You will serve as the Risk and External Partnerships Coordinator to develop risk mitigation processes and assist with the partnerships and agreements process. You will work to identify and assess infrastructural and technical risks, integrate risk mitigation options, and associated costs. You will also prepare risk reports and presentations, work to maintain awareness and inventory of potential partnership and agreement opportunities, and integrate status reports.

Duties

Serve critical role to develop the Engineering Risk Mitigation Strategy, responsible for working with Divisions to identify engineering technical and infrastructure risks. Responsible for knowing the technical implications of risks and potential impacts to Program Customers. Responsible for understanding a wide array of mechanical, electrical, environmental, structural, and systems engineering impacts. Perform cost-benefit analysis, generate options and cost estimates to mitigate risks. Coordinate risk reporting by performing periodic risk assessments and reports for the Technical, Cost, Schedule, and Risk (TCSR) Reviews. Utilize the Project Oriented Management Information System (PrOMIS) tool. Prepare reports, communications packages, and present at the Integrated Infrastructure Review (IIR) and the Integrated Risk Review (IRR). Maintain awareness and understanding of Agency, Center, and Directorate risk management policies and recommend best practices and improved processes for managing Directorate risks. Create and maintain a tool of Engineering external partnerships that provides insight to current and future partnership opportunities, their funding profile, and participating customers. Integrate, document, and disseminate Engineering’s partnership and agreement commitments process to stakeholders. Prepare reports for Directorate leadership, management forums, and reviews. Apply awareness of Partnerships office agreements processes to ensure signatures are occurring in a timely manner. Attend External Partnerships Forum.

Requirements

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• This position may require a one year probationary period.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. 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-13, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the federal sector: Presenting to multiple stakeholders, especially Senior Management, customer stakeholders, and point-of-service providers; Providing technical advice or support through cost estimate development, reporting, strategy development, and presentations with utilization of tools such as Microsoft Excel and PowerBI; and Providing project management through business functions such as; Generating cost controls, implementing funding limits, generating and understanding client and partner needs (client relations), or financial processes (i.e. new project/program scope, understanding pricing elements, asset management, cost management, market value assessment, or value trade analysis). 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]