The incumbent serves as Director, Office of Procurement for the NASA's Shared Services Center (NSSC) and Stennis Space Center (SSC). Responsibilities include planning, budgeting, directing, executing, and coordinating procurement actions. Also responsible for the standardization of contracting efforts and coordinating resources across multiple centers, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders.

Duties

The Director, Office of Procurement: The incumbent reports directly to the NASA Assistant Administrator (AA) for Procurement and is a key member of the senior management team. Oversees and manages the NSSC/SSC Contract portfolio. The current Contract portfolio annual obligations exceed $2.1 billion with 18.4K annual actions. Responsible for leading and managing the overall procurement activities, including planning and implementing acquisition strategies, issuing solicitations, conducting negotiations, processing awards, and administering contracts for programs/projects as well as local and enterprise-wide institutional portfolio contracting activity. Manages a geographically dispersed Shared Services Contracting Organization (Working Capital Funded). Also, manages and executes financial assistance agreements (such as grants and cooperative agreements) for the NASA enterprise, approximately ~$1.5B annually and 10,000 actions. Manages and executes the Agency Enterprise Purchase card program and Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) contracting organization. Ensures compliance with federal laws related to contracting; and procurement actions comply with appropriate statutes, regulations, policies, and practices. Collaborates with other mission support directorates and shares best practices with the Federal Government. Serves as principal advisor to senior management officials for contracting and procurement matters while operating under policy guidance and direction of the NASA Assistant Administrator for Procurement. Develops and monitors procurement policies and procedures, ensures competition is fostered in all acquisitions, and minimizes vulnerability to fraud, waste, and abuse. Appoints warranted Contracting Officers and ensures the Center Contracting Officer Representatives are compliant with training and certification requirements, properly appointed, and effectively performing their delegated contract administration functions. Provides procurement expertise and oversight to Source Evaluation Boards (SEBs) on major acquisitions, conducts industry briefings, and serves on Award Fee Determination Boards. Develops a wide variety of acquisition strategies for a complex procurement portfolio. This includes leading and managing complex multi-billion dollar acquisitions; and establishing, evaluating, and measuring contract performance, program control, and compliance of the acquisitions. Leads and manages a complex, multi-organizational procurement program. This includes assessing the health of the organization, formulating organizational objectives and priorities, enhancing organizational effectiveness and efficiency, and implementing plans to meet the acquisition requirements of an Agency or program. Fosters and continually drives a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence, and innovation within and outside of the organization and NASA. Champions the Agency's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and creates an environment and culture that promotes and enables the Agency's commitment to safety, inclusion, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.

Requirements

• The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report' (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
• Initial Senior Executive Service (SES) Career appointee is subject to a one-year probationary period.
• Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of pre-employment and random drug testing may be required.
• Must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

You must have the skill and ability to perform the duties described above as demonstrated by progressively responsible supervisory/leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent. To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you MUST address each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) and Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) separately. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. We recommend you provide two (2) examples of relevant experience for each ECQ. Responses to ALL ECQs must not exceed ten (10) pages; MTQ responses must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Please include your full name on all documents submitted. If you are currently serving under a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES, or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) you MUST submit a resume and in a separate document address the MTQs. Any ECQs submitted will not be considered. Your resume must clearly state that you are a current career SES, eligible for reinstatement, or SES CDP certified and year of certification. When preparing your responses to the ECQs and MTQs, you are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result model outlined in the OPM's Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification. For a sample template on how to format your ECQ narrative visit NASA's Executive Leadership Opportunities. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS: ECQ 1 - Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 - Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. ECQ 4 - Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS: MTQ 1 - Demonstrated experience in leading and managing a complex acquisition and procurement portfolio. This includes executing complex multi-billion dollar acquisitions; and establishing metrics, evaluating, and measuring contract performance, program control, and compliance of the acquisitions. MTQ 2 - Demonstrated experience in managing/leading an enterprise shared services contracting organization (preferably geographically dispersed). This includes management and execution of grants and cooperative agreements, research contracts (such as SBIR/STTR), simplified acquisition, and Agency-level contracts and purchase-card program execution.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement. To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university.

A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.

Acquisition Certification: To be eligible for this position, your resume MUST state whether you currently or previously had a Federal Acquisition Certification. Applicants must possess or be able to fulfill the requirements for the Federal Acquisition Certification-Contracting (FAC-C) Level 3 or Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement act (DAWIA) Level 3 certification.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR 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 credential evaluation service 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, click here.

Contacts

• Address NASA Shared Services Center 1111 Jerry Hlass Road Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 US
• Name: NASA Executive Staffing
• Email: [email protected]