Unit Deployment Manager

Air Force Special Operations Command • Cannon AFB, NM

13d

About The Position

The Unit Deployment Manager plans, organizes, and oversees unit-level deployment activities, ensuring assigned personnel are qualified and ready to meet Air Expeditionary Force requirements. The role configures and maintains functional Unit Type Codes (UTCs) as postured by MAJCOM Functional Area Managers, using available unit assets, and performs analysis activities. It establishes metrics and system analysis processes to help unit and higher-level management assess efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory procedures. The manager provides technical guidance and recommendations to senior leadership, advises the commander on all aspects of unit deployment capabilities, and ensures personnel and unit readiness for wartime and peacetime mobility taskings through scheduling and tracking deployment training.

The incumbent must complete mandatory UDM training, including IDS/LOGMOD, AEF Reporting Tool (ART), and Pallet Build-Up/Hazardous Cargo Preparation training, and must obtain and maintain a Secret clearance. Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station. The position may be designated mission essential, and may require work outside normal duty hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, shift work, and emergency overtime.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Males must be registered for Selective Service.
• Complete mandatory UDM training, including IDS/LOGMOD, AEF Reporting Tool (ART), and Pallet Build-Up/Hazardous Cargo Preparation training.
• Obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Meet the GS-09 qualification requirements, including one year of specialized experience at the GS-07 level or equivalent; qualifying education; or a qualifying combination of education and experience.
• Specialized experience must demonstrate knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and precedents affecting deployment operations; management and organization principles and administrative practices; and administrative processes and documentation requirements for deployment readiness.
• Alternatively, qualifying education may include a master's or equivalent graduate degree, two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.B. or J.D. in a relevant field. Transcripts must be submitted when using education to qualify.
• Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable federal time-in-grade requirements; one year at GS-07 is required for the GS-09 level when TIG applies.
• Demonstrate knowledge of deployment operations, federal and agency deployment and mobilization concepts and regulations, occupational safety and health principles and regulations, and federal planning policy and guidance.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex information, make judgments and evaluate options concerning unit readiness, and integrate information to assess overall program status.
• Applicants using education to qualify must provide transcripts; foreign education must be shown to be equivalent to U.S. education.
• Work may require travel away from the normal duty station, and the incumbent may be required to work evenings, weekends, holidays, shifts, or emergency overtime.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and oversee all unit-level deployment activities.
• Configure and maintain functional Unit Type Codes (UTCs) as postured by MAJCOM Functional Area Managers, using available unit assets.
• Perform analysis activities and establish metrics and system analysis processes to assess efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory procedures.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations to senior leadership regarding the unit deployment program.
• Advise the commander on the direction, management, and operation of unit deployment capabilities.
• Ensure personnel readiness and prepare the unit to meet wartime and peacetime mobility taskings by scheduling and tracking unit deployment training.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package available to the employee and family; eligibility depends on position type.
• Authorized relocation (PCS) may be paid in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations and Air Force regulations.
• Childcare discounts may be available to eligible employees in direct childcare positions and other assigned CYP and FCC personnel.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level