Program Manager

Duties

• Serves as the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Project Manager overseeing the EPSCoR project.
• Serves as an expert consultant and provides advice and guidance on strengthening involvement with higher education institutions to ensure NASA can meet future workforce needs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or STEM fields.
• Manages grants and awards by ensuring the appropriate balance between resources, schedule, and technical requirements, includes ~$21M budget. Exercises overall responsibility for the annual review of operations and cost allocations.
• Develops, plans and implements strategies to ensure participation in NASA projects and research that stimulates increasing numbers of students to continue their studies in STEM at all levels of the higher education continuum.
• Participates in development and documentation of long-and short-range planning efforts. Recommends planning efforts that can be undertaken within existing resource levels and advises on the impact of efforts that require additional resources.
• Designs and conducts a wide variety of comprehensive studies and detailed analyses of complex functions. Develops and implements strategic plans to include mission, goals, objectives, and implementation strategies.
• Translates management goals and objectives into effective operations and establishes control systems and progress reporting requirements that monitor production goals and compliance.
• Ensures continual improvement of projects by managing to stated outcomes, building internal management support, and enlisting participation of community agencies and institutions. Defines customer and stakeholder needs and constraints.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• This position is open to U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
• Position subject to pre-employment background investigation.
• You must meet qualifications requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• If selected, you will be required to complete a financial disclosure statement.
• The location will be determined upon selection but must be at one of the locations indicated within the announcement.

Qualifications

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level:

• Performing program/project management which includes project formulation, implementation, and financial management;
• Managing or contributing to technical projects or programs related to research and development in science, engineering, technology, and/or mathematics;
• Working with, or within, a higher education system, e.g., as faculty, administrator, or project manager, which includes student engagement, research funding, and/or overall administration;
• Working with administration of grants, cooperative agreements, and/or awards, including drafting of solicitations and grants/assistance management processes and techniques.

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. 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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

_This vacancy is being advertised concurrent with announcement # HQ-23-ST-11809176-RW. Only 1 selection will be made from these 2 vacancies.

Additional selections may be made for similar positions across NASA_ within the local commuting area(s) of the location(s) identified in this announcement_. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) within NASA. CTAP/ICTAP will be cleared for any additional selection from this announcement._

If you have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), you must:
- Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position. The questionnaire asks you to identify your ICTAP/CTAP eligibility.
-Be well qualified for this position to receive consideration. Candidates rated in the 'Best Qualified' category are considered well-qualified. Please see 'How You Will Be Evaluated' for more information.
-Submit proof that you meet the requirements for CTAP/ICTAP as indicated in 'Required Documents'

For additional information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility, click here - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/#ictap.

This is a bargaining unit position. If additional selections are made, those positions may or may not be in a bargaining unit. To learn more about bargaining units at NASA please click here NASA Unions (Bargaining Units) | NASA.

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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.

You will be evaluated for this position based on how well you meet the qualifications and eligibility requirements listed in this vacancy announcement. To determine your qualifications and referral status, we may review your resume and supporting documentation and compare it against your responses to the vacancy questionnaire. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration.

You will be assessed on the following competencies:

• Business Management
• Grants Management
• Financial Management
• Program/Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Technical Competence

NASA considers paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Under NASA's category rating process, applicants will be assessed on the position competencies and placed in one of three categories identified and defined below:

• Best Qualified Category - Applicants who demonstrate a superior level of all evaluation criteria.
• Highly Qualified Category - Applicants who demonstrate a satisfactory level of the evaluation criteria.
• Qualified Category - Applicants who demonstrate the basic qualifications, with general knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Names of all qualified candidates in the Best Qualified category will be sent to the hiring official for employment consideration (unless a sufficient number of qualified veterans are found - in which case only those names will be initially certified ). Candidates within the Best Qualified category who are eligible for veteran preference will receive selection priority over non-veteran preference eligibles.