IT SPECIALIST (ENTARCH)

IT SPECIALIST

(ENTARCH) Department of the Air Force Air Nional Guard Units 102 Intelligence Wing Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a

IT SPECIALIST

(ENTARCH), Position Description Number PDD2358000 and is part of the MA ANG 102nd IW, Nional Guard. This is a Bargaining Unit position. The unit point of contact and contact phone for this position is: Lt Joseph Craig email joseph.craig.12@us.af.mil or phone; (508)968-7303. Learn more about this agency Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a

IT SPECIALIST

(ENTARCH), Position Description Number PDD2358000 and is part of the MA ANG 102nd IW, Nional Guard. This is a Bargaining Unit position. The unit point of contact and contact phone for this position is: Lt Joseph Craig email joseph.craig.12@us.af.mil or phone; (508)968-7303. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/14/2026 to 05/14/2026 Salary $84,579 - $109,959 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Otis ANG Base, MA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) 2210 Informion Technology Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Secret Drug test No Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus Yes Announcement number

MA-12928045-AF-26-102-025

Control number 865032500 This job is open to Help Nional Guard and reserves Current members, those who want to join or transitioning military members. Clarificion from the agency Open to current members of the Massachusetts Air Nional Guard (MAANG) and those eligible to transfer to the Massachusetts Air Nional Guard. Nional Guard Membership IS required for this announcement. Duties Help Provides IT engineering and installion services to DoD, MAJCOM, NGB and base level customers. Performs IT architectural design and engineering work for complete IT systems, downward directed programs/systems, Internet Protocol (IP)-based systems and circuits, one-of-a-kind systems, routine upgrades, and system enhancements. Analyzes capabilities and performance, identifies problems, and directs corrective actions to provide seamless integrion, proper configurion, operion, defense, restorion, and improvements. Deploys, sustains, troubleshoots and repairs standard voice, da and video network infrastructure systems, IP detection systems and cryptographic equipment. Directs activities for installing, maintaining, repairing, overhauling, deploying, and modifying cyberspace systems and equipment plforms and evalues facilities layout and performance standards. Researches, interprets and applies approprie technical and policy guidance for each assigned project. Ensures downward directed IT projects/programs integre with existing infrastructures. 20% 2. Manages and directs engineering and installions training and operions in garrison and deployed locions. Conducts career field development and mentoring for subordine cyberspace support personnel. Plans and organizes cyberspace support activities. Determines equipment, training and supplies required for systems implemention and support. Advises unit personnel, and training activities on ways to improve their OJT program. Recommends cost-effective processes to meet specialty qualificions, skill level upgrade requirements, and PME applicions. Provides instructional methods, and determines training requirements. Analyzes training da for trends, and coordines corrective action. Establishes local policies and procedures to provide a uniform and effective internal OJT program. Establishes tactics, techniques and procedures. Ensures work standards are maintained. Organizes and participes in mission implemention and conversion. Performs administrive support for function personnel including requesting special orders, making travel arrangements and assembling da to support engineering efforts. Requests, evalues, and selects engineering workload to meet function training and proficiency requirements. Ensures compliance with standards for systems documention. 20% 3. Produces IT architectural installion project packages. Coordines project requirements with affected Communicion and Informion Systems Officer (CSO) to ensure system inter-operability, compibility, and cost effectiveness of the proposed technical solution. Directs activities responsible for system analysis and design, programming, operions and maintenance, security, systems management, technical support, plans, implemention, and resource management. Researches, interprets, and implements policies, directives, and procedures to ensure proposed requirement(s) conform to policies, standards, and guidelines. Advises the CSO on potential problems or delays. Coordines project requirements and assignment of project identificion numbers with project manager. Ensures project package is published and distributed. Reviews, recommends, and implements changes to communicions-computer systems installions records (CSIR), technical da, engineering drawings, and equipment wiring diagrams. Reviews assigned projects for environmental considerions. Applies communicions security programs to include physical, cryptographic, transmission, and emission security. Develops and ensures compliance with safety standards and instructions. Ensures required studies and tests such as electro-magnetic compibility, electro-magnetic radiion hazards, TEMPEST, are performed and included in final IT project package. Recommends solutions to electromagnetic compibility problems. Utilizes a comprehensive knowledge and ability to interpret Air Force Instructions, Technical Orders, engineering drawings, product specificions, Air Force Occupional and Health (AFOSH) and environmental standards, public law, and locally developed policy. Evalues and assesses complex systems, subsystems, integred systems/subsystems, or components for conformance to applicable technical da, engineering drawings, standards and specificions. Establishes and develops performance checklists, MICT and metrics in coordinion with Chief of Quality Assurance section. 15% 4. Configures, installs, maintains, reconstitutes, removes, reloces, overhauls, and modifies IP-based systems, circuits, and intrusion detection systems, physical and wireless Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), ground radio, sellite, and telemetry communicions, command and control, weher, 15% Performs other duties as assigned. The above duty description does not contain all details of the official position description. For more details, please contact the POC listed above. Requirements Help Conditions of employment

NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED.

If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a Nional Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position. This is an excepted service position th requires membership in a compible military assignment in the employing ste's Nional Guard, required prior to the effective de of placement. Selectee required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigion. May be required to successfully complete a probionary period. Participion in direct deposit is mandory. Favorable background check is required. Incumbent must possess or be able to acquire the approprie level security clearance for this position.

Qualificions Military Grades:

ENL:

SSgt to

MSgt Compible Military Assignments:

AFSC:

1D7 or 1C8 AREA

OF CONSIDERATION

: Open to current members of the Massachusetts Air Nional Guard (MAANG) and those eligible to transfer to the Massachusetts Air Nional Guard.

NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED

: This is an excepted service position th requires membership in a compible military assignment in the Nional Guard. Selectee required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position Constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the Nional Guard must be eligible for immedie membership and employment in the Nional Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a Massachusetts Air Nional Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE

Must have experience th provided a basic knowledge of da processing functions and general management principles th enabled the applicant to understand the stages required to autome a work process. Experience must be IT reled; the experience may be demonstred by paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (for example, IT certificion), as approprie. Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about tending to detail. Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (th is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products th your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizions outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide informion or assistance, resolve their problems, or sisfy their expections; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services. Oral Communicion - Expresses informion (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nure of the informion (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentions; listens to others, tends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriely. Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of informion; uses sound judgment to genere and evalue alternives, and to make recommendions.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

Must have least 1-year specialized experience equivalent to least the next lower grade. In addition to the OPM IORs (Alternive A) specialized experience examples, specialized experience includes experience, educion, or training th approaches techniques and requirements approprie to an assigned computer applicions area or computer specialty area in an organizion. Experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment where this entailed coordinion with others outside the organizional unit and development of project controls. Experience th required adaptions of guidelines or precedents to meet the needs of the assignment. Experience preparing documention on cost/benefit studies where is involved summarizing the merial and organizing it in a logical fashion. Such experience is typically gained in the IT field or through the performance of work where the primary concern is IT. The employing agency is responsible for defining the specialized experience based on the requirements of the position being filled. OR Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR 3 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE

: Credit given for approprie unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of months/years.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE

: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills th can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional informion If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorizion Act of 1986 requires th you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistrion.aspx ).

MILITARY INCENTIVES - BONUSES AND STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM

: If you are selected for this position, you may lose your eligibility for your Nional Guard Enlistment/Reenlistment Bonus and Student Loan Repayment Program incentives. In order to avoid losing your incentive eligibility, you should check with your incentives manager prior to accepting an offer for the position. For M-Day/Traditional personnel who are currently receiving incentives to include Bonuses and the Student Loan Repayment Program incentive, the following terminion rule applies: Incentive Terminion without

Recoupment:

If you accept an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) position or a Military Technician (Mil Tech) Permanent or Indefinite position after 25 February 2010 where membership in the Nional Guard is a condition of employment, your bonus termined with no recoupment. Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019 An employee of an agency may not request, in oral or written form, th an applicant for an appointment to a position in the civil service disclose criminal history record informion regarding the applicant before the appointing authority extends a conditional offer to the applicant. An applicant may submit a complaint, or any other informion, to an agency within 30 calendar days of the de of the alleged non-compliance by an employee of an agency. To file a complaint please click this link and scroll to the bottom of the page for more informion. 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. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. Once the applicion process is complete, a review of resume and supporting documention made and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, you may lose considerion for this 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 must be submitted with the following informion: Your name and contact informion. Work Experience section of your resume must include: Name of the organizion you worked . Job title you held the organizion. Start and end des for the position (des must have month and year) . Bulleted stements regarding duties you performed in the position. Be clear and concise in sting your duties, we will not make any assumptions regarding your experience. Your bulleted stements should reflect th you have the required specialized experience described in this announcement. If your position was in the civil service, include the grade and series for the position. If applicable, include

TRADITIONAL GUARDSMEN

experience. Enter your AFSC, bulleted stements of duties, and start and end des (des must have month and year) . Educion and certifices if applicable. Include name of school, degree, or certifice, start and end des. Part-Time, unpaid, volunteer work if applicable. Include duties and responsibilities and start and end des ( des must have month and year).

IMPORTANT

Resumes th exceed 2 pages cannot be For additional informion regarding resume requirements : https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/page-limit Unofficial Transcripts, if used to qualify (An official transcript may be required before being hired.) 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 To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12928045 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package.

IMPORTANT

Your resume cannot exceed 2 pages. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Agency contact informion

STAFFING MA HRO

ng.ma.maarng.hro.staffing@army.mil Address MA ANG 102nd IW 170 Granville Street Otis

ANGB, MA 02542-1330 US

Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. 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 must be submitted with the following informion: Your name and contact informion. Work Experience section of your resume must include: Name of the organizion you worked . Job title you held the organizion. Start and end des for the position (des must have month and year) . Bulleted stements regarding duties you performed in the position. Be clear and concise in sting your duties, we will not make any assumptions regarding your experience. Your bulleted stements should reflect th you have the required specialized experience described in this announcement. If your position was in the civil service, include the grade and series for the position. If applicable, include

TRADITIONAL GUARDSMEN

experience. Enter your AFSC, bulleted stements of duties, and start and end des (des must have month and year) . Educion and certifices if applicable. Include name of school, degree, or certifice, start and end des. Part-Time, unpaid, volunteer work if applicable. Include duties and responsibilities and start and end des ( des must have month and year).

IMPORTANT

Resumes th exceed 2 pages cannot be For additional informion regarding resume requirements : https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicion/documents/resume/page-limit Unofficial Transcripts, if used to qualify (An official transcript may be required before being hired.) 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 To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12928045 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package.

IMPORTANT

Your resume cannot exceed 2 pages. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion

STAFFING MA HRO

ng.ma.maarng.hro.staffing@army.mil Address MA ANG 102nd IW 170 Granville Street Otis

ANGB, MA 02542-1330 US

Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. 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 04/14/2026 to 05/14/2026 Salary $84,579 - $109,959 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Otis ANG Base, MA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

MA-12928045-AF-26-102-025

Control number 865032500