Deputy Director

Duties
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• Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of Assignments Directorate, ensuring that Active Guard Reserve and Reserve assignments, Force Development, Education and Incentives, Accessions, and Pre-trained Individual Manpower complies with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. Develops goals and objectives that integrate organization and Headquarters Air Force, ARPC, and Air Force Reserve objectives.
• Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management.
• Represents Assignments Directorate with a variety of installation and functional area organizations. Attends high level conferences and meetings at HQ ARPC, HQ USAF, HQ AFRC, HQ AFPC, the Air National Guard Readiness Center, other service components, Major Air Commands, and other agencies.
• Actively participates in reviews of legislation, DoD instructions and USAF regulations and directives, and accurately evaluates and analyzes as well as researches and responds to Air Force Board of Correction of Military Records and Congressional Inquiries: determines applicability to directorate and provides advisory opinions on interpretation, extent of application and effect on directorate operations. Reviews and determines impact of automation plans and proposals on current manual operations.
• Designs and conducts broad-based and comprehensive studies of limitless boundaries. The studies are to improve Efficiency by identifying, analyzing, proposing, and devising new organizational structures, realignment of functions and staff levels.

Requirements
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Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
• If authorized, PCS will be paid IAW JTR and AF Regulations. If receiving an authorized PCS, you may be subject to completing/signing a CONUS agreement. More information on PCS requirements, may be found at: https://afciviliancareers.com/regulatory/
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• Disclosure of Political Appointments
• Depending on the type of position (competitive/excepted) you are selected for, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial period.
• Upon completion of your probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft
• The employee may be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays
• Must secure and maintain a TOP SECRET security clearance
• Limited area of consideration to Command-Wide Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) AF Internal or AF DCIPS Candidates only. Applicants must be a current AFRC employee to be eligible
• This is a supervisory position. A one (1) year supervisory probationary period is required if applicant selected has not previously met this requirement
• This is a centrally managed position
• This is a key position. Incumbent must be removed from their military recall status if alternatives for filling the position during an emergency are not available
• The incumbent may be required to take part in test alerts and practice exercises. Mobilization-key position is a key position under the provisions of AFI 36-202, civilian mobility
• This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP). The employee is subject to random drug testing
• The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing and participation in random drug testing as a condition of employment in accordance with AFM 44-198, Air Force Civilian Drug Demand Reduction Program

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) Working with directing a program segment that performs technical, administrative, protective, investigative, or professional work; (2) providing complex administrative or technical or professional services directly affecting a large or complex multi-mission military installation; (3) performing a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of Reserve practices, guidelines, policies, programs, regulations, and laws related to personnel management; (4) using personnel systems and personnel requirements relating to Reserve appointments, assignments, force development, joint qualification system and medical recruitment program.

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.

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. Knowledge of mastery of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of Reserve practices, guidelines, policies, programs, regulations, and laws related to personnel management. Expertise in procedures unique to the Reserve forces along with knowledge of personnel systems and personnel requirements relating to Reserve appointments, assignments, force development, joint qualification system and medical recruitment program matters.

2. Knowledge of safety and security regulations, practices, and procedures.

3. Ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions and staff of a small to medium sized organization.

4. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

5. Skill in analyzing organizational and operational problems and develop timely and economical solutions, working out solutions to problems and/or questions relating to work.

6. Ability to organize and lead teams tasked to resolve complex data issues and implement new technologies and skill to plan, organize and direct functions of staff and resources in critical aspects of development, production, and sustainment activities in support of systems, subsystems, and business processes.

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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.

120-Day Register: This announcement may result in a 120-day register that may be used to fill like vacancies for 120 days after the closing date. Applicants may be referred for consideration as vacancies occur.

Priority Placement Program (PPP) Applicant Eligible: PPP Applicants, if determined well qualified and selected, will be placed at the at the full performance level. You must include the applicable completed copy of the PPP Self-Certification Checklist dated within 30 days along with the documents identified on the checklist to verify your eligibility as a PPP Applicant. Click here to obtain/download a copy of the applicable PPP Self-Certification Checklist (DD3145-1 through DD3145-4, select the appropriate checklist for your claimed preference). To determine the applicable PPP Self-Certification Checklist required to substantiate the eligibilities you are claiming, refer to the AF Civilian Employment Eligibility Guide located in the Required Documents section of this vacancy announcement.

Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.

Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here .

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