Senior Leader Management Specialist

Senior Leader Management Specialist

Department: Department of the Air Force

Location(s): Los Angeles County, California

Salary Range: $103316 - $159716 Per Year

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Major Duties:

• The United States Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California is searching for a Management and Program Specialist (NH-0301-03, GS 12/13 equivalent). Description: The Management and Program Specialist will lead and manage the full lifecycle of senior executive talent management activities, including oversight of SES, DISES, SL, HQE and Acquisition Leadership Positions. The role requires daily engagement with senior leadership to define and validate organizational needs, ensuring that all positions align with applicable classification and acquisition criteria, particularly SML/ML roles. Drafting, reviewing, and advising on position descriptions, ensuring alignment with agency missions, leadership competency models, and federal executive qualification standards. On a daily basis, will coordinate closely with HQ SF/S1LO to ensure compliance with Department of the Air Force senior executive policy and hiring guidance, and will liaison regularly with SAF/MRL to include developing, reviewing, and refining executive-level position descriptions, advising on organizational design, and supporting leadership planning to ensure the right leaders are placed in the right roles. Also collaborate with SAF/AQH for oversight and validation of acquisition leadership positions. They will be the subject matter expert on acquisition criteria and will ensure both positions and candidates meet all statutory and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree, experience at FLDCOM or Headquarters Air Force (HAF) experience with Senior Executives and talent management; experience working on a General Officer level staff. May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDYs. May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled basis. DoW HR experience, knowledge of MS Office and ability to produce executive quality deliverables. Knowledge of basic HR principles and practices. Excellent communicator (oral and written). Key Skills and Abilities: 1. Knowledge of processes and procedures to advise the SSC Commander on senior leader requirements. 2. Ability to encourage new ideas and innovations; manage human, information resources strategically and build coalitions to achieve common goals. 3. Skill in working with customers to assess needs, provide assistance, resolve problems, and satisfy expectations. 4. Ability to advise and assist management officials and personnel on general and specialized aspects of civilian personnel programs and to keep abreast of program changes resulting from initiatives of the DoW, OPM, and other appropriate authorities within DAF, USAF, and USSF. 5. Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships and to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. 6. Ability to organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements; determine goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinate with other organizations; monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes. 7. Ability to identify problems and use sound judgment and decisions to generate and evaluate alternatives and make recommendations. 8. Possess strong interpersonal and problem solving skills and the ability to communicate oral presentations where clarity, accuracy, and concise articulation are essential to recommend course of actions, provide advice and guidance to managers, and to ensure precise understanding of technical content.

Qualifications: The 0301 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

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Application Deadline: 2025-12-11