Director for Space Sustainability

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Wallops Island, Virginia, United States

$205-212k

Full Time

a year ago

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Job description

Duties

The Director for Space Sustainability:

Leads and represents NASA's orbital debris and space safety and sustainability equities and coordinates within the Agency, with other agencies, and internationally. Recommends and coordinates unified policies and guidance supporting space sustainability for the increasingly active space environment.
Provides technical guidance to NASA and other US government agencies/offices such as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Communications Commission. Collaborates across these key partners and other stakeholders (academia; international partners; industry) in support of space and environmental sustainability.
Evaluates complex regulatory and policy projects dealing with space safety regulations, including domestic and international regulations associated with space vehicle launch, operations, and deorbit, to ensure that regulations and policies are adopted that enable a sustainable and safe space environment.
Directs and coordinates specific investments related to orbital debris and sustainability, such as research, pilot projects, or demonstrations. Coordinates NASA operational space traffic management efforts to ensure operations are conducted safely and efficiently, avoiding collisions and radio frequency interference resulting from an increasingly congested space environment.
Engages with Mission Directorates on specific activities to further NASA's work in space sustainability. Implements such activities through their own organization, builds long-term capabilities, and effectively aligns Agency programs to national priorities.
Supports the creation of U.S. Government Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices, upon which some regulations are based as well as the creation of NASA requirements to guide mission development, enforce sustainability policies across the board to include international agreements and domestic partnerships and procurements.
Chairs the Space Environment Sustainability Advisory Board (SESAB) which serves as the Agency's integration body. The SESAB advises the implementing organizations and NASA senior leadership by providing a combined perspective across orbital debris, conjunction assessment, and space situational awareness.
Facilitates collaboration between Agency leadership, Mission Directorates, key functional offices, and other internal stakeholders as necessary to ensure effective execution of a policy strategy.
Provides leadership for a dispersed workforce of experts in the field of space sustainability and safety, mitigation and remediation, space traffic coordination and orbital debris, and oversees policies and initiatives to ensure the growth, training, and development of all assigned employees.
Fosters and continually drives a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence, innovation within and outside of the organization and NASA. Champions the Agency's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and creates an environment and culture that promotes and enables the Agency's commitment to safety, inclusion, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report' (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
Initial Senior Executive Service (SES) Career appointee is subject to a one-year probationary period.
Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
Successful completion of pre-employment and random drug testing may be required.
Must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

You must have the skill and ability to perform the duties described above as demonstrated by progressively responsible supervisory/leadership experience, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent.

Your application package must be in your own words. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement, or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process.

To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you MUST address each Executive Core Qualification (ECQ) and Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) separately. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. We recommend you provide two (2) examples of relevant experience for each ECQ. Responses to ALL ECQs must not exceed ten (10) pages; MTQ responses must not exceed one (1) page per MTQ. Please include your full name on all documents submitted.

If you are currently serving under a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES (this means you were previously employed as a Career SES employee and you successfully completed a one-year probationary period), or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) you MUST submit a resume and in a separate document address the MTQs. Any ECQs submitted will not be considered. Your resume must clearly state that you are a current career SES, eligible for reinstatement, or SES CDP certified and year of certification.

When preparing your responses to the ECQs and MTQs, you are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result model outlined in the OPM's Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualification. For a sample template on how to format your ECQ narrative visit NASA's Executive Leadership Opportunities.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

ECQ 1 - Leading Change: 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: 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: 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: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions: 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.

MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

MTQ 1- Demonstrated experience in leading technical and policy space environment sustainability efforts/activities, such as orbital debris environment characterization, mitigation and remediation technologies and policies, conjunction assessment risk analysis, space situational awareness, and/or space traffic coordination.

Education

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 credential evaluation service 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.

Additional information

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.

NASA may discuss and consider candidate duty station location after selection, which means that the duties can be performed at any NASA location. The selected candidate will need to relocate and report to an on-site NASA location or duty station, which may be different from where he/she currently resides.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

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.