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The Deputy Manager, Human Exploration Development and Operations (HEDO) Office, assists the Manager in leading the implementation of the Center's work portfolio in the areas of Human Exploration and Transportation projects and tasks; habitation systems development; advanced life support systems development, payload and mission operations and integration; and International Space Station (ISS) payload, facility, and vehicle project development and integration.
Learn more about this agency09/22/2022 to 10/06/2022
$176,301 - $188,301 per year
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1 vacancy in the following location:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
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Full-time -
Senior Executive
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Current or former competitive service federal employees.
Current excepted service federal employees.
Those who meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
The area of consideration for this position is all groups of qualified individuals within the civil service, Senior Executive Service (SES) reinstatement eligible, and SES Candidate Development Program certified graduates with noncompetitive eligibility. A person is considered to be in the civil service only if occupying a civil service position at the time of application.
This position reports to the Manager, Human Exploration Development and Operations (HEDO) Office. The Deputy Manager, Human Exploration Development and Operations Office:
- Manages assigned programs, projects, and activities in support of NASA's human exploration objectives such as the development and formulation of habitation systems, support to the Gateway Program and Orion Project, engineering support to NASA's commercial human space flight endeavors and development of new cislunar systems. This includes managing Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) exploration tasks in support of other NASA Centers as well as maintaining executive and working level interfaces with human exploration customers.
- Manages development, operations, integration, sustaining engineering, and maintenance of Life Support Systems (LSS) for the International Space Station (ISS) leading to a cislunar LSS capability. Provides strategic and tactical leadership in formulating planning and teaming with other NASA Centers to achieve the cislunar system LSS development.
- Manages assigned programs, projects, and activities in support of NASA's utilization goals and objectives, such as ISS and Gateway Payload Facility development, operation, integration, and maintenance.
- Manages development of mission operations for flight and ground systems; planning and preparation of mission operations; implementation of mission support systems; and conduct of ground and flight operations. This includes providing key programmatic leadership to the ISS Program through the MSFC ISS Operations Cost Account Manager as well as managing and sustaining the Payload Operations and Integration capability within MSFC.
- Formulates new projects, concepts, and work plans to advance NASA's utilization goals for low earth orbit, cislunar space, and beyond.
- Develops, implements, and maintains strategic external partnerships consistent with the Agency's vision and MSFC's mission. These opportunities include commercial, other government agencies, academia, and international partners.
- Maintains executive-level interfaces with external customers and formulates, structures, and manages projects and tasks as needed to deliver products to partners.
- Partners with internal entities to identify opportunities to support NASA's human exploration objectives and external partners.
- As a recognized expert in the field of aerospace flight systems, serves as programmatic and technical advisor to the Center Director, other Agency officials, and senior managers across a wide spectrum of industrial and governmental institutions and international partners.
- Represents the HEDO Office on Agency actions, special studies, governmental audits, independent assessments and reviews, and meeting other performance reporting requirements. Also serves as chair or member of various panels, participates in conferences and working groups, and serves on technical committees as assigned.
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 bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science.
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.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
All qualifications requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
We will review your resume and required documents to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. If you meet the basic qualification requirements, your application will be evaluated based on your narrative statements addressing the ECQs and MTQs. Your application may then be referred to and evaluated by an Executive Resources Panel (ERP) and will be placed in one of the following categories: Not Qualified, Qualified, or Highly-qualified. Candidates may receive an interview and/or be asked to provide a list of references. The ERP 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. Only provide the following:
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. Limit your resume to 10 pages. If more than 10 pages are submitted, only the first 10 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
2. Executive Core Qualifications narrative responses, if applicable. Limit your response to 10 pages. If more than 10 pages are submitted, only the first 10 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
3. Mandatory Technical Qualifications narrative responses. Limit your response to 1 page per MTQ. If more than 1 page per MTQ is submitted, only the first pages for each MTQ will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
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, SES Candidate Development Program certificate, 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.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/678812800. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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