About the Position: Serve as Division Chief, provides broadly stated assignments, discusses management policies and objectives and delegates authority to accomplish studies and projects assigned. Position located with the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Electronic Proving Ground (EPG), Mission Command and Network Test Directorate, Fort Huachuca, AZ.

Duties

Assign work, discusses management policies and objectives and delegates authority to accomplish studies and projects assigned. Manage the directorate with a great degree of professional independence to effectively plan, organize the work, and direct the staff. Keep the Division Chief advised on significant issues, highly controversial matters and critical problems. Lead the overall data analysis for multiple developmental or operational test projects, to include management of the associated planning, allocation of resources, and test design.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance through the duration of your employment.
• The incumbent of this position must successfully pass a urinalysis screening for illegal drug use prior to appointment and periodically thereafter.
• One-year trial/probationary period may be required.
• Must submit a Financial Disclosure Statement (OGE-450) upon entering the position and annually thereafter.
• This position requires the employee to occasionally travel away from the normal duty station up to 25% of the time.
• This position requires Level II certification in acquisition career field of Test and Evaluation within 60 months of entry into the position.
• A one year supervisory probation to assess your ability to perform supervisory duties is required unless previously completed.
• This position is a Critical Acquisition Position.
• Must sign a written agreement to remain in Federal service in the position for at least three years.

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 EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange AgreementDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceExecutive Order (E.O.) 12721Land Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferOffice of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePeople with Disabilities, Schedule APostal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique AuthoritiesPriority 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 EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the Basic Requirement and experience requirements 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 Requirement: Degree: Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in operations research or bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with 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. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for the positions, you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience one year experience which includes experience performing operations research, and system's analysis and/or managing or directing a team of engineers, scientist, or operations research analyst. Experience working in the test and evaluation of military electronics systems, such as Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13/NH03). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Decision MakingProject ManagementRequirements Analysis and ManagementResearchWriting 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/NH03).

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.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html

Contacts

• Address AD-APF-W04YAA ELECTRONIC PROVING GROUND DO NOT MAIL Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk