Acquisition carrer program developmental assignment: special announcement - Career Development

Program Manager, May-June, 2003

The Army has issued a special announcement of developmental assignments in multiple functional areas at Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA) supporting the Department of Defense (DOD) and/or Army Business Initiative Council (BIC).

POSITION: GS 12-15 or military equivalents, in any occupational series in Resource Management; Acquisition Management; Test and Evaluation; Manpower and Personnel; Installation Management; Logistics, and Information Management.

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION/DUTIES: This will be a training assignment in one of the functional areas of the Army or DoD Business Initiative Council (BIC) support team. The BIC is chartered to improve the efficiency of business operations by implementing reforms throughout the DoD or Army that allow savings to be reallocated to higher priority efforts. The BIC serves as the corporate board of directors for these reforms. It is chaired by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and is comprised of the Service Secretaries and OSD and OJCS representatives. The developmental assignments will be primarily in support of the Process Function Boards (PFBs) that support the DoD and Army BIC processes. These boards are: Manpower and Personnel, Resource Management, Information Technology, Acquisition Management, Test and Evaluation, and Installations and Logistics. The Installations and Logistics board has three functional components: ASA I&E, ACSIM and G4. Duties will include managing administrative actions of the individual boards, helping to analyze and coordinate technical information related to functional areas, and working as a liaison between the support team, the functional boards and the BIC initiative champions.

AREA OF CONSIDERATION: Department of the Army employees in the following categories:

* On permanent appointment to the competitive service.

* Excepted service or non-appropriated fund employees, with competitive status.

* Eligible for competitive conversion or appointment to the competitive service, e.g., family members eligible under EO 12362 as amended.

Selectees will be assigned at present permanent grade level.

TOTAL NUMBER OF POSITIONS: up to 15

LENGTH OF PROGRAM: 3-12 months

LOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT: HQDA, Pentagon, in various staff support elements. If a selectee is from outside the commuting area of the developmental assignment, the costs of the travel and up to 55 percent of the maximum payable local per diem will be centrally funded.

To read the full announcement, go to the Army Acquisition Support Center Web site at http://asc.rdaisa.army.mil and scroll down to the bottom of the page.