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OPEN: 2 NOVEMBER 2026 CLOSES: 16 NOVEMBER 2026
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) is currently seeking a full-time Supervisory Acquisition Program Management Specialist to be the Launch Systems Wing Communications Branch Chief in the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Systems Directorate, Sentinel Systems Program Office at Hill Air Force Base near Layton, Utah.
This position (986384) is an NH-1101-04 Supervisory Acquisition Program Management Specialist. The typical salary range for this position is $125,776 – $160,871 that aligns with the NH-04 band (incorporating Hill AFB locality pay of 17.06%), based on Value of Position (91).
- Value of Position: If your current basic salary is within the band, but above the stated Value of Position, your basic salary will not be reduced if you are selected for the position.
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- Provide all academic degrees, professional military education and any other professional certifications on your 2-page resume.
- Recruitment and/or relocation bonuses might be offered upon review of qualifications, and other significant factors.
- Candidates may be asked to provide three professional references upon request.
The AFNWC ICBM Systems Directorate, Sentinel Systems Program Office manages the complete replacement of MMIII ICBM Weapon System. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Branch Chief for the Sentinel Launch Systems Wing Communications Branch within the Sentinel Launch Systems IPT.
RANGE OF DUTIES:
- Engage with extended and geographically dispersed teams, including subject matter experts from across the Sentinel and Minuteman III Programs, AFNWC, Air Force Global Strike Command, integration support contractors, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Air Force Civil Engineering Center and others to ensure development activities are successfully planned, coordinated, and executed.
- Supervise a geographically dispersed team providing oversight, planning, and mentoring as well as all other administrative supervisory duties.
- Support Wing Communication Infrastructure development activities at the appropriate level of maturation for any given milestone, demonstrating team readiness in relation to achieving the milestone entrance and exit criteria.
- Serve as a technical focal point and daily liaison for integrating efforts with key stakeholders for project planning, scheduling, execution, and status reporting on assigned projects.
- Provide continuous assessment/evaluation of overall program goals, objectives, strategies, performance to ensure a sound basis for long-range acquisition program management processes and follow-on system life cycle support planning.
- Ensure participation and outcomes of special projects result in positive impact(s) on the organization and/or improves quality.
Desired Skills: ABILITY: Demonstrated accomplishment relative to a subject matter, to apply concepts, synthesize, and make decisions
- Advanced multidisciplinary professional acquisition concepts, principles, practices, and standards.
- Analyze, plan, and adjust work operations to meet program objectives and requirements within available resources.
SKILL: Demonstrated experience to process, translate, and interpret subject matter
- Ability to plan, organize, and direct the functions of an organization and mentor, motivate, develop, and appraise assigned staff as well as analyze, plan, and adjust work operations to meet project requirements, goals and objectives within available resources and other statutory/regulatory constraints. Experience with supervising a geographically separated team.
- Strong communication, organizational and leadership skills with demonstrated experience in leading, influencing and collaborating in a diverse team environment that includes government and contractor stakeholders.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective relationships, building consensus and coalitions, negotiating, and resolving conflicts with a variety of stakeholders and their organizations as well as communicating effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Experience with the development of a new Weapon System addressing all support elements and sustainment requirements for successful operation and sustainment over the life cycle.
- Strong background in collateral, sensitive compartmented, and special access program security program management.
- Knowledge of acquisition concepts, principles, practices, standards, methods, techniques to apply to problems.
KNOWLEDGE: An understanding of ideas, concepts, principles, theories, and techniques
- Mission, roles, functions, organizational structure, and operation of the DoW, Air Force, and organizations that govern, interface with, and/or influence systems acquisition, development, and/or sustainment.
- Implementation of the government acquisition process.
- U.S. Citizenship
- Employee must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance with special sensitivity, Special Access Program (SAP), and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access eligibility.
- This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
- Employee may be required to work overtime or an irregular work shift.
- This position is designated as an acquisition position and is covered by the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP). The selected candidate must meet, or be capable of meeting, Defense Acquisition Work Improvement Act requirements applicable to the duties of the position, which includes achieving Program Management “Advanced” certifications within associated time allocations following appointment.
