Serves as Director, Office of Procurement, for the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The Director reports directly to the NASA Assistant Administrator for Procurement and is a key member of the senior management team. Responsibilities include planning, budgeting, directing, executing, and coordinating procurement actions on behalf of the Office of Procurement.

Duties

The Director, Office of Procurement, Goddard Space Flight Center: Oversees the development and administration of the contract policy review function. This includes the review of contractual documents and procurement plans, compliance with procurement regulations and policy, and analysis of special programs. Leads and manages overall procurement activities for GSFC 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. Provides leadership and oversight of activities in support of planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining policies, procedures, and processes necessary to perform the acquisition functions required to support the Center's technical programs, projects, and institutions including the acquisition of supplies and services from International Partners. Collaborates with other mission support directorates and shares best practices with the federal government resulting in a direct savings to NASA. 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. Appoints warranted Contracting Officers and ensures Contracting Officer Representatives are compliant with training and certification requirements, properly appointed, and effectively performing their delegated contract administration functions. Oversees acquisition activities including program plan development; source board evaluations and selections; contract pricing, negotiation, review, award, and administration; and award and administration of funded Space Act Agreements. This includes all institutional and program contracts, procurement policy development and implementation, price and cost analysis, contract labor relations, and program review. Provides procurement expertise and oversight to Source Evaluation Boards on major acquisitions, conducts industry briefings, and serves on Award Fee Determination Boards. Develops and monitors procurement policies and procedures, ensures competition is fostered in all acquisitions, and minimizes vulnerability to fraud, waste, and abuse. Fosters and continually drives a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence, innovation within and outside of the organization and NASA. Champions the Agency's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility 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. Your application package must be in your own words. 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. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process. 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 (this means you were previously employed as a Career SES employee and you successfully completed a one-year probationary period), 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 developing a wide variety of acquisition strategies for a complex procurement portfolio. This includes leading and managing complex multibillion-dollar acquisitions and establishing, evaluating, and measuring contract performance, program control, and compliance of the acquisitions. MTQ 2 - Demonstrated experience leading and managing 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.

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 Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Rd Greenbelt, MD 20771 US
• Name: NASA Executive Staffing
• Email: [email protected]