Salary StatementEstimated Starting Salary Range: USD $136,850.00/Yr. - USD $228,100.00/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
DescriptionSeeking a highly skilled Deputy Division Support Lead to provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to the Department of War (DoW) Test Resource Management Center (TRMC).
The Deputy Division Support Lead serves as the execution-focused deputy to the Division Support Lead and helps manage the day-to-day operating rhythm of the TR-I support office. The role translates leadership direction into structured staff action, works closely with action officers and other support personnel, synchronizes support functions, enforces follow-through, and ensures that products elevated to senior leadership are timely, aligned, and ready for review.
- Front-Office Operations Management
- Managing the daily operating rhythm of the TR-I support office
- Coordinating staff activities to maintain visibility into priorities, suspenses, and deliverables
- Identifying operational bottlenecks and elevate issues affecting execution
- Leadership Tasking and Follow-Through
- Translating leadership guidance into clear tasking, ownership, and suspense management
- Monitoring progress of assigned actions and ensure timely follow-through
- Driving resolution of overdue, incomplete, or misaligned actions
- Executive Product Readiness and Screening
- Reviewing products before elevation to the Division Support Lead or Division Chief
- Ensuring materials are complete, aligned with leadership intent, and mature enough for executive review
- Returning products for refinement when additional coordination or improvement is needed
- Staff Synchronization and Process Discipline
- Synchronizing action officers and other support personnel to maintain disciplined front-office workflow and product quality.
- Maintaining workflow standards across front-office support activities
- Supporting recurring meetings, reviews, and executive engagements with organized inputs and read-ahead
- Funding and Execution Visibility
- Maintaining awareness of funding actions, spend plans, and major execution activities affecting the division
- Monitoring the status of funding-related packages and identify issues affecting schedule or leadership priorities
- Supporting visibility into major review cycles, resource actions, and execution risks
- Process Improvement and Workflow Management
- Supporting improvement of support-office workflows, management tools, and recurring business processes
- Promoting disciplined use of collaboration and tracking tools
- Helping improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency across support-office operations
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, program management, financial management, public administration, or a related field
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in defense acquisition, military staff operations, executive staff support, program management, defense financial management, test and evaluation organizations, or similar environments
- Experience supporting senior leaders in a high-tempo defense or headquarters setting.
- Demonstrated ability to translate high-level guidance into actionable tasks with clear ownership and follow-through
- Experience synchronizing multiple staff functions and managing competing priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Active Secret Clearance
Desired Skills
- Experience in a deputy operations, executive staff integration, or front-office management role within OSD, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a PEO, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment
- Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process
- Professional certification such as Project Management Professional (PMP) or Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level III, Practitioner, or Advanced equivalent in Program Management, Engineering, or Financial Management
- Experience with defense funding package workflows, spend plans, obligation tracking, or execution reviews
- Working knowledge of defense acquisition frameworks and project management fundamentals
- Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or Power BI
- Experience leading or mentoring multidisciplinary support teams
- Experience improving business processes, executive support workflows, or action-management systems
Clearance Information
SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS WELL AS, A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL
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