ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS), — The Division of the Air Pressure is unveiling a brand new civilian profession expertise administration course of designed to be extra nimble in growing each civilian leaders in addition to rising technical experience/competence.
The brand new “Civilians We Want” profession mannequin and accompanying profession roadmaps will assist DAF civilians plan their job experiences, training, coaching, and management alternatives to fulfill their skilled targets.
The twin-track civilian profession mannequin, which distinguishes paths for each enterprise leaders and purposeful consultants, was created to boost retention in addition to to advertise better variety.
“DAF civilians be a part of the workforce from a wide range of completely different sources, and it’s crucial that now we have a versatile framework to develop their careers,” stated Alex Wagner, assistant secretary of the Air Pressure for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. “Some need to grow to be purposeful consultants or leaders, and others need to grow to be enterprise leaders. The DAF wants and values each.”
The 2020 Racial Disparity Evaluate and up to date RAND research indicated that the DAF has disparities in senior civilian positions beginning on the GS-13 degree via the Senior Govt Service degree. Components comparable to expectations for geographic mobility {and professional} navy training involving mobility have been seen as boundaries to development for sure races/ethnicities and girls.
The normal enterprise chief observe supplies a broad base of improvement for individuals who aspire to enterprise management positions comparable to SES. This observe emphasizes depth and breadth of expertise each inside and past one’s major purposeful space, geographic mobility, {and professional} navy training.
The brand new purposeful skilled/chief observe is for growing purposeful consultants and leaders with substantive technical experience and institutional reminiscence. This observe encourages formal training on the grasp’s or doctoral diploma degree to prioritize depth of technical data.
A DAF-level roadmap representing desired attributes has been developed for every profession observe. These roadmaps function guides for profession choice making based mostly on whether or not the worker seeks improvement designed to arrange for DAF enterprise management roles or roles which offer deep purposeful experience and senior management inside a given purposeful space.
Leaders perceive that profession aspirations and private circumstances could change, so these roadmaps have been developed to additionally permit a person to modify between the 2 profession tracks at any given time limit.
“The profession roadmaps have been outlined and set up expectations for civilian profession improvement,” stated Gwendolyn DeFilippi, assistant deputy chief of workers for Manpower, Personnel and Providers. “Whether or not they’re cell and aspire to enterprise chief positions or whether or not they wish to be the perfect purposeful skilled that they are often, all civilians are valued — their contributions are valued — and now we have laid out a improvement observe for them.”
Along with the DAF-level profession roadmaps, profession area managers will construct career-field particular variations of each roadmaps that can be out there on MyVector.
The roadmaps are one other a part of the DAF’s “Rising Airmen of the Future” initiative that may form the drive we’d like, each navy and civilian, to face future challenges.
The “Civilians We Want” Mannequin and profession roadmaps have been codified within the DAF Handbook 36-142, Civilian Profession Subject Administration and Pressure Improvement, which now consists of references to the House Pressure and supersedes AF Handbook 36-606.
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