THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST, Position Description Number T5113000 and is part of the OH CoS Command Admin Office, National Guard. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a project facilitator across the component/command for cascading the JFHQ Strategic Plan into subordinate organizations using Balanced Scorecard methodologies, and the Continuous Process Improvement initiative.

Duties

As a MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAM ANALYST, GS-0343-11, you will perform the following duties: Serves as the recognized technical advisor to the installations across the component/command in programming/implementing the BSC given a higher headquarters Strategic Plan and Strategy Map. Advises leaders in cascading the JFHQ Strategic Plan into subordinate organizations. Ensures a mutually supporting, aligned plan exists at each major subordinate level. Integrates BSC with Dashboards and other tools and methods of quality management and improvement. Serves as the technical advisor to the installations across the component/command in CPI. Plans, directs, integrates, and executes all aspects of the command's CPI program within cost, schedule, performance, and/or system supportability requirements. Develops goals and objectives that integrate management objectives for successful command-wide implementation. Makes recommendations for process improvements, improving quality, reducing costs, and establishing appropriate process metrics and process controls. Acts as change agent in assuring, directing, and performing the steps necessary to create business cases based on objective data within the framework of the CPI methodology. Works with senior leadership in planning, organizing, and overseeing the projects of command activities in concert with direction from The Adjutant General (TAG) staff. Facilitates significant customer driven results oriented quality and process improvement activities using Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and various CPI strategies, as appropriate, across the command. Promotes team building and implements quality improvements while assuring team(s) use an organized, structured, and robust CPI methodology to provide recommendations, solutions, and process controls. Responsible for implementing quantitative and qualitative methods within the scope of the respective project and reporting of results. Maintains CPI/project knowledge management system to provide strategic advice. Prepares and submits operating and capital expenditure budgets within established timeframes. Defends and supports budget. Maintains accurate financial records pertaining to CPI program. Directs, coordinates, and oversees project/study work. Serves as the project leader for State-level projects as a subject matter expert (SME). Provides technical direction in project management, team building, facilitation, process improvement analysis, and the methodology required to develop and substantiate a business case for the selected project. Provides technical advice on strategic issues. Collaborates with BSC and CPI practitioners in other business mission areas to improve end-to-end processes throughout the command or equivalent organization. Responsible for leading complex projects, often cutting across organizational lines. Advises command leadership and staff regarding policies, procedures, and directives of higher level management or headquarters in regards to CPI activities. Diplomatically and professionally explains expectations to team members and provides regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses of conclusions. Provides policy recommendations. Promotes identification of potential improvement opportunities and advises management of these opportunities. Assists management officials (site directors, deputy directors, and process sponsors/owners), SMEs, and others in defining project scope, priority, and project staffing with a particular emphasis on projects that cut across organizational lines and deal with complex issues. Advises management and colleagues on difficult problems, conducts special studies, and proposes options and alternatives representing the command, or equivalent organization. Leads brainstorming sessions on significant issues. Ensures actions taken directly, as well as those by team members, promote an environment in which all members are empowered to participate in and contribute to effective mission accomplishment. Defines customer "critical to quality" factors, process improvements on key initiatives that result in significant improvements in service delivery, reduces operational unit costs, increases quality, and reduces process cycle time. Utilizes BSC and CPI methodology including, but not limited to, a wide range of statistical methods and tools, mathematical techniques, simulation, modeling, and process mapping. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Certification as a CPI/LSS Black Belt is required within one year of assignment as a CPI. Experience as a Green Belt trainer and mentor is required.
• Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.
• The employee may be required to carry an electronic device (cellular phone/pager) to facilitate contact 24 hours per day 365 days per year unless on official leave or TDY.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
• Position requires a SECRET security clearance.

Qualifications

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Applicants who have the 1 year of appropriate specialized experience, as indicated in the table, are not required by this standard to have general experience, education above the high school level, or any additional specialized experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements. OR Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified in the table, and may be computed by first determining the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11. (When crediting education that requires specific course work, prorate the number of hours of related courses required as a proportion of the total education to be used.)

Education

If you are using education to qualify for this position,

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

or

3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree

or

LL.M., if related

You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. To receive credit for education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the education requirements for this position.

Contacts

• Address OH CoS Command Admin Office 2825 West Dublin Granville Rd Columbus, OH 43235 US
• Name: Jeffrey Watkins
• Phone: 614-336-7101
• Email: [email protected]