Strategic Workforce Acceleration Team (Detail)

Duties

One-year detail, executed in 120-day non-reimbursable increments.

Team Mission: The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Civilian Personnel Policy (DASW(CPP)) architects the strategic plans, policies, and programs essential to optimizing the DoW's civilian workforce and driving mission readiness. Seasoned professionals selected for this opportunity will integrate into the SWAT within the DASW(CPP) Talent Management and Strategic Initiatives (TMSI) or Workforce Governance & Integration portfolios. Operating in a high-tempo, high-visibility, and results-driven executive environment, these detailees will spearhead complex, enterprise-wide reforms that span multiple mission sets, statutory authorities, and organizational boundaries.

Assignment Description: Detailees will orchestrate high-priority policy, process, talent acquisition and workforce transformation portfolios, leading cross-functional efforts from ideation to enterprise scaling. Leaders will blend strategic project management, policy expertise, and human capital innovation to modernize recruitment frameworks, compress hiring timelines, and institutionalize systemic workforce solutions.

Focus Areas & Programmatic Portfolios:

• Civilian Policy Acceleration: Streamlining regulatory pathways, removing statutory bottlenecks, and implementing responsive human capital policies.
• Time-to-Hire Tiger Teams: Leading rapid-response interventions and deploying strategies and solutions to drastically compress hiring cycles.
• Talent Management Innovations: Architecting modern sourcing, employer branding, and engineered onboarding-to-retention pipelines.
• Institutionalizing Strategic Priorities: Aligning disparate agency human capital pilots into enduring enterprise-wide operational standards.
• Bolstering Organic & Defense Industrial Bases: Deploying tailored acquisition strategies to secure specialized technical, STEM, and trades talent essential to national readiness.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/Home/Registration)
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment
• Required to participate in the direct deposit program
• This position is subject to pre-employment and random drug testing
• This position is subject to the DoD Priority Placement Program

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the requirements described below.

Ideal candidates will possess a robust skill set, demonstrating capability across the following:

• Mastery in forging strategic partnerships across complex, multi-organizational environments. Candidates must act as consultative leaders who translate the strategic goals of the Administration and the Secretary of War into tactical execution, encompassing robust communications strategies and proactive industry engagement.
• A proven track record of challenging conventional paradigms and taking calculated risks to drive enterprise transformation. This includes applying agile methodologies to design, incubate, and implement cutting-edge programs, as well as leveraging IT modernization principles to champion automated, technology-enabled solutions.
• Advanced capability in managing a high-stakes, Department-facing project portfolio. Leaders must possess the agility to successfully navigate shifting constraints, resource limitations, and high-urgency requirements to deliver measurable mission outcomes.

Successful candidates must demonstrate technical mastery in the following areas:

• Enterprise Human Capital Architecture & Regulatory Mastery: Expert-level command of complex federal human resources laws, regulations, and principles.
• High Demand/Low Density (HD/LD) Policy Development & Cross-Functional Execution: Proven capability to translate complex HR operations and personnel processing into actionable, enterprise-wide policy.

Education

Education cannot be substituted for experience.

Additional information

Detailees will acquire hands-on experience driving transformation. Acting as a strategic accelerator for executive readiness, this detail allows participants to explicitly master key SES competencies:

• Building Coalitions
• Leading People and Leading Change
• Business Acumen and Results Driven

Occupations and job series eligible for consideration:

• 0201 Human Resources Management
• 0343 Management and Program Analysis
• 0340 Program Management