This position is part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The incumbent will be responsible for establishing goals, organizes, directs, and defends integrated science and technology programs. Supervises the development of research goals and objectives for the Directorate's basic research program consistent with Agency strategies and vision. Supports strategic planning for the Directorate and the Agency.

Duties

As a INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICAL SCIENTIST/GENERAL ENGINEER at the GS-0801/1301-13/14 some of your typical work assignments may include: Sets the standard for others to follow; as leader of the group, is virtually self-supervisory. Ensures that senior leadership is advised at regular intervals on progress and any issues. Coordinates basic research efforts with matrixed program managers across other RD Departments, ensuring a consistent and comprehensively executed program. Implements the Directorate's C-WMD basic research program through the management and oversight of individual projects and tasks. Formulates overall program objectives, recommending resource allocation among science and technology areas to best meet the program objectives, providing necessary documentation, justification, and procurement information for resource awards, establishing priorities and milestones, and monitoring progress of individual projects. Oversees processes associated with the evaluation of white papers and full proposals submitted to the Agency for consideration as part of the Counter-WMD Basic Research Program. Makes technical decisions with regard to individual project directions, modifies plans and milestones as appropriate, and makes necessary adjustments among and within research tasks so as to optimize program productivity as measured in terms of establishing the technical viability of options for future Agency and DoD efforts. Ensures the protection of assigned project funds by rigorous attention to contracting and spending plans and guidelines and the transition of products and results to appropriate customers in the Agency and DoD. Reorients programs as necessary to meet exceptionally important new and/or changed national policies and goals to overcome unforeseen difficulties and/or unsatisfactory results. Maintains frequent contact with appropriate scientists and engineers at DoE laboratories, DoD warfare centers, federal basic research funding activities such as NSF, ONR, AFOSR, ARO, and DARPA, universities, and industry. Serves as a source of science and technology information (subject-matter expert) in the field and has frequent interactions with Agency research customers and senior officials in the DoD and other offices in order to coordinate, evaluate, integrate, and facilitate transition of Agency science and technology products and thus maximize their impact on DoD operating and support forces of the future. Translates and communicates complex scientific concepts into clearly understood options and opportunities for senior Agency and DoD management officials. Seeks opportunities for joint basic and applied research. Provides scientific expertise/input to the Director and other Agency management, driving multimillion dollar investments by senior agency leaders. Participates with Agency, DoD, Federal, and other activities to formulate Agency, DoD, and national science and technology needs. Conducts or represents the Agency at Interagency, Congressional, or international meetings involving technical and political issues. In order to enhance and maintain professional currency, competence, and standing in the field(s) of program management and science and technology impacting the incumbent's assigned program area, attends national and international technical conferences, workshops and research reviews and as applicable, devotes time to personal research and professional development.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Travel (up to 30%) required CONUS/OCONUS. Valid Passport required.
• Work Schedule: Full-time
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: Authorized - https://www.dtra.mil/Careers-Opportunities/DTRA-Opportunities/
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information Security Clearance based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) and Atomic Energy Act Information RESTRICTED DATA.
• SSBI must be favorably completed or updated within the last five years.
• Subject to pre-employment drug testing and random drug testing required thereafter.
• This is an Acquisition Workforce position in the Engineering and Technical Management functional area. The incumbent will be required to become certified in the Practitioner tier within 5 years.
• The incumbent is required to acquire a minimum of 40 continuous learning points (CLPs) every fiscal year as a goal and 80 CLPs being mandatory within 2 years.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the GS14, if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Significant experience leading science and technology (S&T) program(s), particularly with regard to countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) research. Significant experience executing a research program to effectively achieve organization's S&T strategy. Experience with developing and executing a budget, to include forecasting future budgetary needs. Significant experience working with a variety of S&T stakeholders working at government agencies, federal and non-federal research facilities, and academic institutions. You may qualify at the GS 13, if you fulfill the following qualifications: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service as listed below: Experience contributing to science and technology (S&T) programs, with limited leadership roles, particularly with regard to countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD) research. Familiarity with how a research program is executed in order to effectively achieve organization's S&T strategy. Knowledge of budgeting and budget planning. Experience working with professionals from a variety of S&T backgrounds, to include researchers, professionals, and other S&T program managers. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0801/1301, series as listed below: For the Engineering Series. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1 , or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. 2. Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. 4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.). General Physical Science Series, 1301 Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. Or Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours that your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: 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 and such education has been 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

Contacts

• Address Defense Threat Reduction Agency 8725 JOHN J KINGMAN ROAD MSC 6201 FT BELVOIR, VA 22060-6201 US
• Name: DTRA Servicing Team
• Phone: 614-692-0259
• Email: [email protected]