SUPERVISORY ELECTRONICS ENGINEER

Summary

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below for IMPORTANT additional information. The primary purpose of this key career position (KCP) is to serve as a supervisor with responsibilities as the Chief, Risk Assessment and Authorization Branch, in providing planning, directing, organizing, and exercising control over nonsupervisory employees assigned to Risk Assessment and Authorization Branch within the 16 AF/A61 division.

Duties

• DUTY 1: Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of a branch within 16 AF/A61, ensuring that Air Force Intelligence Community (AF IC) cybersecurity risk assessment and authorization ventures comply with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. DUTY 2: Exercises 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 EEO and diversity objectives. DUTY 3: Represents AF IC and 16 AF/A6 to internal and external stakeholders on the status of cybersecurity risk assessment and authorization projects, functions and tasks. Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships within 16 AF, HQ ACC, MAJCOMs, Air Staff, ODNI, IC partners, National Agencies, and other DoD organizations. DUTY 4: Assists the AF CIISO and AF CIIO/AO for the AF IC Cybersecurity Program with a variety of installation and functional area organizations. Provides critical support to the Alternate CIISO and CIIO/AO with technical panels, working groups, and committees within IC and other government agencies and/or contractors to discuss plans and technical matters.

Qualifications

This is a GG-14 position in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). The GG-14 duties for the "Supervision/Management" work category are at the "Senior" work level and are equivalent to those at the GS-14 level. The selectee's salary will be set within the grade equivalent to a GS/GG grade based on the selectee's qualifications in relation to the job. In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific positions. BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: 0855 ELECTRONIC ENGINEER: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure, Written Test, Specified academic courses, or related curriculum. Click the following link to view occupational requirements for the Electronics Engineer position: 0855, Electronics Engineer Position In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Your resume must reflect the quality level of experience which demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for successful job performance required for this position. Examples of creditable experience include: knowledge of a wide range of concepts, principles, and practices in a professional or administrative occupation, such as would be gained through extended graduate study or experience and skill in applying this knowledge to difficult and complex work assignments; Or a comprehensive, intensive, practical knowledge of a technical field and skill in applying this knowledge to the development of new methods, approaches, or procedures. Note: Creditable experience may include previous military experience, experience gained in the private sector, or experience gained in another government agency. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Knowledge of professional electronic engineering and scientific concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, techniques and procedures; and ability to modify standard practices and techniques to solve complex interrelated problems. Knowledge of Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements, security architecture concepts and enterprise architecture reference models and the ability to ensure that protection and detection capabilities are acquired or developed are consistent with IC Element-level cybersecurity architecture. Knowledge of an extraordinary degree of specialized knowledge of expertise in the range of systems engineering and cy…

Education

IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you MUST submit transcripts with the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click here to check accreditation. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This position is a Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel Systems (DCIPS) position implemented under Section 504, Title V of Public Law 99-569, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987, as codified in Sec 1601, Chap 83 of Title 10 United States Code which sets forth Air Force policies and procedures for DCIPS. This position is in the Excepted Service. DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans' Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package. For additional information on DCIPS, click here