This is a Senior Executive Service Tier 2 position. Salaries for Tier 2 positions range from $151,322 - $217,000. This position is in the Senior Executive Service, a small elite group of top government leaders. SES members possess a diverse portfolio of experiences including strong skills to lead across organizations. As an executive, you will influence the direction of innovation and transformation of the federal government and lead the next generation of public servants

Duties

As the MDA Program Executive for Advanced Capabilities and Technology, some of the major duties included are: Leading the MDA in anticipating and responding to threat challenges using a dynamic, world-class team of scientists, engineers and phenomenologists from government, industry, and academia to achieve an assured, robust and responsive capability-based missile defense system. Overseeing the directorate staff to ensure efficient operations, and operating as an expert in technical and programmatic aspects of missile defense advancements. Maintaining currency in the ballistic missile threat, the MDS state of the art development, and the most challenging countermeasure and performance issues affecting the MDS. Networking with US National laboratories, academia, international laboratories, and global industry. As the senior advisor to the Director, MDA, on advanced systems, concepts and innovations, the incumbent provides authoritative and technically refined recommendations on all related functional, operational, and management activities. Develops and improves decision and discrimination algorithms supporting the MOS and develops decision architecture for implementing the next generation MOS Battle Management Command and Control. Defines and formulates battlefield learning and adaptation capabilities. Conceptualizes, plans, and leads Advanced Concept Studies that focus on the vision of the MDA mission and advanced capabilities necessary to sustain the evolution of the missile defense program. Directs and oversees the technical and engineering evaluation and analyses of all proposed advanced concepts and innovative research and engineering technology programs in such diverse areas as materials , kinetic energy, propulsion , directed energy, electronics, sensors, manufacturing/ production, thermal management, lethality, computer technologies, superconductivity, and other unique efforts and opportunities that present themselves as having applicability to the full scope of MDA acquisition programs. Provides direction and oversight over the operations and management of the directorate, including civilian and military personnel management and financial management. Engages on behalf of the Director, MDA, in a variety of high level forums and routinely interacts with the senior executives and general/ flag officers within the Department of Defense, as well as with senior executives from the National labs, industry, media representatives, academia, foreign officials, and members of Congress. Participates in the MOS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) evaluation process to identify engineering, technical, and product innovations that have potential for advancing MDA programs. Coordinates information sharing processes, research and development activities, and evaluates technologies available or being developed through small business research and development activities. Facilitates small business participation in the Federal research and development arena to convert highly innovative, high risk technologies, which develop new or advanced scientific and engineering concepts into established technology, which can be integrated into MDA Directorates, essential to the fulfillment of the overall MDA mission. Evaluates all proposed advanced concepts (internally and externally generated) for potential application or integration into existing or developmental MDA programs and acquisition initiatives. Determines feasibility, engineering maturity and cost implications. Provides direction and oversight to all personnel management and human resource planning activities and actions within the directorate.

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
• Veteran preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service
• Must be able to obtain/maintain Special Sensitive/Top Secret SCI clearance
• Designated and/or random drug testing is required
• Supplemental narrative addressing each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) - 10 pages total
• Supplemental narrative 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

Qualifications

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): Applicants must submit written statements (narrative format ) describing accomplishments that would satisfy the ECQs. You must address each ECQ separately. You are required to respond to all ECQs. If you fail to do so, you will be rated as 'ineligible.' Additional information on the ECQs is available at www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp. Each accomplishment should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed, and results of your actions. Please limit your written statements to two pages per ECQ. 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. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQ): All applicants must submit written statements (narrative format) of accomplishments that would satisfy the technical qualifications. You must address each technical qualification separately. Please limit your written statements to 2 pages per technical qualification. Comprehensive knowledge and proven technical and managerial expertise required to provide oversight and direct all activities associated with ensuring successful execution of weapon systems advanced technology and rapid acquisition, including a demonstrated ability to work with the warfighter community to develop and codify operational and joint requirements. In depth knowledge of DOD acquisition practices and policies, directives, regulations, and public laws as applied to Joint and combined weapons systems acquisition programs. This includes expert knowledge of the technological, procurement, and acquisition processes that go into major DOD weapons programs comprised of multiple systems and organizations. Proven skill and demonstrated ability to develop program execution activities and mastery of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process. Ability to represent the organization and engage in technical interchange activities with industry, other government agencies, or international organizations regarding advanced technology concepts, operational demonstrations and rapid prototyping.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this position.

Individual Occupational Requirements:

A. Degree: 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.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience - college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise.

Contacts

• Address Missile Defense Agency Bldg 5222 Martin Rd Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898 US
• Name: DE Applicant Inquires
• Phone: 614-692-0420
• Email: DEApplicantInquiries@dla.mil