You will serve as Technical Lead for the Gateway and Lunar Team within the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), Program Integration Branch at NASA Johnson Space Center, responsible for providing official representation of the Directorate to Gateway and Lunar Program boards/panels/working groups; leadership and integration for Gateway and Lunar technical issues and actions; and, support to Assistant Directors, Astronauts, Flight Directors and the Program Integration Branch, as requested.

Duties

Coordinates and integrates work efforts of team personnel. Identifies/distributes/balances work assignments. Monitors and reports on status and progress of work, ensuring deadlines and quality standards have been met. Fosters a healthy team dynamic, provides clear direction/communication to team-members, including rationale behind management decisions. Identifies areas where operational efficiency can be enhanced for the Team and the Gateway and Lunar Programs. Recommends actions to maintain/improve quality and quantity of services, as needed. Leads, implements and sustains initiatives, as needed. Identifies, evaluates and recommends resource requirements to the Branch Chief for existing work, new tasks and various costing exercises. Develops long-range planning and detailed plans for their implementation. Leads Gateway and Lunar customer support for the Branch. Customers include: NASA Astronaut Office; JSC Flight Director Office; Flight Operations Directorate Office, NASA Program Offices; and may include other personnel/disciplines across the Agency. Leads or oversees technical integration tasks, ensuring that all parts of the problem have been identified, thoroughly evaluated and combined into an efficient/effective result that considers the ground and Crew's operational perspective. Oversees organizational support to Gateway and Lunar Boards/Panels. Leads/oversees evaluations of change requests/actions/issues and integration into overall Directorate positions. Works to ensure organization "speaks with one voice". Subject matter expert on human space flight operations to support high-level decisions during Development and "Ops Phase" program integration. Focuses on safety/feasibility/mission success and operability; ensures crew views are represented.

Requirements

• Current Federal employees must meet qualifications, time in grade, and 90 days after competitive appointment requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• If the individual selected is currently at the GS-14 grade level, they will be detailed at their current grade and step. If the individual is a current GS-13 they will be temporarily promoted to the GS-14 level.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below and have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, which has equipped you with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above. NASA utilizes OPM-approved qualification and rating requirements specific for Aerospace Technology (AST) positions which recognizes NASA's unique aerospace work. The specific qualifications and minimum education requirements are further described below and within the education section of the job announcement. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Leading pre-flight mission planning/preparation, pre-flight training, or real-time mission execution for human space flight programs; Providing inputs to management on technical issues, processes, or organizational recommendations/positions; Integrating a variety of technical discipline products or recommendations (e.g. mission changes, requirements, system capabilities, operations concepts). Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

Education

Basic Education Requirement: You must have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with a major in one of the following:
a) Engineering from a college or university that has ABET accredited engineering programs
b) Physical Science, Mathematics, Life Science or other field of Science
c) Computer Science that included 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours of course work in any combination of mathematics, statistics and computer science with at least half of those hours in mathematics and statistics courses that included differential and integral calculus.

If you did not complete a qualifying bachelor's degree, you may be eligible if you have obtained a graduate degree in an AST qualifying field, as listed above.

Degrees in engineering technology are not considered qualifying for this position.

Engineering degrees earned within the United States: Engineering degrees earned within the United States must be from a college or university that has at least one ABET accredited engineering program. To find out if a school has at least one ABET accredited program, please visit http://www.abet.org.

Engineering degrees earned outside the United States: Engineering degrees earned outside the United States must be recognized by a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA), often known as accords. These are non-governmental agreements among organizations that accredit academic degree programs. MRAs recognize the substantial equivalence of mature accreditation systems and programs accredited by signatory organizations within their jurisdictions. For a listing of Signatories, please visit, https://www.abet.org/global-presence/mutual-recognition-agreements/is-your-program-recognized/.

Science and other related degrees earned within the United States: Science and other related degrees must have been awarded from colleges or universities that are accredited by recognized accrediting organizations. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, go to http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.

Science and other related degrees earned outside the United States: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

All degrees must have been received in the year of, or any year subsequent to the original date of accreditation.

Contacts

• Address Johnson Space Center 2101 NASA Parkway Houston, TX 77058 US
• Name: NASA Shared Services Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-677-2123
• Email: [email protected]