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Summary

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at Fort Meade, Maryland.

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Duties

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• Coordinates with joint, interagency, and cross functional partners to synchronize capability development, resource planning, and policy efforts.
• Develops and delivers clear, senior level briefings, presentations, and training on capability, programmatic, and resource issues.
• Produces high quality written products-including reports, position papers, staff studies, and decision packages-to support leadership decision making.
• Provides expert capability analysis and validates requirements in accordance with the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS).
• Cyber Capabilities Integration and Development System (CCIDS), ensuring alignment with mission needs and strategic guidance.
• Leads Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) analysis and defends the USCYBERCOM Commander's program and budget submissions through direct engagement.
• Military Service components, Joint Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of War stakeholders.

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
• The incumbent may be recalled to duty, may be required to work other than normal duty hours, which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, and may be required to work overtime.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military and/or commercial aircraft
• The employee must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET SCI clearance as a condition of employment and must complete a counterintelligence scope polygraph exam
• This is a Drug Testing Designated Position. This position is covered by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program.
• The incumbent is required to sign a DA Form 5019-R (Condition of Employment for Certain Positions Identified as Critical Under the Drug Abuse Testing Program) .
• The incumbent must meet NSA personnel security requirements outlined in NSA/CSS Policy5-1.
• May be required to work overtime and other than normal duty hours which may include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays. Call back and emergency duty are regular requirements of this position.

Qualifications

Cyber Excepted Service positions are not subject to the two-page resume limit. Your full resume will need to be uploaded to your USAJobs profile using the document type "Other Documents".

Who May Apply:

Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement". If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Senior Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure.

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by: 1) Assessing instructions and doctrine to determine the changes needed to support the agency's position through the planning, budgeting, and execution process; 2) Assessing information such as geopolitical details, strategic shifts , or adversary capabilities in order to develop strategic programming and planning guidance; 3) Establishes and leads teams of subject matter experts as directed to assess, analyze and formulate recommendations for concepts of operation.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience aloneno substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Additional information

• If you are a current federal career/career-conditional employee, you will be placed on an excepted appointment.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a TOP SECRET security clearance.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a(n) Cyberspace Effects Career Field position.
• This position will have multiple vacancies.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.
• Advance in-hire rate may be authorized.
• Relocation/Recruitment incentive MAY BE authorized to highly qualified candidate.
• Advanced leave accrual may be authorized.
• Must sign a service agreement if incentive(s) is/are authorized.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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