Action Officer- TS/SCI - Military Veterans
at Amentum
Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. We are seeking an Action Officer to join our team of passionate individuals. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the nation's security and intelligence mission.
Responsibilities:
- You will directly support the customer's communications division director as an action officer to solve problems by leading or supporting a portfolio of projects and initiatives.
- Projects typically intersect technology, operational and policy aspects of current and future communications capabilities.
- Self-starter, able to effectively manage and prioritize independent tasks to meet deliverable expectations.
- Proactively coordinate actions and engage with organizational stakeholders and external mission partners across the federal inter-agency to achieve overall mission success.
- Author well researched quality staff document packages.
- Prepare briefing slides, coordinate, and track correspondence, formulate Courses of Action (COA's) and draft recommendations for senior decision makers that may have broad organizational or inter-agency impact.
- Develop and present technical papers and presentations to convey project status, objectives, and strategic milestones to senior officials; identify and quantify risks that would affect the quality, timeliness, and cost of project services and deliverables; recommend risk avoidance and mitigation plans.
- Support the formulation and execution of acquisition strategies.
- Provide technical reviews and input to policies, directives, plans, and CONOPS
- Participate as expert advisor to customer in various policy forums, working groups, meetings, and technical exchanges.
- Use problem solving skills and experience with DoD and Federal information systems and telecommunications networks to analyze, evaluate, and recommend solutions to meet future systems capability requirements.
- Lead complex projects from requirements development through design and acquisition, culminating in stakeholder operational test and acceptance.
- Apply technical expertise to make recommendations and support integration of fixes, modifications, enhancements, new systems, and new capabilities into existing operational architecture.
- Develop system requirements, model use cases, produce conceptual designs, develop technology integration strategies, and design systems architectures.
- Ensure developmental systems are interoperable with current communications equipment suites and design meets meet customer requirements
- Advise the customer on the development of technical approaches to solving integration and interoperability related problems.
- Participate in activities to ensure knowledge creation and sharing across the work program as appropriate.
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- Position requires advanced writing and speaking/presentation skills, exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.
- Experience in a cross functional team developing policy, operational concepts and doctrine, process development.
Clearance Required:
- Active DoD TS security clearance with SCI eligibility that has been adjudicated in the last 5 years or in designated CE status and the ability to obtain and maintain special accesses.
Minimum Education:
- BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, Project Management, or related discipline
Minimum Years of Experience:
- 10 years' programmatic, policy or operational experience within the DoD community involving communications-electronic systems, IT, RF voice, video, and data networks.
Preferred:
- MS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, Project Management, or related discipline.
- 15+ years' programmatic, policy or operational experience within the DoD community involving communications-electronic systems, IT, RF voice, video, and data networks.
- Military experience gained as an action officer in Pentagon, COCOM, other joint service or military department command staff assignment; experience as member or supporting role to a Strategic Initiatives Group or Commander's Action Group.
- Completed a joint or service specific Action Officer Course.
- JPME 1 or JPME 2 graduate.
- DoD System Acquisition or PPBE experience
- DAWIA certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Arlington, VA
Amentum brings industry-best expertise, processes, and technology to ensure the availability and reliability of our Government and commercial clients’ vital facilities and equipment. We apply our culture of excellence to operate, maintain, and manage your global assets and complex supply chains to meet modern challenges at home and abroad. You get the confidence that comes from a partner with on a century-long heritage of unrelenting dedication to our clients’ missions across the DoD, civilian agencies, and the IC.
We are looking for skilled Veterans interested in continuing your career in aviation, global logistics, IT and Network support, and also unmanned systems.
We currently have positions open nationwide and globally to include: Kuwait, Iraq, and other overseas locations!
Amentum’s skilled workforce lives with outcomes rather than just works on them. Our employees hold the most sought-after certifications in the industry, including Program Management Professional (PMP), IT/Cyber, ITIL, and Professional Scrum Master (PSM). Our teams who maintain and modify vehicles, aircraft, and weapons systems work within disciplined environments certified to AS9001D, ISO 9001:2015, AS9110B, and AS9100C standards.
Whether it’s managing facilities supporting the IC’s classified missions, operating UAVs that protect our soldiers, or maintaining military equipment at remote bases abroad, Amentum has the experience, passion, and commitment to meet your critical needs.
What happens after I apply?
First, you will want to ensure your RecruitMilitary profile is up to date, and you also have the most up to date resume to provide. Once you apply for the role you will be re-directed to complete your employment application on Amentum's career site. Once you complete that application a recruiter will review your skills and qualifications and reach out to you about the role as appropriate.