
TITLE 32 PROGRAM MANAGER (DEPUTY AIR COMMANDER) (MI 110th Wing)
Battle Creek, MIFull-time$126–164K/yrPosted 3 days ago
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Job overview
This Michigan Air National Guard Title 32 position serves as the assistant to the Air Commander, providing leadership and management for a flying unit. The deputy helps plan and execute unit programs, manage personnel and resources, and prepare the unit for its wartime mission. Michigan Air National Guard membership is required, and applicants must meet the stated military grade and experience qualifications.
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Summary
THIS IS AN AIR FORCE NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a TITLE 32 PROGRAM MANAGER (DEPUTY AIR COMMANDER) (MI 110th Wing), Position Description Number NGD1469P01 and is part of the MI 110 Airlift Wing, Michigan Air National Guard. MICHIGAN AIR NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a Michigan Air National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position.
Duties
THIS IS A TITLE 32 NATIONAL GUARD POISITION THAT REQUIRES MILITARY MEMBERSHIP This position is located at an Air National Guard Flying Wing. The incumbent of this position functions as the full assistant to the Air Commander. Its primary purpose is to provide leadership and management of the flying unit, to provide manpower, equipment, and training in peacetime, in preparation to perform the wartime mission. The incumbent is accountable with the Air Commander in complying with a wide variety of federal, state, and local authorities on all aspects of operations, personnel, equipment, funds, and real property in the accomplishment of duties. In addition, this position may have similar supervisory and/or support responsibilities for other flying and non-flying units which may be collocated or geographically separated. Directly and through group commanders, incumbent assists the Air Commander in determining unit goals which are the foundation for long- and short-range planning and execution of all unit programs and provides a focus for all unit functions and activities. Ensures goals coincide with national and state military strategies and local limitations. Assists the Air Commander in ensuring the formulation, presentation, justification, and execution of an allocated multi-million-dollar budget involving several major force elements and state funds. Through subordinate managers, ensures supply inventories are kept at proper levels; Stock Fund authorization will support unit activity level; logistics plans meet mobilization/mobility requirements and support war plans; procurement, contracting and payroll activities are proper, accurate, and timely. Ensures the development and implementation of a variety of federal, state and local programs to ensure mission effectiveness: - Hazard Abatement Program: Ensures the development of a plan which meets national, state, and local environmental requirements for proper disposal of hazardous waste, control of fuel spills, and for providing safe working conditions. - Fraud, Waste and Abuse Program: Ensures compliance withaccountability procedures, to detect embezzlement, theft, and other criminal activities. - Health and Fitness Program: Ensures personnel are examined, evaluated, and receive medical treatment as required to be readily deployable world-wide, and able to withstand the rigors of warfare. Institutes fitness, wellness, and substance abuse programs. - Public Affairs Program: Maintains a positive community climate through a variety of recurring and special events. - Disaster Response Actions: Provides emergency service to the military, commercial carrier, and general aviation airfield users for airport/base crash/fire/rescue operations. - Personnel Management: In conjunction with the Adjutant General's staff, and through subordinate staff members, plans, organizes, directs, and controls unit military and full-time personnel under several different personnel systems. Ensures manpower authorizations, grades, and specialties are adequate for the mission. Maintains military and full-time strength through recruiting and retention programs. Assists the Air Command in communicating and coordinating items of interest and potential adverse impact at the highest levels of national, state, and local political leadership. In conjunction with the Air Commander, represents the Air National Guard and state to foreign political and military dignitaries, including heads of state. Coordinates policies, plans, programs, and requirements at the senior leadership levels of the Air Force, Major Command, wartime gaining commands, National Guard Bureau, and the Adjutant General's Office. In conjunction with the Air Commander, negotiates and approves host/tenant agreements, memoranda of understanding, joint use and inter service agreements, leases, and licenses with military and civil agencies who provide and receive support, share resources, and inter operate with the unit. Ensures proper and adequate security and safeguarding of property, aircraft and equipment, resources, and people entrusted to the unit/base. The above duty description doesn't contain all details of the official position description. Qualifications
Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the dates of each period of employment (from MM/YYYY to MM/YYYY) and the number of hours worked per week. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume. For additional information see: What to include in your resume. NOTE: All job seekers will be required to limit their resumes to 2 pages in length when applying for job opportunity announcements (JOAs) MILITARY GRADE: O6 Selectee(s) must be within the military grade(s) listed in this job announcement prior to the effective date of placement into the technician position to ensure to avoid grade inversion, as determined by the Human Resources Office (HRO). Technicians will not be militarily senior to their full-time supervisor or wage leader (Grade Inversion). Enlisted members currently at a higher grade than allowed by the position (see Military Grade Requirement above) may apply; however, they must administratively reduce prior to appointment and provide confirmation of the reduction to HRO. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience, education, or training in managing or directing, one or more programs, including appropriate supporting service organizations. Supervisory, managerial, professional, or technical work experience and/or training which has provided knowledge of management principles, practices, methods and techniques. Experience using computer and automation systems. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: 54 total months. Applicants specialized experience includes analyzing problems, identifying significant factors, gathering pertinent data, and recognizing solutions; preparing reports, plans, policies and various correspondence; evaluating objectives and develop plans to facilitate the availability and effective utilization of various resources. Must have knowledge of the organization and its mission and utilized the organizational staff procedures. Experience applying analytical and evaluative techniques to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations carried out by administrative or professional personnel, or substantive administrative support functions. QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE: Length of time is not of itself qualifying. Candidates' experience should be evaluated on the basis of duties performed rather than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compatibility criteria/assignments must be followed. The applicant's record of experience, training, and education must show possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position to be filled.
Education
No substitution of education allowed for this position. How You Will Be Evaluated
Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. You may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. WHO MY APPLY: AREA 1: Current permanent (Tenure 1 and 2) Federal Technicians/Employees of the Michigan National Guard and current temporary (Tenure 3 and 0) Federal Technicians/Employees of the Michigan National Guard who've held a temporary appointment with the Michigan National Guard for an accumulative 6 months within the last 12 months. IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Please note that if, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your rating can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities, or you may lose consideration for this position. Your rating will be based on both your entire application package as well as the responses to the assessment questionnaire. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid work on the same basis as for paid experience. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. To receive credit for such experience you must indicate clearly the nature of the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the number of hours per week spent in such employment. Your qualifications will be evaluated on the above general and specialized experience, to include following competencies- knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs): -Partnering -Technical Credibility -Technology Management Other Information
SELECTIVE SERVICE: If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). MILITARY MEMBERS WITH BONUSES: Upon acceptance of a military technician position military members who are currently receiving a military Reenlistment/Extension Bonus (REB) or GI Bill-SR Kicker may lose incentive eligibility and may be subject to termination or suspension of incentive (includes indefinite and temporary technicians on assignment for more than 180 days in any continuous 12-month period). Are advised to meet with education specialist to review contract. NOTE: If the individual selected is currently on a Title 10 or Title 32 tour no action can be taken until he/she is released from tour.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,808 open Program Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$126–164K/yr
- Michigan median$120–187K/yr103 salary ranges
- US median$126–200K/yr7,786 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $145K, is 5% below the Michigan median midpoint ($152K) — in the middle half of Program Management salary ranges in Michigan.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 159 open Program Management jobs in Michigan and 10,808 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Program Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 9,235 postings).
- Education
- 4,233 of the 10,808 open Program Management jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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