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NASA Headquarters' (HQ) Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) manages a robust safety culture program to include human factors, oversight, guidance, education, and engagement with employees, supervisors, and senior Agency leadership. OSMA's Senior Safety Culture and Human Factors Psychologist is the Agency's expert in safety culture and human factors.
Learn more about this agency11/18/2020 to 11/19/2020
$131,240 - $188,066 per year
SL 00
1 vacancy in the following location:
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Temporary Promotion - 3-5 years
Full-Time
Competitive
None
No
No
HQ-20-SL-10962927
584788400
This is open to current NASA civil service employees on career, career conditional, NASA term appointments with conversion eligibility, or other non-temporary appointments. A person is considered to be in the civil service only if occupying a civil service position at the time of application.
The Senior Safety Culture and Human Factors Psychologist:
- Serves as the Agency's most prominent psychologist.
- Functions in an advisory capacity to the Chief of OSMA and provides consulting services to top Agency officials to improve NASA safety culture and safety performance.
- Initiates and maintains contacts with high level officials in NASA, government, contractors, industrial firms, research laboratories, and educational institutions on best practices and pertinent developments in organizational and safety culture effectiveness.
- Develops, executes, and monitors a comprehensive Agency-wide program for safety culture advocacy, measurement, and improvement.
- Determines strategies to better manage the organizational, human, and communication challenges in the development and delivery of a multi-faceted, evolving Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) program with a goal of fostering SMA excellence throughout NASA.
- Develops and implements new theories and concepts to promote, measure, and improve NASA safety culture in support of safe and successful missions and operations.
- Develops, executes, and monitors a comprehensive Agency-wide program for human factors advocacy, measurement, and improvement.
- Determines strategies to better manage the organizational, human, and communication challenges in the development and delivery of a multi-faceted, evolving SMA program with a goal of fostering SMA discipline excellence throughout NASA.
- Develops and implements new theories and concepts to promote, measure, and improve human factors in support of safe and successful missions and operations.
A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in psychology or equivalent is required.
This position has a positive education requirement. To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, date degree awarded, and college/university.
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 private organization 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.
The selectee receives a temporary promotion and serves for a period of 3 to 5 years. Upon conclusion of the temporary promotion, the selectee will then return to an appropriate position at a grade level no lower than the grade previously held. This temporary promotion may be converted to a permanent appointment without further competition. This temporary promotion may be terminated at any time.
This position is full-time remote and the duties can be performed from anywhere. The candidate's duty station location will be determined after selection.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
All qualifications requirements must be met by 12/09/2020. You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Applicants that meet minimum eligibility requirements outlined in the Qualifications and Education (if applicable) sections of the vacancy announcement will be referred to a panel of subject matter experts for further evaluation. The panel reviews the resume and responses provided to the SL Evaluation Criteria, which are standard for all NASA SL opportunities, as outlined above. The panel evaluates the candidates' experience against each criteria and determines which candidates will be interviewed. The panel will make a recommendation to the appropriate approving authority.
You must provide a complete application package. If you do not provide all required information, you will not be considered for this position.
1. Resume showing relevant work experience (start/end dates stated in month/year, description of duties), applicable education at a minimum, and your contact information. For current or previous Federal employees, it should also include the Pay Plan, Series and Grade for each work experience entry. Your resumes must not exceed ten (10) pages or 32,000 characters.
2. SL Evaluation Criteria narrative responses.
You may be asked to provide additional documentation to support your eligibility and the information provided in your application package. For example, we may request transcripts, SF-50s, etc. Therefore, we encourage you to have these documents prepared and ready when requested by the agency. If you fail to provide the required documents within the stated time period, we may withdraw a job offer and/or remove you from further consideration.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section.
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration.
Although you may or may not be contacted during the selection process, we will always advise you about the outcome of the announcement. If you have questions, please feel free to contact NASA Executive Staffing at Agency-Executive-Staffing@mail.nasa.gov.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/584788400. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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