Operations Officer - Executive

Essential Job Functions:

The applicant shall provide services including supporting the creation and management of various complex management projects, issues, and initiatives. The applicant shall manage projects to assure priority actions are coordinated, staffed, and properly executed throughout the organization to guarantee timely, cohesive, and accurate execution of work.

The applicant shall leverage acquisition and program knowledge and experience to analyze information and data; assess progress of programs, projects, and processes; and provide information, analyses, and recommendations for program actions and decisions in an advisory role to the organization.

The applicant shall research current Government policies and guidance, to include the Department of Defense 5000 series; Department of Army (DA) policies and guidance; Army Materiel Command (AMC) policies and guidance; regulations, including Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and relevant supplements; and local guidance. The applicant shall assess applicability, recommend implementation instructions and actions, and recommend creation or updates to local policy and procedures as it relates to current projects, taskers, issues, and concerns.

The applicant shall maintain up-to-date program information for recurring taskers and specified program databases. The applicant shall respond to requests for information, taskers, reports, and briefings from the organization’s leadership team, IPTs, and external oversight organizations, up to and including Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)) and Congressional Committees.

The applicant shall collect and analyze program information and metrics, draft language and strategy, properly coordinate and obtain approvals, and submit responses in a timely fashion. The applicant shall staff Congressional inquiries, including coordination and tracking responses, and reporting the outcome to the organization’s leaders and COR.

The applicant shall review organizational leadership daily correspondence, recommend courses of action, and provide taskers to the appropriate organizational offices and other business groups and monitor tasker to completion.

The applicant shall serve as Audit Point of Contact, coordinating and managing all incoming Audit actions from the General Accounting Office (GAO) or other organizations.

The applicant shall interface and coordinate with internal and external organizations, including higher level staffs such as Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD); Department of Army (DA); ASA(ALT); Army Materiel Command (AMC); Army Research and Development Command (RDECOM); various product or service teams engaged in research, development and engineering (RD&E); PEO GCS and subordinate project or product managers; senior Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) officials, General Officers, other Detroit Arsenal entities; and members of the Senior Executive Service and industry executives.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Ability to obtain security clearance.

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Management, Logistics, Quality, Production, or other related technical field with 8 years of experience.

Minimum of 3 years of prior military experience that includes leadership positions and/or operations staff experience at the Battalion level or higher.

Minimum of 7 years of experience in the last 10 years coordinating the management of complex DoD engineering or technical programs with a background and knowledge of planning, organizing, performing, supervising, tracking, and reporting on complex programs (preferably ground combat vehicle systems experience). Acceptable experience is that which reflects a substantial role in all the required areas (planning, organizing, performing, supervising, tracking and reporting). 

Experience shall include: Interface and coordinate with higher level staffs; Provide program information, analysis, and recommendations to leadership for program action and decisions; Develop battle rhythm of activities; calendar management; coordinate and facilitate recurring staff meetings; Prepare, review, staff, transmit, and electronically store on government-owned systems, agenda, briefings, papers, tasks, minutes, calendars, action items, and other program-related documents; and Prepare required presentation materials for on-site and off-site events.

Five years' experience utilizing Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and Adobe Acrobat.