This is an open announcement to solicit candidates to fill positions using AFRL's Direct Hire Authority and is accepting applications from 1 Oct 2024 until 30 Sep 2025. Please clearly mark on your resume which AFRL location you are interested in applying for. Locations include Dayton, OH (Wright-Patterson AFB), Albuquerque, NM (Kirtland AFB), Valparaiso, FL (Eglin AFB), Arlington, VA, and Rome, NY.
Are you looking to grow as a professional? Would you like to enable the Air Force Research Laboratory’s ability to accelerate technology adoption and transition to the warfighter? If you answer yes, Air Force Research Laboratory has an opportunity for you.
AFRL is responsible for executing Air Force strategic development planning and leading operational experimentation to support the SECAF & CSAF in strategic decisions meeting current and future AF needs. As a key strategic financial specialist, this position will look at integrating and streamlining business practices across AFRL, to provide full life-cycle decision support across Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE).
Position duties include but are not limited to:
- Supports enterprise and mission priorities at all levels. Serves as a recognized expert in decision support, cost estimating, and cost analysis projects.
- Leads planning and programming and ensures the organization's program(s) within cost, schedule, and performance.
- Performs financial assessments to make determinations on the impact of a variety of resources, such as manpower, funding and facilities and provides financial management advisory services to organizational leaders.
- Leads work requiring the design, development, and adaptation of various program control methodologies and techniques.
- Guides financial managers as they work with customers to identify problems and develop strategies, while ensuring legal and regulatory compliance for effective resolutions customers. Coaches and mentors analysts in developing technical skills to create cost models and analytical frameworks supporting assigned projects, studies, or problems.
- Challenges, modifies/adapts inefficient methods/approaches to increase business efficiencies & effectiveness.
- Delivers conclusions and recommendations with creativity and ingenuity to support senior management decision making on the impacts of requirements definition and business acquisition plans based on sound research theory.
- Provides technical and cost guidance and advisory support to Comptroller and senior leadership.
- Attends meetings, conferences, briefings, and seminars related to program planning, advanced technologies, and support system concepts that impact cost estimating studies.
- Accomplishes professional development and maintains technical proficiency.