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Management and Program Analyst-Direct Hire Authority
Air Force Materiel Command · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Closes in 111 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or owe allegiance to the U.S. Male applicants must be registered for Selective Service.
Experience: You need at least 1 year of specialized experience at the next lower level, NH-02 (equivalent to GS-11). This means analyzing program effectiveness, developing policies or goals, evaluating programs, and identifying data for program management.
Education: This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 111 days (February 23, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
The announcement says it may close at any time, so apply early.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: Your application package (resume, documents, and questionnaire) is rated for eligibility, qualifications, and quality. Your questionnaire answers must match your documents, or you may be rated 'not qualified' or 'insufficient information.'
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must show hours per week and month/year dates for each job, or it may be marked insufficient.
- Keep your resume to two pages or less, and do not include personal information like age or religion.
- Make sure your questionnaire answers match what your resume and documents show.
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