ASSISTANT AREA DIRECTOR

ASSISTANT AREA DIRECTOR

Department of Defense Defense Commissary Agency Summary In this position the incumbent serves as the Assistant Area Director. In this capacity, the incumbent functions as an alter ego and full assistant chief or deputy to the assigned Area Director, who is responsible for tactical operions of all of the commissaries within their assigned geographical jurisdiction Read the entire announcement before starting the applicion process. Learn more about this agency Summary In this position the incumbent serves as the Assistant Area Director. In this capacity, the incumbent functions as an alter ego and full assistant chief or deputy to the assigned Area Director, who is responsible for tactical operions of all of the commissaries within their assigned geographical jurisdiction Read the entire announcement before starting the applicion process. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/08/2026 to 05/26/2026 Salary $131,385

• $170,806 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Lee, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may be qualified for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 1101 General Business And Industry Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Other Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Modere Risk Trust determinion process Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure Yes Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number

DECA-26-12957603-DE

Control number 868588200 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency This position is open to the public Additional positions may be filled from this announcement. Duties Help As the Assistant Area Director , you responsible for the following duties: Serves as the Assistant Area Director within the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), Store Operions Group, supporting CONUS and OCONUS stores. Acts as the full deputy and alter ego to the Area Director for the East Area, assuming responsibility for operional oversight in the Director's absence. Exercises full managerial authority to plan, direct, supervise, and coordine the operional, administrive, and mission-reled activities of the East Area organizion. Oversees the execution of tactical operions for all commissaries within the Eastern geographic region, ensuring compliance with agency policies, performance standards, and mission objectives. Administers and manages a multi-appropriion financial program, ensuring operions are aligned with complex Department of War (DoW) planning, budgeting, and funding requirements. Provides leadership and guidance to subordine managers and staff regarding operional priorities, resource allocion, program implemention, and performance results. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Be a U.S. citizen or nional. Applicants with a Permanent Resident Card are authorized to live and work in the U.S. but are not eligible for employment in positions requiring U.S. citizenship. If selected, proof of citizenship is required. Meet minimum age requirement. See the Additional Informion. Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered with or exempt from Selective Service. Appointment is subject to successful verificion of identity and employment eligibility through E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, https://www.e-verify.gov/. Appointment is subject to a favorable suitability or fitness outcome, as determined by a completed background investigion. New federal employees fingerprinted. Be able to obtain and maintain clearance eligibility based on the approprie background investigion. May be subject to a probionary/trial period. Direct deposit of pay is required. Meet the physical requirements identified in the Qualificions section. May be subject to a supervisory probionary period. Required to file an OGE Form 450, Confidential Stement of Affiliions and Financial Interest. Qualificions You must meet the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) qualificions for series 1101 and additional requirements by the announcement closing de. Your resume (and/or transcript if necessary) must clearly show th you have the qualificions described below. You can use experience, educion, or a combinion of the two to qualify. When using educion to meet qualificions you must submit transcripts. See Required Documents for more informion. To qualify as a Assistant Area Director your resume and supporting documention must support: A.

Creditable specialized experience includes:

GS-14 Managing mission activities and multi-appropriion financial programs and funding frameworks. Experience leading major commissary and/or operional programs including logistics, acquisition, systems, and facility planning. Experience conducting long-range studies, performance reviews, and risk analyses to improve organizional effectiveness. Coordining crisis-response actions, executing confidential inquiries. Time-in-grade applies to the promotion of current and former federal employees who hold or have held a permanent GS position in either the competitive or excepted service in the previous 52 weeks, including current employees applying under VEOA. Your applicion package must contain proof you meet this requirement. See Required Documents for more informion. For GS-14: You must have 52 weeks of Federal service or equivalent to GS-13. Time after competitive appointment . Current federal civilian employees must have completed least 90 days of federal civilian service since being selected for a non-temporary appointment from a competitive examinion register of eligibles (an announcement opened to the public) or under a direct hire authority. As part of the online applicion process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evalue your level of experience in these competencies: Administrive Support Functions Minimum Qualificions GS-14

Organizional Leadership Retail Grocery Business and Trade Practices Overtime :

Occasional Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) :

Exempt Bargaining Unit Stus :

Not covered Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered : No. DoD criteria not met. Telework eligible : Yes Remote work eligible : No Educion You may not use educion to qualify for this position. Additional informion Executive Order 12564 requires a federal workplace to be free of illegal drugs and prohibits the use of illegal drugs both on and off duty by federal employees. As a reminder, marijuana is still classified as an illegal drug by the Federal government and is prohibited for use by Federal employees even if such use is legal in the ste where the Federal employee resides and/or works. The Defense Commissary Agency is a Drug-Free Federal Workplace where the use of illegal drugs will not be tolered and may result in penalties up to and including removal from Federal service. Upon first appointment to a civilian position in the Federal government, you are entitled only to the lowest step (Step 1) of the grade for which selected. The display of a salary range on this announcement does not suggest or convey an entitlement to a higher re of pay. The minimum age requirement is generally 18 years . Employing those under 18 may be possible under certain circumstances. If under 18 years of age, ensure you provide documention showing how you are eligible. Applicants with financial difficulty are not automically removed from considerion. Selectees are required to complete an online onboarding process. Retired military service members cannot be appointed to a Department of Defense (DoD) civilian position within 180 days of their retirement de. 5 United Stes Code 3326. PCS May be authorized. Most civilian PCS entitlements are now taxable. The Relocion Income Tax Allowance (RITA) reimburses eligible employees for additional Federal, Ste, and local income taxes incurred as a result of receiving taxable travel income. More informion is available Civilian Relocion/PCS Tax Changes . The following may result in a ring of ineligible. Ineligible applicants receive no considerion. Submitting an incomplete applicion package, such as missing documents, illegible documents, and/or missing informion necessary to determine qualificions and eligibility. A resume reflecting part-time (PT)/full-time (FT) or nothing rher than the number of hours worked per week (e.g., 40, 30, 20, etc.) may be considered incomplete. Submitting encrypted documents or uploading Adobe portfolio documents. Submitting any document th contains a photo or image of you. Including social media links, inapproprie merial or content, classified or government sensitive informion, or personal informion such as age, gender, race, religion, or social security number on your resume. Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or questionnaire responses. Deliberely tempting to falsify your applicion informion, such as copying portions of this announcement into your resume. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. HR reviews your documents to determine if you are qualified and meet requirements. Your questionnaire score is a preliminary measure of how well your background mches the required competencies. HR reviews your documents to determine if you are qualified and meet requirements. Your questionnaire score is a preliminary measure of how well your background mches the required competencies. Under cegory ring procedures you are placed into one of three cegories based on the evaluion results: Best Qualified

• Candides who possess the type and quality of experience th substantially exceeds the position's minimum qualificions, including all selective placement factors and approprie quality ranking factors. Highly Qualified
• Candides who possess the type and quality of experience th exceeds the position's minimum qualificions. Qualified
• Candides who meet the minimum qualificions and are proficient in some but not all of the position's requirements.

Candides in the best qualified cegory are referred to hiring managers before candides in other cegories. Within the best qualified cegory, candides are referred in the following order: adjudiced veterans' preference candides with 10-point preference, adjudiced veterans' preference candides with other than 10-point preference, military spouse preference candides, and candides with no preference. Selections are subject to restrictions of the DoD referral system for displaced employees. Neither preference nor priority entitles you to a Federal job. You must apply, meet the qualificion standards and all additional requirements, and submit all necessary documents. Military spouses must be in the best qualified group in order to receive military spouse preference.

Veterans Preference:

You must provide a copy of your DD-214 Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty or other acceptable documention th includes your character of service. The member 4 copy is preferred. Contact the Nional Archives or your military personnel records center to request a copy of your DD-214. Those claiming 10-point preference must submit a completed SF 15 Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference (For Veterans and Relives of Veterans) and all required proof listed on the reverse of the SF 15. Note th a letter from the VA th contains the following may be sufficient instead of a SF-15: Des of service, Discharge stus, and Disability ring. Contact the Department of Veterans Affairs or call 1-800-827-1000 to obtain a copy of the VA letter establishing proof of disability. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help Your Resume.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you removed from considerion for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documention should provide the minimum qualificions and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted reviewed for qualificions and referred for selection considerion, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Additional guidance on writing a federal resume can be found : USAJOBS Help Center

• How do I write a resume for a federal job?

The resume builder can help you cree a resume using these recommendions and uses the informion in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the Qualificions section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire. We do not assume you have the necessary experience to successfully perform in this job regardless of your employment history or academic career. At a minimum, your resume MUST contain your name, address, and contact informion, and the following for each listed job experience: Job title; Pay Plan, Series and grade, if it is a federal civilian position; Employer's name and address; Employment beginning and ending des (Month/Year); and Description of duties performed. Part-Time employment MUST include work hours for each job entry. Questionnaire.

Preview https:

//apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12957603 . Appointment Eligibility Criteria . You choose how you wish to be considered for this position by selecting one or more of the eligibilities listed in the Assessment Questionnaire and providing the supporting documents for the selected eligibility/eligibilities. Documents required to prove you can be considered for the selected eligibility/eligibilities are listed within the eligibility description. HR does not select or change your eligibility/eligibilities for you, regardless of the supporting documents you submit. You are considered ONLY for the eligibility or eligibilities you select and for which you provide all required supporting documents. If you have questions about which eligibility/eligibilities apply to you, contact the HR POC listed on this announcement. SF 50 Notificion of Personnel Action. To obtain copies of your SF 50s, all current Department of Defense (DoD) employees can access MyBiz , employees receiving HR servicing from DLA can access eOPF and former civilian employees can request a copy from the Nional Archives . All DeCA employees, regardless of locion or human resources provider , submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 showing your current position title, pay plan-series-grade, tenure, and position occupied. Current active duty armed forces personnel within 120 days of separion must submit written documention from the armed forces certifying th the service member is expected to be separed from active duty service not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is signed. The document must include the following informion: (1) service member's name, (2) de of the expected separion from active duty, (3) expected character of the active duty service separion, (4) pay grade/rank/re separion, (5) des of active duty service, and (6) any campaign or expeditionary medals received. You must submit the DD-214 when it becomes available.

PLEASE REVIEW THE BELOW LINK FOR OTHER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

needed for proof of eligibility: https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DODCustomersRequiredSupportingDocumention.pdf ? If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help You are responsible for verifying your applicion package is complete, accure, and submitted timely. As uploaded documents may take one or more hours to clear the virus scan, plan accordingly to ensure your applicion process is complete and your applicion package is submitted by the specified closing de and time. To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion.

NOTE:

Resumes up to a total of two pages accepted. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://www.usajobs.gov , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Please review the

General Applicion Informion and Definitions :

https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DoDGenAppInfo%2012-1-2020.pdf?ver=ECNbdsHtGilTd3OENN4A0Q%3d%3d Agency contact informion DeCA HQ Servicing team Phone 614-692-2331 Fax 215-516-6088 DHRCDDECAHQ@DLA.MIL Address

DECA HQ 1300

Eisenhower Street Fort Lee, VA 23801 US Next steps Notices post to your USAJOBS account and are emailed to you. You can expect to receive a notice when you complete the applicion process, when your qualificions stus is determined (qualified or not qualified), and when your referral stus is determined (referred or not). If you are referred but not selected, you can expect to receive a final notice after the hiring manager makes a selection. The hiring manager may choose to conduct interviews and may conduct telephone interviews to preclude travel hardships for applicants. Someone from the hiring agency (i.e., DeCA) will contact you if the hiring manager decides to interview you. Should you receive a tentive job offer, be aware such offers are automically withdrawn if you fail to (1) record an acceptance or declinion by the response de provided in the offer notice and/or (2) meet any pre-employment requirements, including a scheduled appointment. If you receive a job offer, use a computer to submit your response rher than a mobile/cell phone. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help Your Resume.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you removed from considerion for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documention should provide the minimum qualificions and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, des of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted reviewed for qualificions and referred for selection considerion, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lo, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Additional guidance on writing a federal resume can be found : USAJOBS Help Center

• How do I write a resume for a federal job?

The resume builder can help you cree a resume using these recommendions and uses the informion in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Your resume must thoroughly describe how your skills and experiences align to the criteria defined in the Qualificions section of this announcement and it must support your responses to the assessment questionnaire. We do not assume you have the necessary experience to successfully perform in this job regardless of your employment history or academic career. At a minimum, your resume MUST contain your name, address, and contact informion, and the following for each listed job experience: Job title; Pay Plan, Series and grade, if it is a federal civilian position; Employer's name and address; Employment beginning and ending des (Month/Year); and Description of duties performed. Part-Time employment MUST include work hours for each job entry. Questionnaire.

Preview https:

//apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12957603 . Appointment Eligibility Criteria . You choose how you wish to be considered for this position by selecting one or more of the eligibilities listed in the Assessment Questionnaire and providing the supporting documents for the selected eligibility/eligibilities. Documents required to prove you can be considered for the selected eligibility/eligibilities are listed within the eligibility description. HR does not select or change your eligibility/eligibilities for you, regardless of the supporting documents you submit. You are considered ONLY for the eligibility or eligibilities you select and for which you provide all required supporting documents. If you have questions about which eligibility/eligibilities apply to you, contact the HR POC listed on this announcement. SF 50 Notificion of Personnel Action. To obtain copies of your SF 50s, all current Department of Defense (DoD) employees can access MyBiz , employees receiving HR servicing from DLA can access eOPF and former civilian employees can request a copy from the Nional Archives . All DeCA employees, regardless of locion or human resources provider , submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 showing your current position title, pay plan-series-grade, tenure, and position occupied. Current active duty armed forces personnel within 120 days of separion must submit written documention from the armed forces certifying th the service member is expected to be separed from active duty service not ler than 120 days after the de the certificion is signed. The document must include the following informion: (1) service member's name, (2) de of the expected separion from active duty, (3) expected character of the active duty service separion, (4) pay grade/rank/re separion, (5) des of active duty service, and (6) any campaign or expeditionary medals received. You must submit the DD-214 when it becomes available.

PLEASE REVIEW THE BELOW LINK FOR OTHER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

needed for proof of eligibility: https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DODCustomersRequiredSupportingDocumention.pdf ? If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help You are responsible for verifying your applicion package is complete, accure, and submitted timely. As uploaded documents may take one or more hours to clear the virus scan, plan accordingly to ensure your applicion process is complete and your applicion package is submitted by the specified closing de and time. To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply Online to access an online applicion. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account or you may need to cree a new account. You taken to an online applicion. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention, and submit the applicion.

NOTE:

Resumes up to a total of two pages accepted. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. You will receive an email notificion when your applicion has been received for the announcement. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account, https://www.usajobs.gov , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the More Informion link for this position. The Applicion Stus page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and your responses submitted to the online applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Please review the

General Applicion Informion and Definitions :

https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Careers/downloads/DoDGenAppInfo%2012-1-2020.pdf?ver=ECNbdsHtGilTd3OENN4A0Q%3d%3d Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion DeCA HQ Servicing team Phone 614-692-2331 Fax 215-516-6088 DHRCDDECAHQ@DLA.MIL Address

DECA HQ 1300

Eisenhower Street Fort Lee, VA 23801 US Next steps Notices post to your USAJOBS account and are emailed to you. You can expect to receive a notice when you complete the applicion process, when your qualificions stus is determined (qualified or not qualified), and when your referral stus is determined (referred or not). If you are referred but not selected, you can expect to receive a final notice after the hiring manager makes a selection. The hiring manager may choose to conduct interviews and may conduct telephone interviews to preclude travel hardships for applicants. Someone from the hiring agency (i.e., DeCA) will contact you if the hiring manager decides to interview you. Should you receive a tentive job offer, be aware such offers are automically withdrawn if you fail to (1) record an acceptance or declinion by the response de provided in the offer notice and/or (2) meet any pre-employment requirements, including a scheduled appointment. If you receive a job offer, use a computer to submit your response rher than a mobile/cell phone. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/08/2026 to 05/26/2026 Salary $131,385

• $170,806 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Lee, VA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may be qualified for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

DECA-26-12957603-DE

Control number 868588200