Logistics Management Specialist.

Duties

• Serves on the DLA Liaison Officer and Contingency Planner teams supporting Commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and its Service Components.
• Advises AFCENT and ARCENT on DLA support capabilities to ensure DLA is fully leveraged in pursuit of their objectives, providing timely and actionable intelligence to DLA CENTCOM and SOCOM leadership for support requirements.
• Represents DLA with the Office of Secretary of War, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USCENTCOM, Service Components, and Federal Agencies in planning and executing worldwide and regional exercises for contingencies, mobilization and emergency operations.
• Serves as the Planning Officer to AFCENT and ARCENT, supporting USCENTCOM J4 and Components, and a primary focal point for disseminating, coordinating, and tracking USCENTCOM support issues and concerns to and from DLA.
• Resolves shortfalls, limitations, and conditions impacting DLA's ability to perform wartime logistics support. Collects and evaluates exercise/contingency operations to use for improving/revising Agency directives, instruction, or Support Plans.
• Coordinates support planning and execution with DLA CENTCOM Support Branch, regional DLA major subordinate commands, and deployed activities to ensure DLA support is integrated, on-time, and accurate.
• Responsible for evaluating the Agency's support requirements to ensure After Action Reports (AARs) and lessons learned accurately articulate the Agency's commitment to support the warfighter.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirement: Special Sensitive/SCI
• Appointment subject to favorable suitability or fitness determination; unfavorable background checks are grounds for removal
• FLSA: Exempt
• Selective Service: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt
• REAL ID or acceptable identification required for federal facility access
• Pre-Employment Physical: Required
• Expeditionary Civilian: Emergency Essential
• Mission Essential position – incumbent may be required to report during emergencies, inclement weather, or crisis, and may work at designated duty location, telework site, or alternate location/facility
• Obligated position – occupancy subject to return of former incumbent
• Position may be used to fill various shifts at Shaw AFB, Sumter, SC
• This is an Expeditionary Civilian position – incumbent designated Emergency Essential and may be required to deploy via temporary reassignment or stay in place to support contingency operations; may be required to participate in readiness exercises
• Incumbent must be screened from military recall; military Reservists must arrange for removal from reserve component prior to appointment
• Emergency Essential positions are subject to deployment to combat support situations via TDY orders; additional monetary compensation may apply depending on deployment location
• This is a Term appointment NTE 3 years (with possible extension to 5 years or conversion to permanent promotion for current permanent DLA employees; others may be Term/Time-Limited NTE 3 years, not more than 6 years). Selected applicant must sign agreement acknowledging conditions and possible release at management's discretion.

Qualifications

To qualify for Logistics Management Specialist at the GS-13 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level or equivalent under other pay systems in Federal service, military, or private sector. Creditable specialized experience includes:

• Extensive work within military planning, policies and concepts; wartime and emergency logistics doctrines; organization and planning systems; DoD, JCS, and Military Services worldwide logistics support policies, procedures, and practices; and the DoD logistics systems structure which develops/evaluates comprehensive contingency, emergency and wartime logistics support plans
• Expert knowledge of and work within the military command structure, missions, programs, and organizational relationships, including function and organizational structure of supply chain logistics
• Expert knowledge of logistics management concepts, policies, methods, and regulatory requirements within logistical support planning

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work through National Service programs and other organizations; credit is given for all qualifying experience.

Education substitution is not applicable for this grade level.