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Position Title
PROGRAM MANAGER (VICE AIR COMMANDER) (TITLE 32)
Agency
Air National Guard Units
Announcement Number
IL-12435368-AF-24-178 Opens in new window
Open Period
Monday, June 17, 2024 to Monday, June 16, 2025
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Eligibilities
1. US Citizens.  Are you a US Citizen? (limit characters)
2. Are you a current National Guard member within the state for which this position is being advertised? (limit characters)
3. Are you a current Permanent full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Permanent full-time status with the state National Guard.
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4. Are you a current Temporary Indefinite full-time Dual Status National Guard Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Indefinite full-time status with the state National Guard.
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Preferences
1. Would you accept a temporary appointment? (limit characters)
Conditions of Employment
This position has requirements which must be met prior to employment, and conditions for continued employment. Your answers to the questions in this section will indicate your understanding of, or possession of, these requirements and conditions. (limit characters)
1. I have a valid, current state driver's license or I am able and willing to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license. (limit characters)
2. This position requires membership in the IL Air National Guard (IL ANG). If you are not willing or are ineligible to join the IL ANG, please do not apply to this announcement. If selected, you MUST be or become a member of the Selected IL ANG.
 
Do you possess an IL ANG membership, or are you willing to obtain, and maintain a membership in the IL ANG?
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3. Please type your current RANK, AFSC/MOS, and UNIT in the space provided below.
 
If you are a member of another branch of service, please include your branch, rank and military specialty.
 
Prior service members should include their last rank held and military specialty.
 
Civilians should type "N/A".
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Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. Specialized Experience: Do you possess specialized experience for the GS-14 Level, which includes 12 months equivalent to the next lower grade and includes experience analyzing problems, identifying significant factors, gathering pertinent data, and recognizing solutions; experience preparing reports, plans, policies and various correspondence; experience evaluating objectives and developing plans to facilitate the availability and effective utilization of various resources; knowledge of the organization and its mission and utilizing the organizational staff procedures; experience applying analytical and evaluative techniques to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations carried out by administrative or professional personnel, or substantive administrative support functions? (limit characters)
2. Specialized Supervisory Experience: Do you possess specialized experience at the GS-14 Level, which includes experience managing the function of the work to be performed and experience which includes leading, directing and assigning work of personnel? (limit characters)
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided. (limit characters)
3. Assist the Air Commander in ensuring the formulation, presentation, justification, and execution of an allocated multi-million dollar budget involving several major force elements and state funds. (limit characters)
4. Through subordinate managers, ensure supply inventories are kept at proper levels; Stock Fund authorization will support unit activity level; logistics plans meet mobilization/mobility requirements and support war plans; procurement, contracting and payroll activities are proper, accurate, and timely. (limit characters)
5. Assist the Air Commander to plan, organize, direct and control real estate and facility construction, maintenance and repair, and utilization. (limit characters)
6. In conjunction with the Air Commander, negotiate and approve host/tenant agreements, memoranda of understanding, joint use and inter service agreements, leases, and licenses with military and civil agencies who provide and receive support, share resources, and inter operate with the unit. (limit characters)
7. Ensure proper and adequate security and safeguarding of property, aircraft and equipment, resources, and people entrusted to the unit/base. (limit characters)
8. Develop Resource Protection Plan which identifies high value/risk assets, evaluates potential threats, and sets levels of protection. (limit characters)
9. Assist the Air Command in communicating and coordinating items of interest and potential adverse impact at the highest levels of national, state, and local political leadership. (limit characters)
10. In conjunction with the Air Commander, represent the Air National Guard and state to foreign political and military dignitaries, including heads of state. (limit characters)
11. Coordinate policies, plans, programs, and requirements at the senior leadership levels of the Air Force, Major Command, war-time gaining commands, National Guard Bureau, and the Adjutant General's Office. (limit characters)
12. Directly and through group commanders, assist the Air Commander in determining unit goals which are the foundation for long and short range planning and execution of all unit programs, and provide a focus for all unit functions and activities. (limit characters)
13. Ensure goals coincide with national and state military strategies and local limitations. (limit characters)
14. Accommodate nontraditional military roles and missions such as foreign training, augmenting active Air Force training, disaster relief and drug interdiction. (limit characters)
15. Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position. (limit characters)