AVIATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST (Title 32) @ Air National Guard Units

Job Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a AVIATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST (Title 32), Position Description Number D2934000 and is part of the OK 137th Special Operations Wing, Oklahoma Air National Guard.

Qualifications

MILITARY GRADES

• E-3 through E-7

GENERAL EXPERIENCE

• Experience, education, or training which provided a general knowledge of principles of organization, management, and administration.
• Experience using computer and automation systems.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

• Must have at least 24 months experience, education or training in any position that required compiling reports, letters, memoranda, etc., and required person-to-person contacts to convey information.
• Applicants must have experience providing technical guidance and assistance in the type of work or in comparable work of the position to be filled.
• Applicants must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of administrative procedures and practices of management.
• Experience developing administrative procedures.
• Knowledge of extensive body of Aviation Resource Management objectives, policies, technical rules, guidelines, instructions, regulations, policies and precedents to support and flight pay and training requirements.
• Knowledge of AF operations, resource management systems and associated programs, interface requirements, browsers, personnel flight records and maintenance.
• Knowledge of aviation service eligibility, aircrew rating requirements, aircrew flight incentive pay requirements, conditional incentive pay requirements in relationship to reserve status codes, active/inactive reserve status.
• Knowledge of a wide range of computer/automated data processing techniques, requirements, methods, sources, procedures, system software/hardware and analytical and diagnostic methods.
• Extensive knowledge of ARMS System work processes and applications to develop database and adhoc queries on alternative approaches, to identify problems, to plan and implement solutions and to collaborate with design center personnel to incorporate needed system changes.
• Knowledge of the objectives, overall design and operating principles of ARMS in order to recognize probable interactions within the functions of the assigned programs.
• Skill and knowledge in applying analytical and investigative techniques to apply regulations, policies and concepts pertaining to aviation resource management to evaluate aeronautical order publication, entitlement pays, physical and physiological requirements, suspensions, disqualifications, revalidations, and requalification.
• Ability to troubleshoot and recognize systems-related problems and their possible causes.

Major Duties

• This position is located in the Air Operations Group of an Air National Guard Aviation Wing.
• The primary purpose of this position is to plan, analyze, manage and control all operational & administrative aspects of aviation resources, safety, training, and flight hours by utilizing the Aviation Resource Management System (ARMS).
• Serves as a management analyst with responsibility to advise and correct all operational and administrative aspects of the Aviation Resource Management System.
• Maintains, controls, and assigns security levels to users to ensure security of the database.
• Develops and implements unique applications programs using base-level computers to meet the specific needs of the unit.
• Designs, develops, and modifies reports using System Query Language (SQL) and ad hoc queries to provide leadership with data retrieved through selective manipulation of the database.
• Analyzes management report products to determine program adequacy and accuracy, trends, and recommends corrective actions as required.
• Communicates with ARMS Working Group (AWG) and Air Force Major Command points of contact regarding ARMS updates for issues or desired changes to the system and to ensure ANG use of the ARMS program is compatible with the Air Force standards, i.e., aviation objectives, policies, plans, and concepts.
• Identifies system related problems, their possible causes, and repairs or requests system repairs to the proper authority or DoD agencies.
• Perform the following operations for an average of 375 aircrew members.
• Provides go-no-go reports and conducts pre-mission and post-mission reviews; records aircrew and aircraft flying hour data; determines aviation service actions for attached and assigned flying personnel as it directly affects mission accomplishment and safety of flight.
• Researches, validates, and interprets Air Force Instruction (AFI) Mission Design Series (MDS), specific medical and physiological requirements and flying and ground training requirements; and compares with higher headquarters mission training requirements.
• Translates these requirements into aircrew training tables, profiles, reports, and utilizes products to brief aircrew, senior leadership, training coordinators, commanders, and outside sources to include Numbered Air Force (NAF), Major Commands (MAJCOM), and Headquarters (HQ) U.S. Air Force (USAF) to show training requirements, overall training objectives, and accomplishments.
• Notifies commander of individuals who fail to maintain flying or medical standards.
• Develops database queries to assist in identification of suspense actions or actions requested by senior leadership to include promotion boards, disciplinary boards, or commander specific requirements.
• Develops and maintains procedures with outside agencies to validate that aircrew medical requirements are in compliance and accomplished in accordance with appropriate Department of Defense and Air Force Instruction.
• Interprets and administers laws and regulations regarding entitlement incentive pay.
• Sole baselevel approval authority determining entitlement to millions of dollars in aircrew incentive pay.
• Researches, interprets, analyzes and applies Department of Defense, Air Force, Air National Guard, and Wing guidelines, policies, and regulations including Aviation Management regulations, the Aviation Career Incentive Act (ACIA) of 1989, The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 1996, Pilot Records Improvement Act of 1996, and the NDAA of 2000.
• Applies complex flight/jump pay rules and determines eligibility and entitlement to Aviation Incentive Pay (AvIP), Critical Skill Incentive Pay (CSIP), Special Warfare Airmen Skill incentive Pay (SWSIP), Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay (HDIP), and EARi (Aviation bonus Pay).
• Analyzes the flight pay control Document/jump pay control document to update monthly entitlements to receive provisional AvIP, CSIP, or HDIP.
• Execute career field development responsibilities.
• Create and assign ARMS roles necessary to carry out 1C0X2 duty position requirements.
• Ensures deployment readiness for personnel.
• Self inspections, rotation of positions (Training office, Stan/Eval, Current Ops, Scheduling).
• Periodically reviews position descriptions to ensure accuracy, and the most effective utilization of personnel resources.
• Performs self-inspections on assigned programs and presents detailed and comprehensive report with any corrective action.
• Monitors/analyzes and evaluates work relative to development and/or execution phases of the records management.
• Interprets records management policies and procedure and assures conformance to the rules, regulations, and policies of the National Archives and Records Administration, Records Management and Declassification Agency, Department of Defense and Department of the Air Force for all records maintained by the HARM.
• Ensures required documentation is preserved, and that all other information is retained, reviewed, and disposed of systematically.