Duties

Summary

The Deputy Associate Administrator for Management reports to the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at NASA Headquarters. This incumbent oversees STMD organizational operations including financial resources, human resources, strategic communications; serves as strategic advisor and council to the AA and creates organizational relationships internal and external to NASA; and oversees strategic communications, industry, and legislative relations.
Learn more about this agency

Responsibilities

• Serves as strategic advisor and council to the AA and creates organizational relationships internal and external to NASA, enabling STMD leadership success.
• Supports the AA, in partnership with STMD support and program offices, in providing overall strategy and guidance for strategic communications, advocacy, and budget for NASA's space technology programs.
• Strategically manages STMD leadership engagements, evaluates opportunities, and determines priorities. Oversees internal and external strategic communications, and drafting of speeches and presentations for STMD leadership.
• Oversees STMD organizational operations including financial resources, human resources, procurement, strategic communications, and facilities functions.
• Recommends strategic priorities to STMD leadership by identifying focus areas for their attention. Oversees information flow and recommends timing of STMD leadership involvement in the decision-making process.
• Oversees STMD strategic communications, advocacy, industry relations, educational activities, legislative relations, and advisory committees. Develops agendas and creates pertinent information packages leading to successful outcomes.
• Plans, coordinates, and evaluates processes concerned with STMD strategic planning, policy, resources, strategic communications, human resources, and management.
• Oversees STMD operations including information technology systems, administrative functions, records management, floor space management, process development, archiving of vital technical data, web management, and travel systems.
• Ensures strategic business processes are in place to effectively plan and implement the STMD mission. Serves as the primary liaison between the STMD and NASA institutional offices at Headquarters.
• Provides leadership in the development and implementation of both long and short range plans necessary to achieve Agency and STMD goals and objectives, including the definition of performance targets and goals.

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.
• Successful completion of a security investigation will be required.

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:

1. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in organizational operations including financial resources, human resources, procurement, communications, and facilities functions for aerospace large technology programs and projects.

2. Demonstrated knowledge and experience as strategic advisor for communications and advocacy, industry relations, and legislative strategies for large aerospace technology programs.

3. Demonstrated knowledge and experience in developing and managing cross-agency forums, advisory committees, and ability to represent the STMD in such venues.

4. Demonstrated abilities to manage teams with diverse skills and functions to provide effective management support services to a technical organization, such as human resources, information technologies, management systems, web-site operations, facilities management, and travel services.

Education

No education requirement.

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.