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Chief, Human Capital Operations, SWAC

Department of the Air Force
United States Space Force Forces
United States Space Force / Space Warfighting Analysis Center

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Overview

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Accepting applications
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Remote job
No
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Salary
$102,415 - $158,322 per year
Pay scale & grade
NH 3
Promotion potential
None
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupations and job series
Supervisory status
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Competitive Service
Represented by a union
No
Drug test
Yes
Security clearance
Sensitive Compartmented Information
Position sensitivity and risk
Special-Sensitive (SS)/High Risk
Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance. The type depends on the job.
Background check type
Financial disclosure required
No
Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests.
Announcement number
SF-FY27-6F-NH-0201-03-SPLSH
Control number
888730600

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The United States Space Force (USSF) in Chantilly, VA is searching for a Chief for Human Capital Operations to support the SWAC (NH-0201-03, GS-12/13 equivalent).

Description:
As the Chief of Human Capital Operations, you will be at the forefront of our personnel strategy. You will: Lead, mentor, and empower a dedicated team of HR specialists. Serve as the key advisor to senior leadership on all aspects of human capital, including hiring, pay-setting, staffing, and classification under the AcqDemo system. Analyze complex workforce data to identify trends, forecast needs, and drive strategic decisions. Manage the full spectrum of personnel actions, from promotions and reassignments to military promotion boards. Collaborate with high-level stakeholders across the Department of Defense, Air Force, and Space Force to facilitate critical military and civilian personnel programs.

Ideal Candidate:
Expert knowledge of military and civilian human resources management, strategic planning, and personnel systems. Proven ability to lead complex, multi-faceted projects from conception to completion. Exceptional skill in customer relations, with a talent for assessing needs and resolving complex issues with tact and diplomacy. An innovative mindset with the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Outstanding written and oral communication skills, capable of building coalitions and maintaining key relationships. Must have a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. This position requires successful completion of a Counterintelligence (CI) scope polygraph examination. Subject to pre-employment and random drug testing. Position requires temporary duty (TDY) travel approximately 15 days per year.

Key Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of processes and procedures related to military and civilian human resources management and strategic planning activities needed to execute projects and/or studies within established financial and time constraints. Includes knowledge of Acquisition Demonstration personnel system.
2. Ability to encourage new ideas and innovations; manage human, financial and 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 organize work, set priorities, and determine resource requirements; determine goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinate with other organizations; monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes.
5. Ability to give oral presentations and communicate in writing Ability to maintain good working relations.
6. Ability to plan and execute complex, multi-faceted projects.
7 Ability to meet and deal with customers using a high degree of tact and diplomacy.
8. Ability to establish and maintain relationships with key individuals/groups outside immediate work unit.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Must be a U.S Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
  • May be required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
  • Eligible for situational teleworking only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "unscheduled telework".
  • May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
  • May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
  • This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
  • PCS / relocation funding is not authorized.
  • Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
  • Employee is in a designated position that requires consent and thereafter be subject to and successfully complete, an initial, periodic, and random counterintelligence (CI) scope polygraph examination as a condition of employment.
  • This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.

Qualifications

The 0201 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.

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.

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Agency contact information

US Space Force Enterprise Talent Management
Email
HQ.USSF.TalentAcquisition@spaceforce.mil
Address
USSF - United States Space Force Forces
1670 Space Force Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330
US

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