TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This position is assigned within Headquarters U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), located in Doral, Florida.

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Duties

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• Manage the Combatant Command (CCMD) Joint Frequency Management Office (JFMO) to coordinate electromagnetic spectrum allocations, frequency selections, and supportability reviews with military services, federal agencies.
• Plan satellite communications (SATCOM) and Global Broadcast System (GBS) resources supporting real-world operations, contingencies, and joint exercises.
• Lead the Joint Spectrum Interference Resolution (JSIR) Program in accordance with Joint Staff directives maintaining reports of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI), and directing on-site spectrum surveys at installation levels.
• Develop critical joint communications policy directives, SOPs, and Joint Operational Plans (OPLANs/CONPLANs) participating as a key communications planner in Operational/Joint Planning Groups (OPG/JPG) to design command architectures.
• Serve as an action officer delivering mission-critical briefings, operational documentation, and training operations to provide crisis response planning and support, while maintaining situational awareness of command-wide military operations.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance based on a single-scope background investigation (SSBI) with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
• This position is subject to a pre-employment drug screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion
  and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
• Incumbent of this position is required to travel for duty (TOY) up to 10% of the time and must be able to obtain a valid U.S. passport.
• Incumbent of this position must be able to work nights, weekends, and holidays in response to contingencies and other requirements as directed.
• Incumbent of the position must be able to perform shift work in response to contingencies and other requirements as directed.
• Incumbent of this position must be willing to travel on military and commercial aircraft.
• Incumbent of this position is required to participate in the DoD/DA Immunization program, to include live vaccinations as required by DoD/DA policy, if deployed in the AOR.
• Must be certified in spectrum management courses: Interservice Radio Frequency Management School (IRFMS), U.S. Army Spectrum Management Course, U.S. Navy Fleet Spectrum Manager (FSM) Course and U.S. Airforce Spectrum Manager Course.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) planning joint electromagnetic spectrum operations and frequency allocations, to include performing complex engineering calculations to select and deconflict operating frequencies; 2) managing and executing satellite communications resource allocations, and utilizing specialized database management tools; 3) analyzing complex electromagnetic and radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) in accordance with Joint Staff directives, to include directing the Joint Spectrum Interference Resolution (JSIR) program; 4) evaluating joint telecommunications policies, standard operating procedures, and communications operational and contingency plans to ensure compliance with national, international, and Department of Defense (DoD) regulatory frameworks. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

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

• 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.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• 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 an Information Technology / Cyber Management Career Field position.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit for more information.
• 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.

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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