IT SPECIALIST (CUSTSPT)

IT SPECIALIST

(CUSTSPT) Department of the Air Force Air Nional Guard Units The supervisor for this position is MSgt Piotrowski. Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a

IT SPECIALIST

(CUSTSPT), Position Description Number D2180P01 and D2182P01 and is part of the PA 193rd Special Operions Wing, Nional Guard. 1 or more Position(s) may be hired against this Announcement. 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

(CUSTSPT), Position Description Number D2180P01 and D2182P01 and is part of the PA 193rd Special Operions Wing, Nional Guard. 1 or more Position(s) may be hired against this Announcement. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/29/2026 to 05/27/2026 Salary $68,545

• $99,053 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9
• 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Middletown, PA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—Recruitment and/or Relocion Incentive May Be Authorized Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) 2210 Informion Technology Management Supervisory stus No Security clearance Top Secret Drug test No Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus Yes Announcement number

PA-12937280-AF-26-106

Control number 867070700 This job is open to Help Federal employees

• Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales. Federal employees
• Excepted service Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluion criteria.

Nional Guard and reserves Current members, those who want to join or transitioning military members. Clarificion from the agency All service members of the Pennsylvania Nional Guard (This includes Traditional Airmen, Temporary Technicians and AGR Personnel) Duties Help As an IT Specialist (CUSTSP), GS-2210-09, you will administer classified and unclassified local area network (LAN) clients, monitors ongoing operion of network systems to ensure hardware and software functions, and meets operional standards. Incumbent uses da, voice, and wireless principles to plan, test, and configure client systems, network, voice and personal wireless communicions systems, to include specialized and unique plform IT systems. Provide real time monitoring of critical command and control mission reled systems within Wing, GSU, and tenant organizions for informion technology production control. Provide customer support, assistance, training, and oriention to Wing, GSU, and tenants. Adhere to management control plan requirements by conducting self-inspection and staff assistance s. Maintain required informion assurance certificion IAW DoD 8570.01-M, Federal Informion Security Management Act of 2002, Clinger Cohen Act of 1996. Perform other duties as assigned. As an IT Specialist (CUSTSP), GS-2210-11, you will manage the assigned IT/communicions environment with privileged access the network level for the Wing, Geographically Separed Units (GSU), and Tenants. Serve as a focal point for ensuring functionality and operability of the assigned IT/da systems/functions, voice and wireless systems to support mission requirements of Wing, Geographically Separed Units (GSU), and Tenants. Provide customer technical assistance and support for all users. Determine customer requirements and assists customers by recognizing and analyzing trends and providing instruction and oriention services. Conduct feasibility studies to identify and analyze system failures and analyzes da to determine if trends exist which forecast the need for future replacement or modificion of system hardware and software. Coordine frequency needs with command level spectrum management office to maintain current allocions and obtain new authorizions. Install, maintain, and repair hardware devices supporting a broad range of informion and communicions systems. Perform other duties as assigned. 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. 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. 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 trial period. Participion in direct deposit is mandory. Qualificions

APPOINTMENT STATUS

EXCEPTED This is a Dual Stus Excepted Service Technician position in the Pennsylvania Air Nional Guard.

AREA OF CONSIDERATION

Bargaining Position AOC 1: NG Employees the 193rd

SOW AOC 2

NG employees in the 193 Special Operions Wing (This includes 193rd RSG, 193rd AOG, 211th EIS, 271st CCS, 201st RHS, 112th ACS, 203rd Weher Flight, 193rd SOW Det 1, 148th

ASOS, PA ANG HQ DET 1

) AOC 3: NG Employees of the Pennsylvania Nional Guard AOC 4: All service members of the Pennsylvania Nional Guard (This includes Traditional Airmen, Temporary Technicians and AGR Personnel)

Military Grades :

ENLISTED E1

• E7 Supervisor for this position is MSgt Piotrowski Manpower #01075395 GS-09 $68,545.00
• $89,114.00 Developmental GS-11 $76,190.00
• $99,053.00

•

NOTE:

Accessioning into this position is contingent upon verificion of Top Secret Security Clearance

GENERAL EXPERIENCE

: Experience, educion or training th has 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 may have been gained in work such as computer operor or assistant, computer sales representive, program analyst, or other positions th required the use or adaption of computer programs and systems.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

GS-09: Applicion must indice least 24 months experience, educion, or training in analysis of the interrelionship of pertinent components of the system. Experience planning the sequence of actions necessary to accomplish the assignment. Experience scheduling the sequence of programs to be processed by computers where alternives had to be weighed with a view to production efficiency.

SPECALIZED EXPERIENCE

GS-11: Applicion must indice least 36 months 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.

QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE

Length of time is not of itself qualifying. Candides' experience should be evalued on the basis of duties performed rher than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compibility criteria/assignments must be followed. The applicant's record of experience, training, and educion must show possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position to be filled.

SPECIAL NOTE

Per the Merit Promotion and Placement Plan (MPP) if there are more than 15 qualified applicants for each position, by cegory, a KSA board convened in accordance with Chapter 4 of the

MPP. PCS STATEMENT

PERMANENT

CHANGE OF STATION COSTS WILL NOT BE PAID FOR THIS POSITION

The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is a diverse team of professionals who strengthen our commonwealth by serving our veterans and partners while preparing military personnel to safeguard our way of life. We do not discrimine in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), nional origin, political affiliion, sexual oriention, marital stus, disability, genetic informion, age, membership in an employee organizion, retaliion, parental stus, military service, or other non-merit factors. Applicants th are currently in an AGR stus who wish to request to move their AGR resource to this position upon selection, must submit a "Request for AGR Resource Realignment" memo with their applicion. A temple for the memo can be found : https://armyeitaas.sharepoint-mil.

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docx∾tion=default&mobileredirect=true Educion At the GS-9 level, a masters or equivalent gradue degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree may be substituted. At the GS-11 level, a Ph.D. or equivalent, or 3 years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to such a degree. 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 ( Register |

Selective Service System :

Selective Service System (sss.gov) ).

REPROMOTION CONSIDERATION

(Applies to technician applicants only.) Technicians who have been demoted from this or a higher grade previously held in the same occupional series without personal cause and who are not in a grade retention stus given considerion for re-promotion. Technicians who believe they are entitled to such considerion should forward a description of the circumstances with their applicion. Technicians eligible for re-promotion considered prior to using competitive promotion procedures, except when another technician has a stutory or regulory right to be placed in or considered for the position. In accordance with section 9902(h) of title 5, United Stes Code, annuitants reemployed in the Department of Defense shall receive full annuity and salary upon appointment. They shall not be eligible for retirement contributions, participion in the Thrift Savings Plan, or a supplemental or redetermined annuity for the employment period. Discontinued service retirement annuitants (i.e., retired under section 8336(d)(1) or 8414(b)(1)(A) of title 5 United Stes Code) appointed to the Department of Defense may elect to be subject to retirement provisions of the new appointment as approprie. (See DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 300, http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives .) 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. Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documention used to determine if you meet the qualificions listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you re yourself higher than is supported by your applicion package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion. Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

Your resume showing:

Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : AGR Resource Request

• All AGR applicants requesting to move their AGR Resource must submit Transcripts
• If using educion as a substitute for specialized experience These documents must be completely filled out, signed where applicable and submitted in order for your applicion to be considered complete.

If you do not completely fill out, sign and submit all of the above referenced documents your applicion

WILL NOT

be forwarded to the nomining official. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, your applicion can and disqualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your qualificions. If your resume does not provide enough informion regarding your work history for us to make a creditable qualificion determinion, your applicion package may be rendered disqualified and you will no longer be considered for this position. 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/12937280 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. 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 HRO Staffing Pennsylvania Phone 717-861-8523 ng.pa.paarng.list.j1-hro-st@army.mil 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 To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

Your resume showing:

Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : AGR Resource Request

• All AGR applicants requesting to move their AGR Resource must submit Transcripts
• If using educion as a substitute for specialized experience These documents must be completely filled out, signed where applicable and submitted in order for your applicion to be considered complete.

If you do not completely fill out, sign and submit all of the above referenced documents your applicion

WILL NOT

be forwarded to the nomining official. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, your applicion can and disqualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your qualificions. If your resume does not provide enough informion regarding your work history for us to make a creditable qualificion determinion, your applicion package may be rendered disqualified and you will no longer be considered for this position. 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/12937280 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. 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 HRO Staffing Pennsylvania Phone 717-861-8523 ng.pa.paarng.list.j1-hro-st@army.mil 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 04/29/2026 to 05/27/2026 Salary $68,545

• $99,053 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9
• 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Middletown, PA 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—Recruitment and/or Relocion Incentive May Be Authorized Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

PA-12937280-AF-26-106

Control number 867070700