Air and Missile Defense Planner - Wiesbaden

Company Name: Defense Dept
Location: Germany

Responsibilities

• Conduct Air Missile Defense (AMD) planning with the objective of improving
  

employment of equipment, weapons, tactics and strategy, doctrine, training
and facilities to achieve mission accomplishment.

• Research and integrate analytical expertise to integrate Headquarters US
  

Army Europe (USAREUR) regional strategies into the operational planning and
crisis action planning processes.

• Participate in Wargaming planning at multiple levels, analyze results and
  

develop lessons learned

• Develop, assess and validate deployment and employment of Air Missile
  

Defense equipment and personnel.

• Prepare Operational Orders.
  

Travel Required
Occasional travel - Travel in Temporary Duty Status (TDY) of up to 15% of
the time may be required.
Supervisory status
No
Promotion Potential
None
Help Help

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Two year trial/probationary period may be required.
• 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.
• Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program
  

requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.

• Must be able to satisfy the requirements of the 26JUL12 DODI 1400.25 V1230,
  

DoD Civilian Personnel Management System: Employment in Foreign Areas and
Employee Return Rights. Visit
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140025v1230.pdf.

• Incumbent must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Clearance.
• A pre-employment Drug Test and periodic testing thereafter will be
  

required.

• Travel in Temporary Duty Status (TDY) of up to 15% of the time may be
  

required.

• This position has been designated as Key.
  

Qualifications

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.

• 30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans
• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying to OCONUS Positions
• Current Permanent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base
  

Civilian Personnel Workforce

• Excepted Service Overseas Family Member Appointment
• Family Member Preference (FMP) for Overseas Employment
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Military Spouse Preference (MSP) for Overseas Employment
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Reinstatement
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
  

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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes

• participating in the development of air and missile defense concepts; 2)
  

applying high-level DoD publications and directives relating to current and
future AMD capabilities; and 3) analyzing missile defense exercises,
developing doctrinal solutions and recommendations.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at
the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the

Following Areas

• Decision Making
• Planning and Evaluating
• Problem Solving
• Teamwork
• Writing
  

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS)
position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at
the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).
Education
Additional information

• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible
  

for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.

• Locality pay does not apply in the overseas area.
• If an employee brings a child to an overseas location and that child is
  

entitled to attend a DoD school on a space-required basis in accordance
with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, the DoDEA and the Military Department
responsible for providing related services will ensure that the child, if
eligible for special education, receives a free appropriate public
education, including related services pursuant to DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM
1342.12.

• If an employee brings an infant or toddler (up to 3 years of age) to an
  

overseas location, and that infant or toddler is entitled to attend the
DoDEA on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation
1342.13, then the Military Department responsible for EIS will provide the
infant or toddler with the required EIS in accordance with the eligibility
criteria consistent with DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM 1342.12.

• Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the
  

overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such
care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical
and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable
basis only.

• Pay retention may be offered to successful applicants for positions at
  

overseas locations. For this provision to apply to employees already
overseas, the selected individual would have to require a permanent change
of station move and would have to be selected as a result of a recruitment
effort that had been extended outside of the overseas command involved.

• Selectees may receive certain foreign area benefits such as: Living
  

Quarters Allowance (LQA) or government quarters, home leave, etc. Selectees
will have their eligibility for foreign area benefits determined at the
time of hire in accordance with Department of State Standardized Regulation
(DSSR) and DoDI 1400.25 volume 1250.

• For positions in a foreign country, that country's laws or international
  

agreements may have a direct impact on the ability of an employee's same
sex domestic partner or spouse to accompany the employee and receive
certain benefits. If you believe you may be affected by these laws and
agreements, you should familiarize yourself with relevant information
before applying for or accepting this position.

• This is a Career Program (CP) 51 - General Administration and Support -
  

position.

• The initial length of this overseas tour is 36 months.
• 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
https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FTR%20Bulletin%2018_05%20Relocation%20Allowances_0.pdf
for more information.

• If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have
  

in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an
Alternate Application.

• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is authorized, subject
  

to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the

Qualifications Above.

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package
(resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be
used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on
this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your résumé and
supporting documentation will be compared against your responses to the
assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If, after
reviewing your résumé and/or supporting documentation, a determination is
made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may
lose consideration for this position. Please follow all instructions
carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
The selecting official has requested a competitive and noncompetitive
candidate list for this vacancy. If you are eligible for the noncompetitive
list, you will be evaluated on basic and/or minimum qualifications, as
applicable. While required to answer the assessment questions,
non-competitive candidates will not be evaluated against the competitive
rating and ranking criteria. The selecting official may select from any of
the candidate lists.
You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in
your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the
selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting
documentation.
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.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a
Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified
you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP
consideration, you may receive selection priority for this position. To
receive selection priority, you must: (1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria

• be rated well-qualified for the position and; (3) submit the
  

appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. To be
considered well-qualified and receive selection priority applicants must
satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a score
of 90 or above. Additional information about the program is on OPM's Career
Transition Resources website.
Background checks and security clearance
Security clearance
Top Secret
Drug test required
Yes
Help Help
Required Documents
The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you
are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current
permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc). Please
review the following links to see which documents you need to provide to
prove your eligibility to apply: Applicant Merit Checklist (Outside the
Continental United States) and Proof of Eligibility.
As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your
responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your
eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be
marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be
considered any further.

• Your resume:
• Your resume may be submitted in any format and must support the specialized
  

experience described in this announcement.

• If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or
  

content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification
determinations and you may not be considered for this vacancy.

• For qualifications determinations your resume must contain hours worked per
  

week and the dates of employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to
month/year or month/year to present). If your resume does not contain this
information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you may not
receive consideration for this position.

• For additional information see: What to include in your resume.
• Other supporting documents:
• Cover Letter, optional
• Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable
• Proof of Eligibility to Apply: Your application must include the documents
  

which prove you are eligible to apply for the vacancy. The Proof of
Eligibility document describes authorities commonly used in merit promotion
recruitment and what document(s) are required to prove you meet the
requirements of the authority. You must meet the requirements of at least
one of the authorities listed in the Who May Apply section above to receive
further consideration.

• Time-in-grade documentation: If you are applying for a higher grade and
  

your SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly
demonstrate you meet the one year time-in-grade requirement so you will
need to provide an SF-50 which clearly demonstrates you meet the
time-in-grade requirements (examples of appropriate SF-50s include
Promotions, Within-grade Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s with an
effective date more than one year old).
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include
supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office.
Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage
certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you.
You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal
information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide
an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm
your eligibility.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by
the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards

Qualifications. Therefore, Provide Only The Attendance And/or Degrees From

schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this
vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the
overall rating.

• Seniority level

  Entry level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  ManagementManufacturing

• Industries

  Nonprofit Organization ManagementGovernment AdministrationHospital & Health Care