Quality Assurance Specialist

Summary

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. This is an unaccompanied position with an initial overseas tour of 12 months with possible extensions for a total of 5 years.

Duties

• Serves as the battalion Quality Assurance Specialist and as technical authority, responsible for overseeing all support service contract management, associated resource management program and issues.
• Initiates, plans, develops, implements, provides Technical Monitor (TM) training and executes internal plans, policies and procedures necessary to accomplish effective quality assurance of assigned contracts.
• Responsible for development, implementation, and execution of internal plans, policies and procedures necessary to accomplish effective and unbiased quality assurance surveillance of assigned contracts.
• Participates in writing/revising of Performance Work Statement, Performance Requirement Summary, Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans, Sole Source Justification, Independent Cost Estimate, Service Contract Approval, and conduct Market Research.
• Advise, assist, and provide guidance concerning maintenance and quality assurance implementation procedures and schedules, existing problems and their resolution, as well as forthcoming developments and requirements.

Qualifications

CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT. YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS". This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure. 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. Current Civilian Employees of the Organization Applying to Cyber Excepted Service (CES) Positions **Organization is defined as current, permanent ARCYBER/NETCOM employees only. 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. Basic Requirement for Quality Assurance Specialist: Applicant must have one year of directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled. Qualifying experience would be demonstrated by overseeing a service contract management or served as an appointed Contracting Officers Representative (COR); providing contractor surveillance and performance monitoring; reviewing work methods and procedures to identify processes for reducing operating costs and/or increase efficiency; and utilizing automated systems (I.e. Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and Joint Appointment Module (JAM) applications) while overseeing the quality assurance program.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.