The United States Space Force (USSF) at MOD Oakhanger, Bordon, UK is searching for a TCS Oakhanger Site Director to support the 22 SOPS (NH-0301-03, GS 12/13 equivalent).
Description:
Are you ready to take the helm of a critical international site that is essential to global space and cyberspace operations? As our Site Director in the United Kingdom, you will be more than a manager; you will be a diplomat, a strategist, and the driving force behind our mission's success. Your day-to-day responsibilities will be dynamic and impactful:
Lead the Mission: You will provide the vision and strategic direction for all site operations, ensuring your team and partners are aligned to achieve excellence in a high-stakes environment.
Drive Technical Excellence: You'll oversee sophisticated satellite and communications systems, guiding modernization efforts and resolving complex operational challenges to keep our capabilities at the cutting edge.
Build Global Partnerships: Act as the primary U.S. representative on-site, fostering strong relationships with our UK counterparts, managing international agreements, and ensuring seamless collaboration.
Ensure Performance: You will manage and evaluate the performance of key contracts, guaranteeing that our partners meet rigorous standards and deliver on critical mission objectives.
Shape the Future: You'll be a key voice in strategic planning, from developing long-range budgets to advising senior leadership on the future of space operations.
If you are a leader who thrives on mission-critical responsibility and wants to make a tangible impact on a global scale, we want to hear from you.
Ideal Candidate:
We are seeking a visionary leader and strategic thinker to join us as a Site Director for a uniqe Satellite Control Network site in Oakhanger, UK. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in technical operations management, program leadership, and stakeholder relations, preferably within a complex, technology-focused environment like telecommunications, aerospace, or a related industry. Candidate should be a natural problem-solver, adept at navigating both technical challenges and intricate organizational landscapes. Your experience demonstrates a strong ability to manage contracts, oversee budgets, and lead multi-disciplinary teams, including contractors and international partners. Should possess exceptional communication skills, with a proven track record of building coalitions, negotiating agreements, and providing executive-level counsel. A degree in business, management, engineering, or a related field is highly desirable. This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance, so U.S. citizenship is required.
Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Broad knowledge of Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, Air Force and Space Force instructions, policies, and procedures relating to operations, maintenance, and management of operational systems. Also extensive knowledge of SCN operations and broad knowledge of space enterprise operations to include Satellite C2 and technical communications control standards.
2. Knowledge of acquisition planning and contracting methodologies sufficient to provide a critical analysis with a recommended course of action on a wide variety of contractual matters. 3. Ability to collaborate at appropriate levels with organizations both inside and outside Delta, FIELDCOM, Air Force/Space Force, DoD and its agencies, the Federal Government, and international partners.
4. Ability to research, analyze, interpret and apply rules, regulations and procedures in a variety of situations and recommend timely and economical solutions.
5. Ability to encourage new ideas and innovations; manage human, financial and information resources strategically and build coalitions to achieve common goals.
6. Ability to persuade others to accept recommendations, work toward an agreement, and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions.
7. Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships and to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
8. 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.
9. Ability to identify problems and use sound judgment and decisions to generate and evaluate alternatives and make recommendations
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
PCS is authorized and may be made available. Incentive is not authorized.
This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
This position is designated as a Testing Designated Position (TDP) under the Air Force Civilian Drug Testing Program.
Emergency Essential (EE): The duty of the employee is to provide immediate and continuing support for combat operations or to support maintenance and repair of combat essential systems of the armed forces.
This is a Mission Essential (ME) position performing a Mission Critical Function (MCF) which must continue uninterrupted after the occurrence of an emergency and continued through full resumption of all functions.
Employee must within 30-days of assuming this position and by 31 October annually thereafter, file an OGE-450, “Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
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.
Additional information
Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information.
Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here.
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.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:
Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:
Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
Job title
Detailed duties and accomplishments
Employer's name and address
Supervisor's name and phone number
Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
Hours per week
Salary, if applicable
Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses
College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
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.
Do not email applications. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here.
PLEASE NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. You may verify your documents have been processed with your application package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:
Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
Job title
Detailed duties and accomplishments
Employer's name and address
Supervisor's name and phone number
Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
Hours per week
Salary, if applicable
Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses
College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
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.
Do not email applications. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here.
PLEASE NOTE: It is the applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. You may verify your documents have been processed with your application package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan.
