This position serves as the Deputy Director, Nuclear Enterprise Directorate (NE), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The Nuclear Enterprise Directorate (NE) provides capabilities that enable DoD Warfighters, Interagency stakeholders, allies and partners to ensure a credible U.S. nuclear deterrent force and counter threat networks.

Duties

The Deputy Director, NE performs the following major functions: Reviews and evaluates an annual program effort in excess of $220 million to establish a holistic approach to operational and strategic matters related to the Nation's nuclear deterrent in areas of nuclear weapons safety, security, accountability, reliability and inspection, enabling solutions and DoD responses to nuclear matters and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners. Evaluates DoD and DTRA policies and directives and advises on actions necessary to establish the framework of NE guidance and procedures. Provides for the control, coordination, and continuity of NE programs and operations by developing operational plans, vetting with the Combatant Commands and DoD and Department of Energy offices regarding deployed force planning efforts, integrating intra- departmental and inter-agency plans and products, and requirements for contracting, facilities, funding, personnel, equipment. Exercises coordinating authority for NE input to the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process to ensure transparency of and accountability for all NE investment activities. Manages and approves the development of plans that effectively translate objectives into specific work programs. Interprets directives and orders from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, the Director, DTRA, and other agencies to ensure objectives and requirements are met. Directs the preparation and establishment of internal NE IPRs or working groups, inter-agency agreements and similar directives having unusual significance and application. Oversees the transfer, transition, or termination of NE-sponsored software applications, services or capabilities to the Services in support of Combatant Command requirements when necessary. Manages the overall responsibilities and objectives of the NE mission. Ensures prompt responses are provided to Combatant Command's for urgent and emerging nuclear deterrent requirements, DTRA, DoD Chief Information Officer-directed assessments and Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Sustainment-directed operational needs, and theater requests for NE support. Serves as the authority for all key leader NE engagements including those within DoD, the intelligence community, the U.S. interagency, foreign partners, and with Congressional staff. Ensures an effective, economical organization structure, manpower requirements and functional breakdown and an effective workload distribution ensuring full utilization of personnel skills and abilities in consonance with programmed and Talent Management objectives. Manages implementation of concepts, policy guidance, and critical operations for national continuity-related activities for the Directorate. Serves as an advisor to the Nuclear Weapons Council for DoD-level analysis efforts of U.S. nuclear force structure, support requirement, posture, plans and capabilities in meeting national security requirements. Serves as a member of the Compartmentalized Activities Council managing, executing, or implementing requirements stemming from Presidential Directives concerning the command and control, safety, security and use control issues. Serves as the DTRA representative on nuclear specific problems and engages in discussions and negotiations with a variety of interdepartmental parties to include the Nuclear Weapons Council Standing and Safety Committee, Mission Assurance Senior Steering Group, Council on Oversight of the National Command, Control, and Communications System) and other related sub-groups and review panels as established by the Executive Branch. Provides recommendations and suitable alternatives to resolve conflicts impacting the Services and may require changes in government spending and/or policies. Manages strategic and counter-WMD operational capability employment to resolve nationally important issues on the development and sustainment of key nuclear and counter-WMD operational capabilities and cyber support activities. Exercises coordination authority for the Critical Infrastructure Defense Analysis Center within the DoD, U.S. Interagency, U.S. Defense Industrial Base entities, and commercial partners in support of the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Defense Continuity and Mission Assurance direction. Directs and assesses U.S. reliance on commercial support.

Requirements

• Work Schedule: Full Time.
• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply).
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation. Must be able to obtain/maintain Special Sensitive/Top Secret SCI clearance.
• Veteran preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service.
• Subject to the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes in addition to 5 CFR 2638.103, Government Ethics Responsibilities of Supervisors.
• Designated and/or random drug testing is required.
• Supplemental narratives addressing each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) - 10 pages total.
• Supplemental narratives addressing each Technical Qualification (TQ) - 2 pages each maximum.
• Mobility Agreement: All newly appointed Career SES leaders must sign the Reassignment Rights obligations Agreement as a condition of appointment into the SES.
• Probationary Period: You will serve a one-year Senior Executive Service (SES) probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.
• Financial Disclosure: Senior Executives are required to comply with the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act, PL 95-521, which requires the submission of a financial disclosure statement (OGE-278), upon assuming an SES position.
• Senior Executives are required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment," (OF 306), prior to being appointed to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background check.
• Overtime: None.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt.
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule.
• Telework: Situational telework eligible.
• Travel to national and international locations is required, to include official travel into hazardous duty zones.

Qualifications

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): ECQs must not exceed ten pages. The ECQs are: ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: This core qualification involves 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: This core qualification involves 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: This core qualification involves 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: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: This core qualification involves 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. SPECIAL NOTE: Current and former career SES members or graduates of a SES Candidate Development Program who have been certified by Office of Personnel Management are not required to address the ECQs; however, you must address the Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) statements for consideration for this position. (All other applicants must submit all required documentation). MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): You must submit separate narrative statements that address each of the MTQs related specifically to this position. Your narrative statements should include specific examples of your experience, education, and accomplishments, applicable to this position. Your narrative statements must not exceed two pages for each MTQ. 1. Extensive experience in program formulation, defense, and execution to include all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution cycle or an equivalent large-scale budgeting system. 2. Demonstrated experience in successfully leading, managing and directing the execution and/or implementation of requirements stemming from Presidential Directives concerning the Nuclear Weapons Council or Nuclear Command and Control System and the Committee of Principals on command and control, safety, security and use control issues through oversight of subordinate organizations, and coordination and interaction of activities with a wide variety of Federal and private organizations, nationally and internationally. 3. Extensive experience with the Department of Defense Mission Assurance process to include Mission Assurance Control Board matters concerning the properly prioritized and assessed critical nuclear defense infrastructure deficiencies and limitations, both on Department of Defense reservations and externally in the Continental United States and allied territories. Failure to comply with the specific instructions as stated in this announcement will result in an ineligible rating and removal from further consideration for this position.

Education

This position has a positive educational requirement with a Degree in Engineering. 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.

Contacts

• Address Defense Threat Reduction Agency 8725 JOHN J KINGMAN ROAD MSC 6201 FT BELVOIR, VA 22060-6201 US
• Name: Lisa Shipe
• Phone: (571) 616-5285
• Email: [email protected]