As a Flight Systems Training and Operations Branch Chief within the Operations Division in the Flight Operations Directorate (FOD), you will serve as the directorate leader for crew on-orbit information technology and daily operations software tool support. You will lead a diverse team of experts to ensure the crews of NASA's manned missions effectively access with information across a variety of vehicles, devices, networks, and mission objectives to successfully accomplish their mission.

Duties

Manage the planning, training, and execution of real-time operations of flight controllers. This includes monitoring a number certified personnel and ensuring adequate staffing levels to support real-time mission requirements. Ensure adequate crew daily operations software tool development and integration is provided to ISS, Commercial Crew, Commercialization, Boeing CST-and Artemis Programs. Oversee software project management statuses and requirements definitions, communicate with stakeholders, and ensure execution of appropriate real-time troubleshooting actions. Report readiness for mission support via the Certification of Flight Readiness (CoFR) process to the CO/Operations Division and Flight Operations Directorate Flight Readiness Reviews (FRR) for Human Spaceflight Missions. Serve as a member of the Division Staff, contributing to managing overall division resources and strategies. Evaluate organization and employee accomplishments by accepting or rejecting work products; and presents and defends organization and employees work to senior management and other offices. Perform a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork.

Requirements

• You 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
• A one year supervisory probationary period may be required

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-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level. Providing oversight of a technical group which can include training and certification flows and/or managing work assignments and priorities, to meet program and directorate goals to ensure mission readiness; Leading a team to execute mission operations, training, or software development in support of human spaceflight missions; Providing assessment of mission readiness for human spaceflight missions, such as for a Flight Readiness Review. 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]