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Training Manager, NSIC

Posted 6 days agoPeople & HR
Compensation
$110,401–$143,523/year

Job Description

Summary

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Accepting applications
Open & closing dates
02/23/2026 to 03/02/2026
Salary $110,401 to - $143,523 per year

Salary is dependent upon duty location, grade, step and locality pay.

Pay scale & grade GG 13
Location

Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH is searching for a Training Manager for NSIC (GG-0343-13).

General Description:
The candidates selected for the NSIC Training Manager positions will have extensive experience in the following focus areas:
Advising Leadership: Offers expertise and guidance to all levels of leadership on matters of education, training and overall workforce development. The ideal candidate will possess an advanced level of communication skills and the ability to align training initiatives with the broader organizational goals.
Overseeing Training Programs: Managing various training initiatives, to include designing, implementing and evaluating training programs that serve the organization's needs.
Managing Training Budgets: Handling the financial aspects of training programs, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively and efficiently.
Guiding Employees & Management: Providing counsel & support to employees at all levels, helping them navigate workforce development challenges and ensuring that both individual and organizational needs are addressed.
Leading a Team: Managing a team of trainers/training professionals, overseeing project assignments and ensuring that objectives are met.
Conducting Training Courses: Engaging in direct training delivery, to include areas such as leadership development, skill-building and professional growth.
Analyzing Training Needs: Continuously evaluating workforce needs and determining where training programs should be adjusted, expanded or created to meet those needs.

Ideal Candidate:
- Experience allocating and managing a training budget to ensure cost-effective solutions
- Knowledge of NSIC missions and functions and organizational structures, resources requirements processes
- Experience collaborating with training counterparts at the AF/SF/DoD level, Intelligence Community as well as academia.
- Skill in leading groups and managing teams
- Proven background continuous improvement and innovation


Recruitment Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
1. Knowledge of Air Force or DOD mission and functions, and organizational structures, resources requirements processes is highly desired
2. Knowledge of or ability to quickly comprehend Education, Training and Development principles, policies and practices.
3. Knowledge of data base management systems, requirements analysis, and data manipulation and extraction techniques
4. Skill in gathering, assembling, and analyzing facts; drawing conclusions; devising solutions to problems; identifying changes and trends; and preparing and presenting briefing and reports
5. Ability to carry out and complete assignments involving work with diverse and dynamic groups by gaining cooperation with tact, courtesy and diplomacy and moving them towards an ownership of their objective without imposing personal bias
6. Ability to maintain effective relationships with management officials, supervisors, employees, coworkers, and others to ensure cooperative resolution of problems and provide effective coordination of activities; and ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy, both orally and in writing.

Requirements

  • Must be a U.S Citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
  • May be required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
  • Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "unscheduled telework".
  • May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
  • May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
  • This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
  • PCS funding is authorized.
  • Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
  • This position is designated as a Testing Designated Position (TDP) under the Air Force Civilian Drug Testing Program.
  • Lifting of weights up to 50 pounds may be required to move supplies, or set up and arrange classroom furniture to meet classroom training needs.
  • This work is mostly sedentary and performed in an office setting.

The 0343 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

Evaluation

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Required Documents

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

  1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
  2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
  3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
    • Job title
    • Detailed duties and accomplishments
    • Employer's name and address
    • Supervisor's name and phone number
    • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
    • Hours per week
    • Salary, if applicable
  4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

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Job Details

Category
People & HR
Employment Type
Temporary
Location
Dayton, Ohio
Posted
Feb 23, 2026, 09:15 AM
Listed
Feb 23, 2026, 03:15 PM
Compensation
$110,401 - $143,523 per year

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