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Posted: January 26, 2026 (1 day ago)

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SUPERVISORY IT SPECIALIST (POLICY AND PLANNING)

U.S. Marine Corps

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Salary

$106,437 - $138,370

per year

Closes

February 4, 2026

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 leading a team of IT staff to manage and plan network services for a Marine Corps base in South Carolina, including creating policies, developing plans, and ensuring smooth communication with other military units.

A good fit would be someone with experience in IT leadership, strong organizational skills, and the ability to handle both daily operations and long-term projects in a fast-paced government environment.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-12 level or equivalent, including developing policies for telecommunication networks and managing short- and long-range planning
  • Supervisory experience overseeing IT personnel, including military, civilian, and contractors
  • Strong attention to detail in performing thorough and conscientious work
  • Excellent customer service skills to assess needs, resolve issues, and provide quality IT services to clients inside and outside the organization
  • Effective oral communication abilities for clear presentations, listening, and responding to diverse audiences
  • Problem-solving skills to identify issues, evaluate information, and recommend solutions
  • Ability to develop correspondence such as directives, reports, and standard operating procedures

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Supervisory IT Specialist (Policy and Planning) in the IT Division, S6 Department of MCAS BEAUFORT SC.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Developing policy related to local telecommunication network and system operating units, centers or network control facilities; AND, managing short- and long-range planning efforts to accomplish the organization's mission, goals, and objectives.

Your experience must reflect skill in the following areas: Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.

Customer Service - Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work unit produces, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.

Oral Communication - Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-b/ .

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will supervise the daily performance of IT personnel to include Marines, Civil Service personnel, and contractors.
  • You will develop a variety of correspondence (e.g. command orders, directives, standard operating procedures, reports briefing, point papers, positions paper, and talking papers, etc.)
  • You will maintain lines of communication with other installation's G6/S6 staffs throughout the Marine Corps.
  • You will plan and perform all functions for the delivery of network services throughout the region by developing project Plans of Action and Milestone, timelines, budgetary requirement, system/network resources usage policies and procedures.
  • You will provide direction, guidance, and develop policy for local telecommunication network and system operating units, centers, or network control facilities.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/26/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/26/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12868868-26-LW