Strategic Planning Specialist

DLA Careers; Battle Creek (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Disposition Services seeks a qualified Strategic Planning Representative to advance the agency's strategic plan, drive major initiatives, and coordinate cross-functional activities. The role emphasizes analytical oversight, briefings, and communicating complex data to leadership.

The position requires specialized experience in initiating agency programs, evaluating performance, and developing milestone-driven plans to ensure mission success.

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience in planning, developing, and implementing agency initiatives, programs, or projects.
• Monitoring and evaluating operations and performance to improve procedures.
• Planning, directing, and coordinating new initiatives with established priorities, metrics, and milestone schedules.
• Consolidating information into briefings, presentations, or data visualizations for communication.

Responsibilities

• Serves as senior technical expert in DLA Disposition Services and cross-functional teams.
• Coordinates and implements strategic activities related to DLA Disposition Services initiatives.
• Develops strategic communications using multiple channels to convey DLA services and capabilities.
• Provides leadership with integrated information supporting overall DLA strategies.
• Evaluates operations and performance metrics to assess tasks, missions, and plans.

Skills

Strategic planning

Program design

Monitoring & evaluation

Briefings & data visualization

Job description

Summary

See below for important information regarding this job.

Duties

• Serves as senior technical expert in DLA Disposition Services and on several integrated teams with representatives.


• Serves as Strategic Planning Specialist in the Resource Management Directorate with responsibility for planning and implementing major portions of the DLA Disposition Services strategic plan.


• Coordinates and implements comprehensive strategic activities related to moving DLA Disposition Services initiatives.


• Reviews and analyzes reports received to identify processes or indicators which may have applicability to improve or enhance skills/competencies to contribute to DLA Disposition Services success.


• Develops strategic communications that leverage all available communication conduits and technologies to most effectively communicate DLA services and capabilities.


• Provides senior leadership with carefully researched, integrated, and coordinated information that directly contributes to overall DLA strategies.


• Evaluates operations, business information and performance, metrics, and processes to assess DLA supporting tasks, missions, and plans.


• Serves as the Command Climate Culture Representative.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen


• Tour of Duty: 1st Shift;


• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access


• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.


• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt


• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.


• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized


• Bargaining Unit Status: No


• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities.

Qualifications

To qualify for a Strategic Planning Representative your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify 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 the Federal service, military, or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes:


• Designing, developing, and implementation of agency sponsored initiatives, projects, or programs.


• Monitoring and evaluating operations and performance to improve procedures.


• Planning, directing, and coordinating the accomplishment of new initiatives, projects, or programs, ensuring priorities and metrics are established and milestone schedules were coordinated and published to reflect the agreed upon outcomes


• Consolidating information into briefings, presentations, reports, or other forms of data visualization for presentation.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

As required by 5 C.F.R.

• 302.106, DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R. 1194).

For Important General Applicant Information and Definitions go to http://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf

Reemployed Annuitants

This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol300.PDF

Information for Veterans

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs/. As of 23 December 2016, Military retirees seeking to enter federal service in the Department of Defense now require a waiver if they would be appointed within 180 days following their official date of retirement.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability to successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment. You may be required to sign a \"Drug Test Statement of Understanding\" if you are selected for this position.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY

Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal.

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