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Job ID: MD-4006
Job Title: DAG Staff Officer
Location: Ft. Meade, MD
Clearance: TS/SCI w Poly
Travel: None
Description:

TapHere is currently seeking a candidate whose primary duty will be to serve as the AFCO DAG Staff Officer.
Primary duties include:
• Assist AFCO DAG in maintaining an efficient, dynamic, inclusive organizational design to support executive priorities, goals, mandates, and decision-making processes. Ensures the quality of DAG staffing and briefing products.
• Accountable for task oversight support functions assigned to AFCO. Create and enforce policies for effective task management in coordination with the 16 AF Deputy Chief of Staff and AFCO DAG. Coordinate actions, clarify responsibilities and set timelines for completion to include maintaining accountability.
• Manage the customer’s formal tasking process, including tasking assignment, suspense requirements and task response. Assist with reports and data extraction when needed. Interact with customer’s staff to coordinate, develop, and process timely responses to internal and external formal tasking requests for information (RFI). Respond to internal and external tasking, including identifying discrepancies and ensuring documentation is sufficient for decision-making.
• Responsible for assigned Special Projects with impact at all levels where one or multiple functions are involved. Ensure effective communication, action management, and assigned special project outcomes in support of executive priorities and goals.
• Provide strategic communication messaging to inform the AFCO workforce and ensure consistency of the AFCO message to promote transparency and increased stakeholder understanding. Assist in establishing and implementing roles and procedures for communication with upper management external and internal stakeholders, etc.
• Proactively communicates across primary and external organizations to identify and implement critical solutions, mitigate and resolve inter-organizational challenges during the definition and execution of programs. Ensure effective communication across AFCO Principals and coordinate responses to requests for information. Ensures responses are timely, accurate, complete, and aligned with AFCO Director’s vision and organizational position, plans, and initiatives.
• Ensure integrity, quality, and timely flow of information, schedules, and actionable items to the DIR Suite. Organize project team efforts, develop and recommend proposals for improvement and resolve integration issues.

In addition to primary duties as the AFCO DAG Staff Officer, the candidate may perform activities as an Executive Assistant to the AFCO Senior Staff. These activities will not come at the expense of primary duties.
Additional Duties include:
• Performing a variety of complex and senior executive level administrative duties with minimal supervision in compliance with written and oral guidance and policies
• Executing independent decisions within established guidelines, and performing a full range of administrative services, including organizing the Director’s calendar.

Experience Required:

• Must have an active TS/SCI with a Polygraph.
• 6+ years of experience working with current Air Force Cyberspace and ISR capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and time management.
• Expertise in completing project tasks and reporting.
• 2+ years of experience as Squadron-level program manager, executive officer or executive assistant to a senior leader, or in a commander’s action group (CAG).
• 2+ years of experience with managing or responding to formal tasking from senior leadership or HHQ.
• Expertise in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Suite, SharePoint.

Designs, develops, and applies a variety of decision analytics, mathematical and statistical techniques, data mining, modeling and simulation, and other analytic methods combined with military and / or IC judgment to address operational and planning challenges to facilitate senior leadership decisions. Provides unique, and timely analysis on a range of pressing, operationally focused issues using multi-source data in the context of inter-disciplinary techniques and methods.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology. Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

• Required Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Required Education: Master’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have bachelor’s degree from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 15 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree.

Skills Required:

Desired Qualifications
• Experience with supporting Air Force, Air Forces Cyber, or US Cyber Command (USCC).
• Cryptologic Component and national agency enterprise missions
• Knowledge of Air Force ISR or Cyberspace policy directives and guidance
• Experience in Program Management.
• Experience in Knowledge Management.
• Knowledge in Human Resource functions to include general administrative functions, training and compliance.
• Experience working in Intelligence Communities as an Intelligence Analyst.

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