Total 71 Education / Training job vacancies in 0668 Arlington VA

• Develop and defend assessment reports internally to the Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations and Plans).
• Serve as representative in liaison with other team members for such purposes as exchanging techniques, technical information/ideas and collaborating on projects.
• Communicate findings via clear and concise written and graphic representations appropriate for audiences internal and external to the Army.
• Develop linear or multivariate programming models to optimize development projections.
• Ensure appropriate statistical tests are performed accurately on data.
• Develop mathematical, statistical, and other automated system models for identification and analysis of data.
• Identify and evaluate cost and budgetary factors that impact various programs and weighs cost relationships when developing models and alternative solutions.
• Analyze and evaluate advanced proposals to satisfy program and mission objectives.

DUTY 1:
Perform career broadening assignments working with senior analyst in planning, organizing, and directing logistics programming support for identified systems/programs. This includes the development, review, validation, and substantiation of current and long-range logistics requirements to support worldwide mission objectives. Develops, coordinates, and issues comprehensive guidance and procedures to be used by subordinate commands and field activities in the execution of budget/buy/modification/maintenance support for these systems/programs. Plans and conducts studies, and develops input for logistics policies and procedural systems applied throughout the MAJCOM. Develops logistics guidance and criteria for timely and cost effective life cycle support and implementation. Studies operational procedures and work methods involving interface with logistics support related to maintenance, distribution, and other technical requirement. Provides advisory assistance and interface with other activities. Develops and reviews metrics to accurately monitor the health of support equipment programs. Performs predictive analysis of capability impacts under varying funding levels.

DUTY 2:
Serves as a team member performing career broadening assignments involved in programming, prioritizing and defending key logistics programs in support of the warfighting objectives of the Air Force. Prepares, executes, and manages one or more programs for AMC sustainment. Develops and justify budget estimates and reviews procedures and techniques to be used in the buy/budget program proposals and evaluations. Evaluates OSD and agency logistics guidelines and instructions to determine necessary changes in requirements computations, logistics planning, etc. Issues initial and revised procurement authorizations covering the fending elves managed. Participates in the analysis of the progress and status of directed programs. Initiates reprogramming actions when necessary. Analyzes and assesses operating logistics programs in order to correlate resource requirements to achieve plans and objectives. Conducts/directs investigations and studies to respond to Congress, GAO, AF Inspector General, or other agencies.

DUTY 3:
Carries out special projects and assignments designed specifically to meet the broadening intent of the position. Represents the concerns of the organization at meetings and conferences preparing staff studies and various documents to meet special needs. Develops and presents oral presentations; leading and/or serving on steering committees or completing a project aimed at improving organizational effectiveness. Provides responsive and timely support to customers, actively supports achievement of financial program goals and objectives. Works to achieve and support quality improvement in all products and services and takes a proactive approach in providing customer assistance. Contributes to timely and viable
resolution of issues and problems that are complete, effective, coordinated, and well researched. Establishes effective professional working relationships with coworkers, or contacts outside the organization contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.

PRIMARY PURPOSE: Responsible for developing, leading and designing strategic education and career broadening opportunities for Air Force Futures team members and key positions.

DUTIES:

1. Plans, organizes, and oversees the activities of the DCS' Talent Management activities for all personnel.
2. Plans, organizes, and oversees the activities of the DCS' Professional Development activities for all personnel.
3. Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with Air Force Futures senior leaders, catalysts leaders and team leader coaches.
4. Performs personnel management responsibilities.

As a CONTRACT SPECIALIST GS-1102-13/14, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serve as the principal acquisition advisor to technical clients, providing expertise on use of Other Transactions in non-procurement and prototyping situations.
• Active involvement in the acquisition planning process, adapting to each technical offices varying internal processes, management and communication styles and personalities while reviewing and assessing requirements and developing the most appropriate, streamlined, and efficient acquisition strategy.
• Serve as a contracting officer, a grants officer, or an agreements officer with specified negotiation authority for assigned technical programs across technical offices and acquisitions.
• Assess and resolve complex pre-award issues including evaluating contractor technical and financial capability and perform cost analysis, negotiating subcontracting issues including utilization of small disadvantaged businesses as sub-contractors, and reinterpreting policies to apply to new or changing circumstances.
• Independently monitor contract performance, changes, deliverables, schedules, & financial status.
• Serves as the principal acquisition representative for a primary technical office, but also assists DARPA's technical offices in matters related to acquisitions and assistance.
• Inform senior management of significant actions, anticipated acquisition strategies and potential issues requiring management and/or General Counsel involvement.
• Manage workload and perform contract management using a host of electronic tools.
• Maintain continuous learning through training courses, professional activities, attendance at conferences, and speaking to maintain DoD education requirements.

As a OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYST at the GS-1515-11 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Designs, plans, research, performs, and supports modeling and simulation-based warfighting proficiency analyses spanning U.S., ally, and partner warfighting plans, options, concepts, and capabilities.
• Conducts directed warfighting analytics in accordance with Defense Priorities.
• Assesses warfighting proficiency (at mission and campaign levels) to evaluate, enhance, and advise on warfighting courses of action, joint warfighting capability mixes, and to develop detailed mission and campaign-level warfighting recommendations for Combatant Command planning, exercise, and experimentation staffs.
• Designs, develops, research, operates, and maintains mission and campaign-level databases and data analysis tools that underpin studies within the division and across the DoD analytic community.
• Supports principals and senior technical advisers on operational campaign effectiveness and warfighting proficiency.

As a Security Specialist at the GS-0080-15 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Determines and recommends to the Director, the nature and scope of the DARPA security and intelligence missions.
• Participates in revising program plans in light of changing DoD and DARPA policies, missions, and major operational doctrines, and formulates changes in policy and programs to ensure overall responsiveness of the national security and intelligence efforts to DARPA requirements.
• Exercises technical staff surveillance and control over the DARPA security, intelligence, and emergency management programs throughout all elements of DARPA.
• Monitors selective issues invested with the highest priority and/or sensitivity on a day-to-day basis.
• Directs actions to ensure that risks are identified, measures are designed, and actions are scheduled to facilitate the secure execution of DARPA projects while also countering vulnerabilities resulting from DARPA's dependence on information systems to accomplish its mission and to protect a wide range of sensitive and highly valuable assets.

• Improve the financial readiness of the force and family through program evaluation, assessment, and research.
• Develop and/or monitor financial literacy and preparedness training and readiness in the agency at specific career and life events of Service members.
• Build and strengthen working relationships and arrangements with the appropriate staffs of the other financial education agencies.
• Monitor changes in laws and regulations governing consumer credit and assess the impact of these changes on protections afforded Service members and their families.
• Participate in working groups as required to review training, readiness, and education materials.
• Conduct ongoing program assessments and identify program successes and shortfalls
• Prepare and submit results of the annual financial literacy and preparedness report for submission.
• Manage a comprehensive financial education on financial services available under law.
• Manage the requirements of the financial literacy training and readiness program for Service members.

• Provides objective, timely advice, and operational and resource assessments underpinned by analytics to inform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process including POM development, PBR cycle, Deputy’s Management Action Group.
• Integrates analytic insights spanning policy, requirements, and resources to inform strategy, investment, force management, and operational recommendations for decision.
• Develops, oversees, and implements the Army’s Analytic Plan each Fiscal Year in accordance with DepSecDef Analytic Guidance and in support of Army Senior Leader priorities impacting the Army enterprise
• Coordinates and collaborates within and across both the Army’s and DoD’s analytic enterprise to ensure the alignment and exchange of analytic assumptions, baselines, insights and findings

DUTY 1
In a Career Broadener capacity, actively manages programs, policies, operations, activities, and investments addressing nuclear, NC3, and global strike infrastructure modernization and recapitalization, sustainment, human capital, and tactical-through-strategic execution. Assists in resolving critical problems, improving program efficiency, recommending thoroughly researched solutions, and assisting with risk assessment and decision-making for senior management officials.

DUTY 2
As a Career Broadener, recommends and leads a broad range of qualitative and quantitative investigation, analyses, and organizational assessments, strategies, and policies addressing nuclear, NC3, and global strike infrastructure modernization and recapitalization, sustainment, human capital, and tactical-through­-strategic execution.

DUTY 3
As a Career Broadener, represents HAF/AlO and HQ USAF to a variety of multi-organization and multi-department functional area organizations.

DUTY 4
In a Career Broadening capacity, prepares and presents effective and comprehensive high-level briefings of conclusions, many being subjective and not readily susceptible to verification until actual operational conditions are encountered.

• Serve as a Senior Analyst and expert in a specific area of assignment within the Office of Management and
  Budget (OMB).
• Perform career broadening assignments working with the OMB leaders in planning, program planning,
  budgeting and associated cost analysis for budget programs.
• Carries out special projects and assignments designed specifically to meet the broadening intent of the
  position.
• Develops and recommends strategies for improving the value and effectiveness of management systems, field
  administration, program operations, mid-range and strategic planning, and program evaluation.

As a CONTRACT SPECIALIST GS-1102-13/14, some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serve as the principal acquisition advisor to technical clients, providing expertise on use of Other Transactions in non-procurement and prototyping situations.
• Active involvement in the acquisition planning process, adapting to each technical offices varying internal processes, management and communication styles and personalities while reviewing and assessing requirements and developing the most appropriate, streamlined, and efficient acquisition strategy.
• Serve as a contracting officer, a grants officer, or an agreements officer with specified negotiation authority for assigned technical programs across technical offices and acquisitions.
• Assess and resolve complex pre-award issues including evaluating contractor technical and financial capability and perform cost analysis, negotiating subcontracting issues including utilization of small disadvantaged businesses as sub-contractors, and reinterpreting policies to apply to new or changing circumstances.
• Independently monitor contract performance, changes, deliverables, schedules, & financial status.
• Serves as the principal acquisition representative for a primary technical office, but also assists DARPA's technical offices in matters related to acquisitions and assistance.
• Inform senior management of significant actions, anticipated acquisition strategies and potential issues requiring management and/or General Counsel involvement.
• Manage workload and perform contract management using a host of electronic tools.
• Maintain continuous learning through training courses, professional activities, attendance at conferences, and speaking to maintain DoD education requirements.

As a Program Analyst (Resources) at the GS-0343-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Providing financial management, program analysis, administrative guidance, and assistance to ensure sound and timely
  development of ongoing and proposed programs.
• Assisting in the budget formulation and justification process within the office.
• Ensuring the preparation of complete and well written Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs) and Purchase
  Requests (PRs) for the initiation and/or continuation of research programs.
• Functioning as the focal point and Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for office support contracts.
• Working as an analyst in conducting continuing analyses of one or more functional or program areas of office or DARPA
  acquisitions for the purpose of providing DARPA management, other federal agencies, contractors and congressional offices
  with financial and DARPA program information.

• Direct and/or conduct comprehensive and far-reaching studies of special interest to the Department on a full range of subjects regarding active and reserve military personnel engaged or contemplating engagement in workforce development programs.
• Assist in articulating requirements for the development of data systems supporting the analytical functions described herein.
• Prepare a wide variety of briefing charts, fact sheets and issue papers in support of the military personnel development planning and the Service personnel plans for developing the force.
• Develop, maintain, analyze, and revise personnel management historical databases and models used to project military personnel inventories of all types.
• Identify issues for study that may be generated by public policy concerns and their relationship to military personnel policy.
• Consult with cross-functional teams, to include product owners, designers, developers, researchers to develop data-driven solutions that address business and user challenges.

• Serves as expert Instructor and Facilitator in the Department’s entry- through mid- level mandatory leadership and supervisory course, to ensure maximum impact and learning/developmental value for those audiences.
• Designs and delivers leadership, management, interpersonal effectiveness, and similar training, workshops, and custom facilitated modules for Department employees, with a focus on supporting leaders and their employees.
• Provides expert advice and assistance to managers and directors of LMS to ensure leadership and management training, coaching and Organizational Effectiveness programs reflects state of the art content, applications, and techniques.
• Provides programmatic to support the coaching program, which includes overseeing the scheduling and logistics of onboarding new adjunct coaches and new coaching clients and managing in the coaching community of Practice.

• You will manage the internal operations of the International Science Program, to include an internal battle rhythm for a worldwide Department, regular reporting and communications, knowledge management, and research project quality assurance.
• You will orchestrate the annual development and curation of the International Science Program Plan, feeding into the Global Engagement Plan (GEP).
• You will oversee the International Science Program’s Strategic Communication Plan, to include regular reporting and communications to flag/general officers and senior government officials.
• You will maintain regular channels of communications within the International Science Program, through formal and informal interaction, collaboration, and coordination with the Regional Chief Scientists and the Science Directors.
• You will establish new and strengthen existing relationships across ONR and the Naval Research and Development Establishment.
• You will represent the International Science Program in the absence of the Program Manager and conduct other duties as assigned by the International Science Program Manager.