SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (PLCYPLN)

Job TitleSupervisor and Senior Team Lead for Mission Command DivisionThe role involves supervising and managing the mission command personnel who support mission command systems, supporting and enhancing mission command. The responsibilities include assigning work to subordinates based on priorities, difficulty of assignments, and the capabilities of employees; developing performance standards and rating employees; interviewing and selecting candidates for subordinate positions; recommending hiring, promotion, or reassignments; taking disciplinary measures; identifying developmental and training needs of employees; providing and/or arranging for needed development and training. The job also involves managing, tracking, and reporting career needs of Signal, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare personnel and making recommendations on assignments. It performs a full range of personnel management actions: coordinates work plans and schedules, furnishes technical and administrative guidance, and resolves work problems. The role identifies professional development needs, employee schedules and approves leave, and initiates appropriate awards.The job also requires maintaining effective rapport with subordinate unit G6/S6 personnel, and agency representatives, ensuring unified efforts in communication support. It involves maintaining reports from all MC system support personnel and keeping state level reporting metrics current and relevant to readiness goals. The role utilizes personnel to develop relevant reports and ensures effective utilization of all network management, monitoring, reporting systems, and MC systems. It attends readiness briefings, Unit Status Reporting briefs, and other meetings to ensure a synch on communication readiness and reporting. The job ensures team members maintain continuous surveillance of the overall network(s) operation and prepares briefings and specialized reports as required.The role supports readiness through interactions with both supported units and supporting agencies. It requests and receives requirements from supported units. The job serves as a conduit of support with proper priority, funding, and tracking mechanisms. It provides status reports on requests to both supported units and management chains. The role keeps maintenance of the systems as current as applicable to system guidelines and standards. It monitors PMCS records of units to ensure preventive maintenance is being conducted and documented. The job 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. It establishes maintenance relationships, agreements, and SOPs as required to ensure readiness gaps do not develop.The role provides or coordinates training to subordinate personnel to maintain their proficiency on systems specific to the supported units. It 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. The job tracks the training and certification levels on systems that require specialized training levels. It performs briefings to senior graded personnel on new equipment and capabilities. The role reports on system status and pursues solutions on deficient units to ensure the command is aware of the training requirement. It reviews services annually to ensure they align with C4IM or future service models as dictated by regulation or policy.