. Serve as a Key and Technical Advisor to the Commander, A1 Director, senior staff members, operational planning teams and groups on matters concerning Manpower, Personnel, Services or Administration.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• Disclosure of Political Appointments
• Leave accrual may be authorized upon request
• This is a Key Position IA W DoD Directive 1200.7. This position cannot be vacated during a national emergency or mobilization without seriously impairing the capability of the organization to function effectively.
• CONUS or OCONUS travel may be required to attend conferences, meetings, or other functions away from the duty site on military or commercial aircraft.
• Must maintain official US passport and obtain visas as required.
• Employee may be required to work outside normal duty hours, extended work schedules including weekends to support contingency or crisis operations.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain A SECRET security clearance.
• Superior Qualifications may be considered if there is demonstratable proof provided on your resume.
• This is a Supervisory Position in which a supervisory probation period may be required.

Qualifications

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, Administrative and Management Positions. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-12, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes: (1) Provide Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning (DCAPES), and Air Component Operations Plan (ACOP) planning and execution necessary to provide allocated forces to the Combatant Commander. (2) Organize, activate expeditionary units, ensure sustainability and manage all deploying force requirements to parts of the United States and other areas of responsibility; (3) Draft, validate and publish deployment and reporting policy and guidance to all units tasked to support operations. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: 1. Expert knowledge of AF and Joint deliberate and crisis action planning processes, expeditionary organizational concepts, and command and control of deployed forces in both joint and AF expeditionary structures; of Contingency Planning with emphasis in determining and managing wartime requirements, force sustainment, bed down, mortuary affairs, determining manpower and organization requirements. Possesses of thorough understanding of key military documents such as National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, Air Force and Joint Doctrine, Theater Campaign Plans, and Operations Orders as they apply to a Service Component Headquarters. 2. Knowledge of safety and security regulations, practices, and procedures. 3. Expert ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions and staff of a small to medium sized organization; to lead, prioritize and direct work; to effectively negotiate and persuade other managers and senior staff members to accept and implement recommendations. 4. Expert skill in communicating both orally and in writing, provide informational briefings to senior leaders at the O-6 or higher level; and ability to establish and maintain effective and positive working relationships with internal and external counterparts and senior leaders. 5. Knowledge and understanding of Global Force Management policies, Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES), Joint Operations Planning and Execution System) JOPES, Manpower Programming and Execution System (MPES), Manpower Military Personnel Appropriation Man-Day Management System (M4S), Joint Training Information Management System (JTIMS), Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS). 6. Expert knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods, management and organizational principles necessary to conduct assessments, analyses and successful execution of steady state and crisis action planning, deployments, sustainment, organization and rotation of forces for a variety of operations consisting of humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, counter drug/counter narcotics and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Contacts

• Address Davis Monthan AFB 3515 S Fifth Street Davis Monthan AFB, AZ 85707 US
• Name: Total Force Service Center
• Phone: 1-800-525-0102
• Email: [email protected]