Management Support Specialist

Management Support Specialist

This National Guard position is for an Management Support Specialist, Position Description Number D2401000 and is part of the 158th Mission Support Group of the Vermont Air National Guard. The primary purpose of the position is an Air Guard Title 32 Technician position in the Group Commander's Support Staff (CSS). This position is also advertised as a Title 5 vacancy announcement under VT-12755206-AF-25-22.

Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, and oversees the full complement of activities within the Group Commander's Support Staff (CSS). Manages personnel, unit training and administrative programs management as well as continuous improvement initiatives within the CSS. Oversees Group programs to facilitate the Group and squadron commander's vision.
• Plans, organizes, and executes all Group information management and personnel activities. Oversees the preparation, maintenance, and disposition of required administrative reports and other correspondence.
• Manages training programs for administration and personnel in accordance with established command guidelines. Acquires adequate training from agencies necessary to discuss personal and professional development issues with assigned personnel. Ensures enlisted training is being conducted in accordance with Career Field Education and Training Plan requirements.
• Serves as the Group point of contact and liaison with the servicing Force Support Squadron on personnel and manpower actions. Serves as central point of contact to provide authoritative explanations of personnel and/or manpower related requirements, regulations, and procedures and to assist in resolving operational problems involving all functional areas of personnel. Manages personnel resource requirements.
• Prepares and delivers presentations such as briefings, training sessions, and consultations with serviced Commander(s), other staff agencies and functional areas to secure cooperation, resolve controversial matters and convey information.
• Participates in special studies and projects relating to planning, coordinating, and analyzing the effectiveness/efficiency of the Group CSS in meeting Air Force Administration program goals. Assists managers in strategic planning and in identifying immediate and long-range program/training and technology needs.
• Develops CSS consolidated resource plan for staff support to include budget, equipment, computers, supplies and required services. Receives data call, reviews CSS historical data submissions to determine trends in spending and forecast annual funding needs.
• Exercises limited supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management. Selects or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and equal employment opportunity and diversity objectives. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

National Guard Membership is Required:

This is a Title 32 excepted service position that requires membership in the Vermont Air National Guard. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the Vermont Air National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a Vermont Air National Guard recruiter at (802) 660-8054 prior to applying for this position.

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Minimum Qualification Requirements:

Specialized Experience: GS-07: Must have at least 12 months experience, 1 year specialized experience, education or training equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Applicants must have experience, education or training in any position that required compiling reports, letters, memoranda, etc., and required person-to-person contacts to convey information. Applicants must have progressively responsible experience which demonstrates the ability to provide technical guidance and assistance in the type of work or in comparable work of the position to be filled. Experience interpreting regulations, policies or law and providing guidance.

Specialized Experience: GS-09: Must have at least 24 months experience, 1-year specialized experience, education or training equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Applicants must have experience providing technical guidance and assistance in the type of work or in comparable work of the position to be filled. Applicants must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of administrative procedures and practices of management. Experience developing administrative procedures.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics:

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Foreign Education:

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