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Summary This position serves as the Business Manager within the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division, providing definition for division plans and processes for business agreements, performing surveillance of contractor performance, standardizing products and services templates, monitoring and reporting project reviews/baselines, reviewing products and reports for customer delivery orders/task orders, and developing management structures to track and maintain cost, technical, and schedule metrics. Responsibilities Duties described below are at the highest grade advertised. Duties assigned at lower grade levels will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity; duties will be commensurate with the grade of selected employee. Manage the development of business models and practices that support a healthy division infrastructure, labs and facilities and personnel resources. Oversee the establishment of tactical and strategic business plans and establish processes and metrics that track progress toward completion of division business initiatives, branch projects and organizational strategic goals. Lead division business integration activities including Technical, Cost, and Schedule Reviews; Program Operating Plan responses; Planning, Programming, Budgeting/Execution tasks; Internal Task Agreements; and civil servant charge code activities. Define, manage, integrate, and monitor division specific contracts and tasks within external contracts to support successful program and project activities. Provide expert analysis for customer cost performance, contractor performance, FTE performance, financial risk highlights to division chief on a periodic and as requested basis. Manage monthly business meetings/reviews with each branch chief and ITA owners to review cost performance data. Oversee integration of all budget request submits including CMO, JSC projects, and NASA programs while ensuring request are aligned with division plans, goals and objectives. Initiate and oversee any process improvements to the business management function of the division. Foster a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champion NASA's commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity, and teamwork. Requirements Conditions of Employment 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-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Leading a team of resource analysts to maintain a division's budget processes; Performing budget preparation, monthly and annual budget/cost reporting, and NASA budget processes such as Technical/Cost/Schedule Review (TCSR) and Planning/Programming/Budgeting and Execution (PPBE); Communicating in writing and orally budgetary/resource needs or challenges to management and providing recommendations to fulfill division budgetary responsibilities. To qualify for GS-15, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level: Performing workforce planning, budget formulation or budget execution, to include, analyzing and resolving financial control problems and issues; Providing advice and guidance to program/project managers on budget preparation, formulation, development, and/or execution; Leading a team or effort to coordinate, monitor, and analyze cost performance, contractor performance, FTE performance, or financial risk highlights. 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. 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. Education Additional Information 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 are a current federal employee, you must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible for this position. To be eligible, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in a position no more than 1 grade lower than the advertised position. (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. If your eligibility for both merit promotion and/or time-in-grade cannot be determined, your application will be rated ineligible.) Note: Time-in-grade requirements also apply to applicants who have held a non-temporary, competitive service GS position in the past year. 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. Qualified NASA term employees who have term conversion eligibility (Term Appointments | NASA) under the NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 will be referred and considered equally with other NASA permanent employees under internal competitive placement procedures. 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.