Senior Program Analyst, Delta 1 Department of the Air Force Space Training and Readiness Command United Stes Space Force / Space Training & Readiness Command / Delta 1 Summary Do not email applicions. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here . For additional informion on other USSF direct hire opportunities the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on . Learn more about this agency Summary Do not email applicions. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here . For additional informion on other USSF direct hire opportunities the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on . Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted today
- Apply by 06/05/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 5, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Vandenberg AFB, CA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $104,349
- $161,313 per year Pay scale & grade NH 3 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
- You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0343 Management And Program Analysis Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Top Secret Position sensitivity and risk Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Nional security Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
FY23-6T-NH-0343-03-SPLASH
Control number 871083900 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Videos Duties Help The United Stes Space Force (USSF) Vandenberg SFB, Santa Barbara, CA is seeking a Senior Program Analyst, to support Delta 1 (NH-0343-03, GS-12/13 Equivalent).
Description:
If you are a forward-leaning professional with deep space operions expertise and a passion for shaping the future of nional defense, this role is where you belong. We are seeking a stregic thinker who thrives the intersection of planning, programming, and operional integrion-someone who can transle complex mission needs into actionable, long-range stregies th drive Space Force capability development. In this position, you will influence enterprise-level decisions across mission areas such as Space Domain Awareness, Space Protection, ISR, MILSATCOM, PNT, Space Test & Training, Launch & Range Operions, and Multi-Domain Warfare. You will help craft Space Force inputs to the PDM, FYDP, DPRB, BAR, and BES, ensuring our programs are aligned with stregic priorities, fiscal realities, and emerging operional demands. Your analytical insight will shape the alternives presented to senior leaders and directly impact how the Space Force postures itself for the future fight.
Ideal Candide:
The ideal candide is a seasoned professional with deep military space operions expertise and a demonstred ability to transle stregic guidance into executable, long-range plans and programs. They possess extensive experience developing, analyzing, and evaluing enterprise-level stregies across mission areas such as Space Domain Awareness, Space Protection, ISR, MILSATCOM, PNT, Space Test & Training, Launch & Range Operions, and Multi-Domain Integrion. The candide is adept shaping Space Force inputs to senior-level decision forums-including the PDM, FYDP, DPRB, BAR, and BES-and has a proven record of applying advanced analytical and evaluive skills to genere viable, fiscally informed alternives for senior leadership.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Knowledge of a wide range of qualitive and/or quantitive methods for the assessment and improvement of plans and programs. Knowledge of the Department of Defense Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) and policy, procedures, and schedules for developing Program Objectives Memoranda (POM), Budget Estime Submissions (BES) and Financial Plans in support of major war, mobilizion, and other contingency and operional plans as well as methods for developing budget forecasts, cost projections, financial exhibits, unfunded requirements justificions, POM narrives, offsets and disconnects, reclamas, and issue papers. Knowledge of military service program goals and objectives, the sequence and timing of key operional events and milestones, and methods of evaluing the effectiveness of planning actions as reled to actual events. Skill in designing and conducting comprehensive studies and preparing solutions to especially broad, important, and severe military operional and contingency areas. Ability to plan and organize studies or projects and to negotie effectively with management to accept and implement recommendions, where proposals involve substantial resources, and require extensive changes in established concepts and procedures. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Must be a U.S Citizen. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Informion (SCI) Security Clearance. A nondisclosure agreement must be signed. This position is designed as a Testing Designed Position (TDP) under the Air Force Civilian Drug Testing Program. Space (e.g. doctrine or stregy), cyber, and/or intelligence operions experience is highly desirable. Eligible for situional telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "Unscheduled Telework". This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applicions, whichever comes first. PCS / relocion funding is not authorized. Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): 15 days a year. Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments. A permanent basing decision for
STARCOM/DEL 1
is still pending and may require this position to be reloced based upon th decision, as applicable. Qualificions The 0343 series does not have an individual occupional requirement th must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here . Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrive and Mangement Positions. Additional informion Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Service are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more informion. Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability ring of 30% or more. For more informion, click here . 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. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualificions evalued on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as reled to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualificions determinions assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualificions Standards found here :
Interviews:
You contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your applicion is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your applicion for the position. 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 Resume:
You must submit a resume th may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inapproprie merial, inapproprie content, nor personal informion such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such informion you will not be considered for this vacancy.
Your resume must provide:
Personal informion
- your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Educion informion
- the name of the school and the des you tended Work experience
- paid and unpaid work with the following informion: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending des (If actual des are not known, provide your best-estimed timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualificions
- skills, certificions/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-reled training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Educion section of this announcement for detailed informion about transcripts.
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 Do not email applicions. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here .
PLEASE NOTE
It is the applicant's responsibility to verify th informion entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accure, and submitted by the closing de. You may verify your documents have been processed with your applicion package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here . Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Agency contact informion US Space Force Enterprise Talent Management HQ.USSF.TalentAcquisition@spaceforce.mil Address USSF
- Space Training and Readiness Command 1670 Space Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330 US Next steps For additional informion on other USSF direct hire opportunities the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on .
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 Resume:
You must submit a resume th may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inapproprie merial, inapproprie content, nor personal informion such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such informion you will not be considered for this vacancy.
Your resume must provide:
Personal informion
- your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Educion informion
- the name of the school and the des you tended Work experience
- paid and unpaid work with the following informion: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending des (If actual des are not known, provide your best-estimed timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualificions
- skills, certificions/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-reled training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Educion section of this announcement for detailed informion about transcripts.
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 Do not email applicions. To submit your resume for this Direct Hire opportunity click here .
PLEASE NOTE
It is the applicant's responsibility to verify th informion entered and/or uploaded, (i.e., resume) is received, accure, and submitted by the closing de. You may verify your documents have been processed with your applicion package successfully. You can access your USAJOBS account to do so by clicking here . Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion US Space Force Enterprise Talent Management HQ.USSF.TalentAcquisition@spaceforce.mil Address USSF
- Space Training and Readiness Command 1670 Space Force Pentagon Washington, DC 20330 US Next steps For additional informion on other USSF direct hire opportunities the Air Force Civilian Careers Space Force website and follow USSF on .
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 Posted today
- Apply by 06/05/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 5, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Vandenberg AFB, CA No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $104,349
- $161,313 per year Pay scale & grade NH 3 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less
- You may be expected to travel for this position.
Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Top Secret Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
FY23-6T-NH-0343-03-SPLASH
Control number 871083900