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AFSC 38M4, Staff
AFSC 38M3, Qualified
AFSC 38M1, Entry

Specialty Summary. Formulates and implements manpower and organization (MO) management policies. Directs MO management activities. Advises leadership on manpower management and continuous improvement initiatives and activities. Promotes and fosters a continuous improvement environment and modern business management practices. Plans, directs, and facilitates formulation and implementation of Air Force organizational and process standards. Develops and leads A-76 commercial activities studies, and competitive sourcing and privatization initiatives. Develops and implements Air Force productivity enhancing programs, and provides metrics development consulting services. Participates in deliberate and operational planning, and contingency and exercise operations. Programs and validates manpower resources. Assists leaders in design and implementation of organizational structures. Related DoD Occupational Group: 7C.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Formulates MO management policies. Plans, directs, organizes, and deploys MO activities and polices on most effective and efficient use of military, civilian, and contract resources; A-76 commercial activities studies; outsourcing and privatization; integration of contract resources and in-service manpower; productivity programs; activity based cost analysis; resource allocation; and application of scientific and industrial management techniques to facilitate budgeting and reengineering activities. Directs and conducts organizational development and process reengineering studies. Provides consulting and benchmarking services and information on modern business management practices. Advises and assists commanders to improve organizational performance. Conducts A-76 commercial activity reviews and studies. Develops and evaluates opportunities for outsourcing and privatization. Establishes and maintains manpower readiness and force management policies and procedures. Directs productivity related awards programs, just-in-time training, surveys, and process mapping. Administers Air Force productivity enhancing programs.

Develops and applies MO management policies and procedures for peacetime and wartime organizational and process standards and work center determinates. Uses industrial engineering and quantitative analysis techniques to provide data to develop manpower requirements and budget estimates. Directs operation of manpower portion of Air Force command and control data systems. Participates in manpower personnel readiness team or center operational planning, and contingency and exercise activities.

Directs, revises, and evaluates effectiveness of MO management programs. Advises commanders and staffs on equitable distribution of manpower resources. Designs and controls manpower data systems. Manages and controls manpower authorizations, and develops manpower documents and allocation reports. Helps develop manpower budget requirements and resource allocations to support mission requirements. Programs manpower requirements. Reviews and coordinates support agreements.

Develops, tests, evaluates, and staffs new or revised organizational structures. Evaluates effectiveness of existing organizational structures, and facilitates and recommends improvements. Programs and implements activation and inactivation of units. Assists commanders to develop unit mission and functional statements. Develops and maintains organizational structure codes.

Specialty Qualifications:

Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: MO management policies, principles, concepts, and tools; MO system and Air Force criteria; organizational development including strategic planning, consultation and facilitation skills, benchmarking, process reengineering, performance measures and metrics development, activity cost based analysis, manpower requirement determination, manpower readiness and force management, and management and organization concepts and methodology; survey techniques; officer and airman classification procedures; and principles and practices of system performance and process analysis, industrial engineering, management engineering, or industrial management.

Education. For entry into this specialty, undergraduate academic specialization is desirable in industrial engineering, industrial engineering technology, human resource management, business administration, organizational development, management engineering, behavioral science, quality management, computer science, mathematics, or operations research.

Training. For award of AFSC 38M3, completion of the basic Manpower Officer course is mandatory.

Experience. For award of AFSC 38M3, a minimum of 24 months of experience is mandatory in functions such as practical application of performance management principles; alignment of major command systems with Air Force strategic plan; facilitating or consulting on organizational system development; process reengineering; performance measures and metrics development; organizational and process standards development; methods study; work simplification; flow process and organizational structure analysis; facility layout analysis; productivity enhancement; productivity program management; manpower readiness; human relations; or MO management policies and procedures involving planning, programming, and allocating manpower resources and monitoring commercial activities programs.

Other. None.

Specialty Shredouts:

None

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Above Information Derived from AFMAN 36-2105