THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (PLCYPLN), Position Description Number D2467P01 and is part of the ID G6 Info Systems, National Guard. THIS POSITION IS BACKFILLING A TECHNICIAN WHO IS ABSENT. THIS TEMPORARY PROMOTION CANNOT EXCEED FIVE YEARS. THIS POSITION MAY BECOME A PERMANENT PROMOTION OR REASSIGNMENT IF POSITION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
1. Supervisor and senior team lead for mission command division. Supervises and manages the MC Personnel who support mission command systems, supporting and enhancing mission command.
Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, difficulty of assignments, and the capabilities of employees; develops performance standards and rates employees; interviews and selects candidates for subordinate positions; recommends hiring, promotion, or reassignments; takes disciplinary measures; identifies developmental and training needs of employees; provides and/or arranges for needed development and training.
Manages, tracks, and reports career needs of Signal, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare personnel and makes recommendations on assignments. Performs a full range of personnel management actions: coordinates work plans and schedules, furnishes technical and administrative guidance, and resolves work problems. Identifies professional development needs, employee schedules and approves leave, and initiates appropriate awards. 2. Reporting and visibility.
Maintain effective rapport with subordinate unit G6/S6 personnel, and agency representatives, ensuring unified efforts in communication support. Maintains reports from all MC system support personnel and keeps state level reporting metrics current and relevant to readiness goals. Utilizes personnel to develop relevant reports and ensures effective utilization of all network management, monitoring, reporting systems, and MC systems.
Attends readiness briefings, Unit Status Reporting briefs, and other meetings to ensure a synch on communication readiness and reporting. Ensure team members maintain continuous surveillance of the overall network(s) operation. Prepares briefings and specialized reports as required. 3. Supports readiness through interactions with both supported units and supporting agencies. Requests and receives requirements from supported units.
Serves as a conduit of support with proper priority, funding, and tracking mechanisms. Provides status reports on requests to both supported units and management chains. Keeps maintenance of the systems as current as applicable to system guidelines and standards. Monitors PMCS records of units to ensure preventive maintenance is being conducted and documented.
Coordinates with other MC support elements available in the organization (state) and evaluates processes to ensure support paths are clear and that gaps in service are addressed. Establishes maintenance relationships, agreements, and SOPs as required to ensure readiness gaps do not develop. 4. Subject Matter Expertise and currency. Provides or coordinates training to subordinate personnel to maintain their proficiency on systems specific to the supported units.
Works with PMs, PEO's, and associated support teams to establish training standards on each system and seeks the necessary skill building training, support needs, and for current lessons learned on tactics, techniques, and procedures; system usage and maintenance improvement. Tracks the training and certification levels on systems that require specialized training levels. Performs briefings to senior graded personnel on new equipment and capabilities.
Reports on system status and pursues solutions on deficient units to ensure the command is aware of the training requirement. Reviews services annually to ensure they align with C4IM or future service models as dictated by regulation or policy. Performs other duties as assigned.
Degree in computer science, engineering, information science, information systems management, mathematics, operations research, statistics, or technology management or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems or networks.
For GS-13 with no specialized experience, the education level must be Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral degree, OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. You MUST provide official transcripts to support your Educational claims.
This position is with Army National Guard Units, Department of the Army.
The posted pay range is $106437 – $138370/yr.
This position requires a Secret security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-10-19.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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