Unit Deployment Manager

Air Force Special Operations Command • Hurlburt Field, FL

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The primary purpose of this position is to function as the Unit Deployment Manager ensuring assigned personnel are qualified and ready to meet Air Expeditionary Force requirements. This role involves planning, organizing, and overseeing all unit-level deployment activities, performing analysis, and establishing metrics and systems to assess efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory procedures. The Unit Deployment Manager provides technical guidance and recommendations to senior leadership regarding the unit deployment program and ensures personnel readiness for wartime and peacetime mobility taskings by scheduling and tracking unit deployment training.

Requirements

• 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.
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
• 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.
• The incumbent will be required to complete mandatory UDM training to include IDS/LOGMOD training, AEF Reporting Tool (ART) training, and Pallet Build-Up/Hazardous Cargo Preparation training.
• Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
• This position may be designated mission essential based on local conditions Mission essential personnel report for duty at normal times when the base is closed or delayed reporting, and remain on duty during phased or early release.
• Incumbent may be required to work other than normal duty hours to include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays.
• Shift work and emergency overtime may be required.
• One (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-07, or equivalent in other pay systems.
• Knowledge of methods, procedures, and skills in evaluating and performing deployment operations to identify and meet deployment requirements.
• Knowledge of a wide range of federal and agency deployment/mobilization concepts, principles, practices, procedures, regulations, and laws applicable to the full range of UDM management responsibilities.
• Knowledge of established safety and occupational health principles, practices, procedures, laws, and regulations related to the safety program, risk assessment methods, and techniques for evaluating occupational safety and health risks.
• Knowledge of federal planning policy and guidance to include publications applicable to the functional area.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and translate complex information, make appropriate judgments, and evaluate options concerning unit readiness.
• Ability to recognize the inter-relationships of various aspects of operating programs to integrate and analyze information to evaluate overall program status.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.
• LL.B. or J.D., if related.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, and oversees all unit level deployment activities.
• Performs analysis activities.
• Establishes metric and system analysis systems for unit and higher-level management to assess the efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory procedures.
• Provides technical guidance and recommendations to senior leadership regarding unit deployment program.
• Ensures personnel readiness.
• Ensures the unit is ready to meet wartime and peacetime mobility taskings by scheduling and tracking unit deployment training.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.

What This Job Offers

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