LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

About the role

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The primary purpose of this position is to provide a developmental experience designated to broaden the skills and/or enhance the leadership perspective of an identified high potential manager/executive candidate; it is not a continuing position and assignment duration is NTE 36 months.

What you will do

• Department of the Air Force (DAF) Set the Theater Program prepositioning strategy based on the planning, programming, and budget guidance to facilitate the identification and determination of alternative ways to achieve the best mix of equipment and support attainable, within fiscal constraints, for theater actions supporting the National Defense Strategy.
• Develops integration strategies to identify, coordinate, synchronize, and prioritize the Set the Theater Program requirements.
• Aligns resources, develops strategic placement and sustainment strategies in support of the Agile Combat Employment (ACE) Tasking Order (TASKORD).
• Coordinates and aligns execution of resources programmed for the purpose of the Set the Theater Program from a capability perspective vice individual commodity.
• Integrates across independent organizations and functions for logistics, acquisition, storage, and sustainment processes.
• Duty 2: Leads study teams and working groups to identify the equity and actions for Enterprise Strategy and lines of effort directed by the SecAF, CSAF, AF/A4, and/or AFMC.
• Plans, organizes, and directs complex study work and negotiates effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations, where the proposals involve substantial agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures, or may be in conflict with the desires of the activity studied.
• Organizes teams to develop milestones and goals driving required analysis to provide solutions and options for leadership consideration and approval.
• Evaluates reports by analyzing facts and performing appropriate research and prepares detailed responses.
• Duty 3: Prepares and presents high level reports and briefings of conclusions; many being highly subjective and not readily susceptible to verification until actual operational situations are encountered.
• Initiates studies, reports, responses to queries, justifications and background papers on the technical aspects of areas of expertise and assignment.
• Represents the organization on working groups, steering groups, or other meetings, conferences, seminars, etc. May chair such groups or meetings when the meeting is in the incumbent's area of assignment.
• Duty 4: Maintains continuous liaison with other DAF, OSD, Joint Staff, other DoD offices, and across MAJCOMs to ensure informed decision-making by senior DAF leadership.
• Identifies key results of studies, analyses, and evaluations to counterpart agencies to share experiences, resolve controversial matters, and thereby improve overall defense level planning in areas of assignment.
• Promotes interchange of information on requirements, capabilities, deficiencies, and technology applications in the area of specialization.
• Influences cross-functional and cross- organizational teams to advocate for support, align workload, and provide clear and consistent messaging for all project elements.

Education

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.

How you will be evaluated

Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

Your responses to the questionnaire may be compared to the documents you submit. The documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "insufficient information" and you will not receive further consideration for this job.

Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further. APPRAISALS/AWARDS: Hiring Managers use objective methods and consider previous performance appraisals and awards in the selection process. Current Federal Civilian employees should list any relevant performance related rating and/or awards in your resume.

Documents you must provide

• The following documents are required and must be provided with your application.
• Applicants who do not submit required documentation to determine eligibility and qualifications will be eliminated from consideration.
• Other documents may be required based on the eligibility/eligibilities you are claiming.
• Click here to view the AF Civilian Employment Eligibility Guide and the required documents you must submit to substantiate the eligibilities you are claiming.
• Online Application: Questionnaire Resume: Your resume 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 is illegible/unreadable.
• Additional information on resume requirements can be located under "How To Apply".
• Transcripts/Registration/License: If qualifying on education/position requires education, you must submit copies of your transcripts and if required for the position, submit an active, current registration/license.
• Current or Former Federal Civilian Employees (includes current Air Force employees): You must submit a legible copy of your most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, AND a SF-50 reflecting the highest grade held if different from your recent SF-50.
• The SF-50, block 24 must contain "1" or "2" AND block 34 must be a "1".
• Employees eligible under an OPM approved interchange agreement, block 34 may contain a "1" or "2".
• Promotion Consideration: If you wish to be considered as a promotion candidate and your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you meet the one-year time-in-grade requirements.
• You will need to provide additional SF-50s which clearly demonstrates you meet the time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within-Grade, Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an effective date more than one year old).
• OPTIONAL DOCUMENTS: Performance Appraisals for Current Federal Civilian Employees - Most recent performance appraisals (dated within last 3 years) showing the official rating of record, signed by a supervisor, or statement why the performance appraisal is unavailable.
• Awards for Current Federal Civilian employees - List any awards received within the last 3 years on the resume.
• Note: Applicant must not submit award Notification of Personnel Actions (SF50s).

What to expect next

Once your application package is received an acknowledgement email will be sent. If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your application.Your application package will be used to determine your eligibility and qualifications for consideration.

If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your application will receive no further consideration. To check the status of your application or return to a previous or incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account, select My Applications, and click on the more information link under the application status for this position.

If you do not provide an email address, you are responsible for checking status updates and notifications in USAJOBS. Hard copy notifications will not be sent to you.

Additional information

PCS restrictions: An employee selected to make a PCS to a Career Broadening assignment is restricted from making a second PCS for 12 months Defense National Relocation Program may or may not be Authorized Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have direct deposit.

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