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This position is located in the Planetary Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) engages the Nation's science community, sponsors scientific research, and develops and deploys satellites, spacecraft, and probes in collaboration with NASA's domestic partners and partners around the world to answer fundamental questions about the Sun, the Earth, the Solar System and the Universe.
Major Duties
- Do you have a strong desire to lead, inspire and develop people? Do you want your career to leave an enduring impact on others? Do you have a passion for exploration? If you answered yes, we want you!
- We recognize the vital role that supervisors play to empower our diverse workforce to achieve goals. At NASA, supervisors must have a unique combination of technical competence, individual energy, and the<br>ability to connect with and motivate others.
- In return, we offer a range of missions and people to support, where you'll have the opportunity to contribute to work that matters while helping us create and sustain an environment that fosters connection, engagement, teamwork and innovation.
- Supervises and controls the work of the team. Provides administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the organization.
- Responsible for the overall direction, guidance, focus, and program management of all planetary science research associated with the Science Mission Directorate.
- Identifies and resolves policy issues, develops long-range plans, manages agency efforts to implement approved programs and evaluates results obtained from such activities
- Supervises a team of Research and Analysis (R&A) Program Officers, with responsibility for ensuring that the Planetary Science appendix of the omnibus Research Opportunities in Space & Earth Science (ROSES) solicitation is updated annually .
- Maintains a schedule of planetary review panels, dates, and locations, enabling the announcement of selection decisions within the appropriate timeframe.
- Plans budgets for program elements and allocates approval and budget limits among staff.
- As a supervisor, you will provide equal opportunity in all Federal human capital and employment programs.
- You will be expected to make decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, affiliation or non-affiliation with a labor organization, political affiliation, or status as a parent.
Qualifications
Applicants must have one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-14 level in the Federal Service, which has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes, but is not limited to, experience in scientific research, such as implementing and overseeing components and activities of research programs, including inter-agency and internationally supported research opportunities; expertise playing a leading role in science management, such as organizing and overseeing broad science based research and analysis programs; and experience with strategic planning of science based program activities (e.g. development of budgetary requirements and guidelines, budget proposal formulation, reviewing budget submissions).You may lose consideration for the position if your application does not include all the information requested on the vacancy announcement. The USAJOBS Resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you met the required specialized experience. Experiences copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.
Pay Range
$137,849.00 - $166,500.00