Serves as Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Headquarters (HQ) Chief Information Officer (CIO) managing Information Technology (IT) Programs (Mission Programs and Institutional) in compliance with federal and agency statutes, regulations, policies, and procedures. Serves as a member of the Agency CIO Leadership and is accountable to the Center Director for IT operations at GSFC and HQ. Provides IT services to multiple NASA satellite locations. Occasional travel to Headquarters is expected.

Duties

The Chief Information Officer, Goddard Space Flight Center and Headquarters: Provides IT services to multiple NASA satellite locations, such as: NASA Headquarters, Goddard Space Flight Center, Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA's Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility, and other sites. Serves as a member of Office of Chief Information Officer (OCIO) senior leadership, defining objectives, frameworks, and metrics for IT strategic planning process and establishing ownership and timelines for associated planning steps. Collaborates with center and local mission leadership to inform and implement the NASA IT strategy. Collaborates with agency-level offices to provide input and implementation of agency architectural roadmaps and compliance standards, digital and data transformation activities, as well as addressing center-specific customer requirements. Engages Center leadership and customers to communicate and coordinate enterprise IT changes that underpin success in service delivery, while enabling mission success. Advises and partners with stakeholders on new technologies to enable the mission. This includes facilitating continuous alignment of project investments and initiatives with a business strategy based on mission needs, resource capacity constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies. Identifies and develops partnerships and acquisition opportunities to launch and distribute new cross-cutting digital products and services. Collaborates and works with Agency OCIO and center stakeholders to identify service improvement and innovation opportunities as well as ensuring customer requirements are incorporated into OCIO service roadmaps. Oversees the Center OCIO organization to meet strategic planning, budget management, communication, and functional coordination goals. Collaborates with the OCIO and other Center executives to define investment and coordination mechanisms for cross-cutting digital product development capabilities and identify shared resources to improve synergies and cost-efficiency. Monitors service and product delivery to ensure customer requirements are satisfied effectively. Maintains a local strategy to communicate and coordinate service changes with customers. Contributes to OCIO goals for talent development, retention, diversity, and inclusion. This includes overseeing a strategic Center workforce plan development and implementation to maximize the current and future workforce's effectiveness in support of agency and OCIO strategic business priorities, including analyzing trends and business strategy to forecast critical skills, emerging skills, and resource gaps. Develops IT leaders building strategic partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to enable digital transformation. Oversees planning and implementation of IT management training initiatives, IT skills analysis, and job description updates. Leads the Center OCIO team along with the associated procurement and travel budget. 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. 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 leading an information technology (IT) services organization to deliver a broad array of IT products and services to customers/stakeholders. This includes experience in developing, implementing, and executing cohesive IT strategic and tactical plans, performance, and accountability. MTQ 2- Demonstrated experience in the development, implementation, and management of IT strategies and initiatives to adopt new IT solutions and meet evolving business requirements.

Education

No Educational Requirement.

Contacts

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