HR Plans and Operations

About the role

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What you will do

• The United States Space Force (USSF) Headquarters (HQ) at the Pentagon is searching for a Human Resources Plans and Operations Specialist (NH-0201-04, GS 14/15 equivalent).
• Description: Shape the future of United States Space Force (USSF) human capital as a Strategic Human Resources (HR) Plans and Operations Lead.
• Serving in this senior role, you will drive the development and implementation of comprehensive human capital strategies directly aligned with the USSF national security mission.
• In this role, you will lead efforts to organize, train, and equip our space forces by synchronizing the manpower, finance, and HR "triad" to design a fully funded, mission-ready enterprise.
• Rather than managing routine transactions, you will leverage advanced workforce analytics to identify trends and articulate key strategic findings directly to senior military and civilian executives, ensuring our civilian workforce is postured for future mission-critical environments.
• Major Duties & Responsibilities As an expert you will be responsible for: Strategic Planning & Workforce Analysis (Critical): Served as the principal USSF representative on joint-agency working groups, leveraging advanced workforce analytics to diagnose talent deficits and clearly articulating critical strategic findings to senior command leaders to align enterprise-wide recruitment policies.
• Lead, initiate, and direct complex human capital programs, developing long-range goals and objectives that integrate Space Force mission requirements with enterprise-level human capital objectives.
• Conduct comprehensive research and data analysis to identify workforce trends, analytic gaps, and opportunities.
• You will provide expert analysis and data-driven recommendations to leadership to inform strategic workforce planning and resource/investment decisions.
• Design and implement the USSF Annual Staffing Plan, program evaluation, and process improvement initiatives to enhance organizational effectiveness and eliminate barriers to mission accomplishments.
• Stakeholder Management (Critical): Establish and maintain productive working relationships with senior officials internal and external, along with stakeholders across SECAF, OCSO, VCSO, DoD, OPM, and civilian institutions to promote mission objectives.
• Directly communicate on strategic human capital matters, including senior recruitment, talent management, and hiring and retention planning.
• Work across human capital functions to develop and implement complex and high-level strategies and programs for the agency.
• Enterprise Strategy Formulation & Mission Assessment (Critical): Develop near/mid/long-term strategy documents, formal policies, and executive-level memoranda that provide clear guidance to needs/requirements and resource planning staff.
• Performs strategic communication to advocate for the agency, preparing and delivering high-impact presentations on USSF executive human resource management to all levels of the USSF, USAF, and DoW.
• Leveraged cross-functional analytics to integrate manpower authorizations, budget programming, and HR metrics, translating complex resource data into a fully funded, strategically postured workforce design.
• The ideal candidate is a visionary leader and strategic advisor who operates at the intersection of enterprise strategy, analytics, and resource management.
• They possess a proven ability to synchronize the resource 'triad'-harmonizing manpower authorizations, fiscal programming constraints, and human resource execution-to design and staff a mission-ready workforce.
• Candidate possesses the analytical acumen to interpret complex datasets and the communication mastery to articulate high-impact strategic narratives to senior military and civilian executives (General Officer/SES).
• Has the ability to maintain professional stature and establish collaborative partnerships to institutionalize forward-looking talent management solutions.
• Experience with Alternative Personnel Systems (such as AcqDemo) is strongly preferred.

How you will be evaluated

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled.

Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted.

If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Documents you must provide

• You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts.
• You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable.
• Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume.
• If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy.
• Your resume must provide: Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

What to expect next

For additional information on other USSF direct hire opportunities visit the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on LinkedIn.

Additional information

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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.