Duties

Summary

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of Information Technology and Communication reports to the NASA Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Center Director (CD) and serves as the CIO at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with responsibility for ensuring that Center information resources are managed in compliance with Federal and Agency policies and procedures.
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Responsibilities

• Ensures that the Center's investments in IT are in alignment with the Agency's Information Resources Management (IRM) Strategic Plan and that the Center complies with the NASA Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process.
• Represents the Center as a member of the NASA CIO Board, and is responsible for integrating, verifying, and communicating the Center's requirements, issues, and concerns on Agency-wide matters under Board consideration.
• Serves as the Director of the IT and Communications Directorate and as such manages a range of information systems and services to support Center programmatic, engineering, scientific, and administrative functions for the GSFC.
• Manages organizational functions and efforts, including contract management, technology development, organizational planning and staffing, human capital management, and other senior management functions as assigned.
• Defines Center wide support process requirements and implementing cost effective solutions that enable the Center?s science, engineering, and flight program/project community to meet Center mission requirements.
• Provides long-range planning for meeting Center requirements for information resources and management systems, IT security, software engineering technologies, administrative and technical management information.
• Provides technical management and direction to the associated hardware, software, and information systems contractors; developing and implementing project management activities associated with these functions.

Travel Required

Occasional travel - Travel may be required for training or other work-related duties

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
00

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• A financial disclosure statement is required upon appointment into the SES.
• First time SES appointees are subject to a one-year probationary period.
• This is a drug-testing designated position
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation

Qualifications

To qualify, candidates must have the skill and ability to perform the duties described above as demonstrated by progressively responsible supervisory/managerial experience, normally with several years at the GS-15 level or equivalent, which demonstrates clearly the ability to manage people and resources.

Candidates must also demonstrate qualifications in the managerial and technical areas noted below. See the SES Handbook and NASA's Guide to Effectively Preparing Executive Core Qualifications for more information. IMPORTANT: CANDIDATES MUST FULLY ADDRESS ALL ITEMS UNDER EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS AS WELL AS ALL ITEMS UNDER TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU COMPLETE YOUR ANSWERS OFF-LINE IN ADVANCE OF BEGINNING THE APPLICATION PROCESS, SO THAT YOU CAN INSERT THEM INTO THE ELECTRONIC FORM. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT SAVED.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Leading Change - Involves the ability to bring about strategic change, within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

2. Leading People - Involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organizations vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

3. Results Driven - Involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

4. Business Acumen - Involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions - 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 QUESTIONS:

1. Describe your demonstrated success in leading a large, complex, IT services organization in the efficient, consistent high-quality delivery of a broad array of products and services including infrastructure management, enterprise applications, governance and architecture, cybersecurity, and portfolio management.

2. Describe your demonstrated success in leading entity-wide IT transformation initiatives including organizational and IT delivery model changes that reduce cost and/or improve service/security in an environment of diverse platforms, applications and technologies.

3. Describe your specialized experience in working with mission/business partners to formulate and oversee a comprehensive, integrated, and effective cybersecurity Program necessary to improve an organization's cybersecurity posture. This includes providing information security protections and utilizing a risk-based approach.

Education

There are no education requirements for this position.

Additional information

To receive consideration, you must submit a resume and answer NASA-specific questions. The NASA questions appear after you submit your resume and are transferred to the NASA web site. If you successfully apply, USAJOBS will show your application status as 'Received'. If your status is 'Application Status Not Available', you have not successfully applied. Do not rely on a USAJOBS email to confirm successful application. Only an email from NASA confirms a successful application.

Any applicant tentatively selected for this position may be required to undergo a pre-employment background investigation. This announcement is for a career appointment to a position in the NASA Senior Executive Service (SES). Persons entering the SES for the first time are subject to a one-year probationary period. A financial disclosure statement is required upon appointment into the SES. This statement will be used to avoid conflicting situations in employment through advice and counseling. Your USAJOBS account asks you to assign a name to each of your resumes. When you apply to a NASA position, we will show you the text of the resume you have submitted, but we do not maintain the name you have assigned to that resume. If you wish to keep track of that information, we recommend you make note of it at the time you apply.

Fair Employment Opportunities for Applicants
NASA Credit for National Service

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Applicants will be evaluated by an Executive Resources Panel based on the managerial and technical qualification requirements stated in this announcement. Eligible candidates will be placed in qualified and highly-qualified categories. Interviews, and qualification and suitability inquiries may be requested. The highly-qualified will be referred to the appropriate official who will recommend selection.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Sensitive Compartmented Information

Drug test required
Yes

Required Documents

NASA's application process has been specifically developed to ensure that we only ask you for the information we absolutely need to evaluate your qualifications and eligibility. In order to apply for this position, you need to submit your resume and answer the screening questions and supplemental information. You must also respond to both the Executive Core Qualifications (Managerial Qualifications) and the Technical Qualifications. No additional documentation is accepted at the time of application. In this way we allow you to focus on preparing a resume that best describes your background and abilities. For assistance in preparing your resume, consult the Applicant Guide . Nothing further is required unless we make you an employment offer. At that point, we may ask you to submit documentation to support statements made in your resume. For example, we may ask you to provide academic transcripts or proof of Federal employment status. If you fail to provide the required documents within the stated time period, we may use that as a basis for withdrawing our employment offer.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.