Director of Staff, Integrated Experiments & Evaluations Division

About the role

Integrated Experiments & Evaluations Division, AFRL/RJE seeks to hire a mid-level, DR-III (GS-14 equivalent) position at Kirtland AFB, NM. The role is open to all qualified U.S. citizens, with applications accepted until 11:45 PM MDT, 12 October 2026. The position involves leading space and launch vehicle science and technology efforts, providing technical leadership, mentorship, and direction, serving as deputy mission director for on-orbit spacecraft, guiding acquisition strategies, overseeing division business functions, managing resources for ~150 personnel and an ~$80M annual budget, and ensuring task completion.

Responsibilities

• Leads, coordinates, and advises the division chief on science and technology efforts involving space and launch vehicles.
• Provides technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to programs.
• Exercises a high degree of ingenuity and sound judgment in formulating, evaluating, and correlating broad engineering and scientific programs such as spacecraft subsystems; space demonstrations; and spacecraft integration and test.
• Serves as the deputy mission director for division spacecraft in on-orbit operations, makes risk-based recommendations to the mission director, and serves as continuity for operational considerations across mission directors.
• Assists the division chief in guiding the development of spaceflight program acquisition strategies and contracting approaches to achieve desired objectives by leveraging prior knowledge and experience of successful approaches.
• Provides oversight coupled with business/cost engineering guidance and recommendations on actions associated with program technology.
• Combines scientific knowledge, systems engineering concepts, and cost insights with an overarching view of the division to ascertain the technical feasibility of goals/cost/efficiency of programs.
• Responsible for making authoritative engineering decisions pertinent to developing and implementing technical and programmatic courses of action.
• Responsible for overall direction and accomplishment of division business (financial, contracting, personnel, and facility) functions.
• Aids in day-to-day leadership for approximately 150 military, civilian, and contractor personnel executing an annual budget of ~$80M.
• Oversees resource allocations for manpower and in-house/contract programs to include contractual personnel and activities for compliance with AF and SF policy.
• Reviews evaluations, awards, decorations, presentations, & reports.
• Responsible for division activities such as PPB, LMR, FMR, Boards, QA Program, etc., and reports information to the division and the directorate as necessary.
• Participates in civilian annual appraisal process.
• Ensures all taskers in the division are completed on time.
• Coordinates FFRDC support to division.

Requirements

• Must possess