NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Computer Scientist, ZP-1550-V to join our team! This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

Duties

This position serves as an Associate Director to ITL Director working with ITL management to drive and maintain a strategic focus of the Lab for IT voluntary consensus standards (VCS) and associated conformity assessment (CA) activities. Provides a focal point for interactions with industry, government, and international communities on VCS and CA. Supports ITL management for program planning, implementation, and review. Ensures clear communications within NIST on ITL VCS and CA plans and activities. Maintains the NIST ITL standards developer accreditation by ANSI. Leads Voluntary Standards Office team.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure, Form OGE-450
• Bargaining Unit Position: No

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions. In addition to the above basic requirements, applicants must have one year (52 weeks) of the specialized experience at the GS-14 level (ZP-IV at NIST). The specialized experience is defined as experience in standards development and dissemination of standards. Evidence of leadership in standards development process and organizations at the national and international level. Experience with national technical and standards efforts in local, state, and Federal government efforts. Experience in advising, planning, or managing multi-million-dollar technical programs or policies. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done. We will credit all qualifying volunteer experience in your application. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. Applicant Reconsideration

Education

This position has an education requirement. Transcripts must be submitted to validate that the education requirement has been met. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. However, an official copy will be required prior to a final offer of employment.

Education completed outside of the U.S. must be evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that it is comparable to education received in accredited institutions in the U.S. Click here to view a listing of accredited organizations from the Department of Education's website. A copy of the foreign education evaluation (containing the results with a course by course listing) is required with your application.

Contacts

• Address Information Technology Laboratory 100 Bureau Drive Building 225/Room B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Tiffani Brown
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]