Summary You will serve as the Senior Leader for Marine expeditionary warfare capabilities and sea-basing integrator within the Service's force design and development processes. This position is located within the Headquarters, Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC)/Combat Development and Integration (CD&I), Quantico, VA. Responsibilities You will develop and implement long-range plans to meet Commandant of the Marine Corps objectives for sea-basing, expeditionary shipbuilding, surface connector requirements development and naval/Marine Air Ground Task Force integration. You will perform complex duties involving detailed analyses of the Marine Corps requirements for sea-basing, expeditionary warfare, force design, afloat MAGTF operations, expeditionary ship capabilities, and afloat prepositioning capabilities. You will engage daily and directly at the Flag Officer and Senior Executive levels across DoD, Joint Staff, CCMDs, DoN, OPNAV, HQMC, and multiple field organizations such as NAVSEA. You will engage Congressional Members and Staff, and industry to ensure the Marine Corps sea-basing-related operational concepts and requirements are integrated within all sea-basing platform, craft, and surface connector plans and programs. You will operate with a wide degree of latitude in work planning and performance under broad policy guidance. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: Applicants will be assessed against Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). Failure to provide a separate narrative statement which describes fully and concisely how your experience meets the Mandatory Technical Qualifications will eliminate you from consideration. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: (Each must be addressed separately in your Supplemental Narrative Statement. Each MTQ must not exceed 2 pages.) MTQs should reflect your most recent experience, ideally from the past 5-7 years, and no MTQ example should be older than 10 years. 1. Knowledge of sea-basing related platforms, expeditionary ships, prepositioning ships, non-displacement amphibious landing craft, and other related surface connectors. 2. Knowledge of Navy and Marine sea/shore-based organizations, missions, tasks, functions, and their deployment/employment organizational configuration and integration. 3. Skill in analytical methods and processes to analyze complex situations, consider alternatives, and arrive at viable solutions. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: 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. Education Additional Information This position is a Senior Level position in the federal government. Senior Level employees are in non-executive positions whose duties are broad and complex enough to be classified above GS 15 level. Senior level positions involve highly specialized and complex work. This position is not covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf.