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SPACE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Defense Information Systems Agency
Department of Defense
Location
Salary
$102,415 - $133,142
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-12 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves managing and optimizing office and workspace usage for a defense agency, including analyzing space needs, evaluating requests for more room, and coordinating moves or tech setups to support teams and projects.
It's a good fit for someone with experience in organizational planning and analysis who enjoys solving practical problems in a government setting.
The role requires strong attention to detail and the ability to balance budgets, policies, and operational needs.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent, focusing on space management analysis and policy recommendations
- Current or former federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements (held GS-11 or higher in the past 52 weeks)
- Knowledge of economic principles, cost analysis, and environmental assessments related to space management
- Ability to conduct comprehensive management studies and identify improvements
- Skills in evaluating space requests based on organizational structure, workflow, staffing, mission, and availability
- Experience coordinating procurement and changes for telephone, local area network services, and equipment relocations
- U.S. citizenship and ability to meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of announcement closing
Full Job Description
This position for The Defense Information Systems Agency is at Fort Meade, Maryland . **This Job Opportunity Announcement is using an additional online assessment tool to evaluate applicants.
Please review the HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED, REQUIRED DOCUMENTS, HOW TO APPLY and NEXT STEPS sections below for instructions.
Time-In-Grade: For GS-12, current or former federal employees who have held a GS-11 position or higher in the proceeding 52 weeks must meet the time in grade requirement.
Qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-11) within the federal service which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position is required.
Specialized experience is defined as: conducting analysis on organizational space management to provide recommendations for improvements and policy development.
You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.
Major Duties:
- Ensure policies are technically sound and managerially responsive to meet organizational requirements.
- Conduct comprehensive management studies using knowledge of economic principles, cost analysis and environmental assessments as related to space management, analyzing study results, and identifying problems and improvements.
- Analyze and evaluate space requests considering activities organizational structure, workflow, staffing, mission, location, special requirements and availability of space.
- Evaluate requests for additional space assignments within prescribed space allocations for permanent staff, approved contractor support, or ad hoc groups to determine the necessity for urgent requests.
- Coordinate procurement and changes / moves of telephone and local area network services to support personnel and classified or unclassified equipment relocations for special projects.
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