Director of Staff, Integrated Experiments & Evaluations Division

Job Overview

OPEN TO ALL QUALIFIED US CITIZENS.

This announcement will be accepting candidate submissions until 11:45 PM MDT, 12 October 2026.

Integrated Experiments & Evaluations Division, AFRL/RJE seeks to hire a mid-level, DR-III (GS-14 equivalent) at Kirtland AFB, NM.

Position Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Leads, coordinates, and advises the division chief on science and technology efforts involving space and launch vehicles. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, and direction to programs.
• Exercises a high degree of ingenuity and sound judgment in formulating, evaluating, and correlating broad engineering and scientific programs such as spacecraft subsystems; space demonstrations; and spacecraft integration and test.
• Serves as the deputy mission director for division spacecraft in on-orbit operations, makes risk-based recommendations to the mission director, and serves as continuity for operational considerations across mission directors.
• Assists the division chief in guiding the development of spaceflight program acquisition strategies and contracting approaches to achieve the desired objectives by leveraging prior knowledge and experience of successful approaches.
• Provides oversight coupled with business/cost engineering guidance and recommendations on actions associated with program technology.
• Combines scientific knowledge, systems engineering concepts, and cost insights with an overarching view of the division to ascertain the technical feasibility of goals/cost/efficiency of programs.
• Responsible for making authoritative engineering decisions pertinent to developing and implementing technical and programmatic courses of action.
• Responsible for overall direction and accomplishment of division business (financial, contracting, personnel, and facility) functions.
• Aids in day-to-day leadership for approximately 150 military, civilian, and contractor personnel executing an annual budget of ~$80M.
• Oversees resource allocations for manpower and in-house/contract programs to include contractual personnel and activities for compliance with AF and SF policy.
• Reviews evaluations, awards, decorations, presentations, & reports.
• Responsible for division activities such as PPB, LMR, FMR, Boards, QA Program, etc., and reports information to the division and the directorate as necessary.
• Participates in civilian annual appraisal process.
• Ensures all taskers in the division are completed on time.
• Coordinates FFRDC support to division.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Must possess an active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Must possess a professional bachelor’s degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited academic institution.
• 10 years or greater experience working on spacecraft efforts spanning the spectrum of spacecraft design, build, test, launch, and operations.
• Experience in a key leadership role for an acquisition program (program manager, deputy program manager, chief engineer, or comparable/equivalent role) managing cost, schedule, and performance; developing programmatic, acquisition, and contracting strategies; managing risks; leading a team.
• Familiarity with space technology across the user, ground, and space segments as well as the current USSF space architecture.
• A proactive leadership strategy and ability to work independently to solve multi-faceted complex problems that impact large groups of people with little direction.
• Sufficient emotional intelligence to understand the impact of decisions across the division workforce.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Experience writing awards and recognizing workforce contributions.
• Experience with DAF systems (i.e. ATAAPS, CCaRS, DTS, C2S2) and experience and familiarity with the Contribution-based Compensation System is highly desired.
• Must have at least two years of experience at the DR-03 (GS-14 equivalent) level.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• The preferred candidate should have expert knowledge in research and development and program management across a wide-range of space mission areas.
• The applicant should have skills in organizing and chairing various meetings, such as the weekly staff meetings, etc.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of all taskers and compile and edit weekly program status updates and provide status to the division chief, directorate, and AFRL management.
• Review technical and programmatic presentations and reports.
• Candidate must have a demonstrated ability in tracking funding execution and reports on OSD goal status at division and directorate level FMR meetings, and review and approve LMRs.
• Experience in compiling, prioritizing, and updating division unfunded requirements.
• Tracking and orchestrating hiring process for new military and civilian employees.
• Facilitates coordination of both formal/informal training for all personnel.
• Evaluates supervisory qualities and provides skill feedback to subordinate supervisors and ensures they obtain all required supervisor training within a specified timeframe.
  
  

Telework

Yes, this position is eligible for situational telework; as determined by agency policy

Eligible for a Referral Bonus?

No

Series

08XX

1310

1320

1330

1550

Additional Information

Resume requirement: Resume may not exceed two pages, and font size should be no smaller than 10pts. Must use DD/MM/YYYY date format for experience entries on resume.

Instructions on how to submit your resume are provided in the automated email you will receive once you apply.

Requisition Number 28653

Posting End Date

10/12/2026