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Position Summary:
You will serve as the Instrument Design Lab (IDL) Deputy Team Lead in the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Instrument Systems and Technology Division (ISTD). You will advise on, conduct, and monitor Technical Managerial functions for Center science instrument development and related technologies, including instrument families ranging from telescope, cameras, lidars, spectrometers, coronagraphs; covering the electro-magnetic spectrum from microwave through gamma ray.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supports the IDL Team Lead through marketing its capabilities to potential customers and enabling bringing new business into the IDL.
- Conducts technical reviews of precedent-setting professional studies, research, and/or analysis in the technical management field.
- Analyzes, coordinates, and integrates a number of complex program elements into programs that represent a Center-wide program for science-driven instrument and related technology investment.
- Advises on, conducts, and monitors technical managerial functions for GSFC science instrument development and related technologies.
- As the Instrument Design Lab (IDL) Deputy Team Lead, provides study leadership for instrument studies including architecture studies through preparation, execution, and closeout by defining the technical scope of work and staffing a team.
Required Education & Experience:
In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below and have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, which has equipped you with the particular competencies needed to successfully perform the duties of the position described above.
To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level
- Providing technical management problem solving skills for situations in which there are no precedents, and which involve trade-offs between scientific requirements, technical capabilities of hardware/software, and cost and schedule;
- Working with state-of-the-art space-flight instrument systems to conduct reviews of prospective one-of-a-kind instrument systems for astrophysics, planetary and lunar science, earth science, heliophysics, and other science areas as needed.
- Contributing to or technically leading project goals for large, diverse groups of technical personnel such as aerospace contractors, hardware partners, and GSFC scientists and engineers;
- Utilizing NASA procurement, contractual, funding partners, and GSFC scientists and engineers; and working knowledge of NASA procurement, contractual, funding and budgetary policies and practices.