Program Manager

Job Title

Director of Data Acquisitions

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A major function of the Office of Data Acquisitions is to provide databases developed from state highway safety related data for use in analyses aimed at reducing deaths, injuries, crashes, and medical costs.

As the Director, the incumbent will be responsible for the following:

• Advising the Associate Administrator on all matters related to the design, development, coordination, and management of crash investigation and data collection, and their contribution to achieving the mission of NHTSA. Keeps the Associate Administrator fully informed as to the status of programs and of problems and controversial issues. Collaborates closely with the Associate Administrator and other top officials of NHTSA to identify the agency's crash research and data needs, to determine techniques and methods by which the office can meet those needs, to estimate the cost and time required to meet the needs, and to determine other implications of changes.
• Carrying out personnel management responsibilities for a staff of professional, technical, administrative and clerical support personnel. Makes decisions on work problems presented by subordinate supervisors and key specialists. Evaluates performance of subordinate supervisors and reviews evaluations made by supervisors of subordinate employee's performance.
• Establishing policy and provides management oversight of the State Data Reporting Systems Division responsible for the crash record-based data. Crash record based data includes the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a fundamental national data base on traffic safety, Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS), Not-in-Traffic System (NTS) and the State Electronic Data Collection Program (SEDC). The Division also provides the expertise in sample design and quality control to the other offices in the National Center for Statistics and Analysis, the rest of NHTSA and other offices in DOT.
• Establishing policy and provides management oversight of the Crash Investigation Division (CID), provides executive leadership in the planning, design, development, coordination, and management of national networks of motor vehicle traffic crash research and data collection activities. These include the operation of a national system to conduct detailed investigations of a well-defined selection of motor vehicle crashes currently the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS)); and the Special Crash Investigations (SCI) program of special investigations of crashes of particular, interest; and Systems for collecting, supplementing, and coding data from police crash reports to provide special purpose data files.
• Maintaining liaison with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, police agencies, hospitals, private safety groups, motor vehicle and equipment manufacturers, crash research and analysis organizations, professional societies, and other groups with an interest in crash investigation and crash data for the purposes are for exchanging crash data and information on crash research technology, encouraging the use of crash data, and cooperating on crash research programs.

The ideal candidate is a data executive and systems expert with a track record of managing federal data collection, automation, and national crash investigation programs. They possess the strategic and technical skills to lead multi-disciplinary teams while directing the human resource, budgetary, and procurement parameters vital to national highway safety initiatives. A skilled collaborator, they excel at building partnerships across federal, state, and private sectors including law enforcement, public health, and the automotive industry to secure cooperation and advance data systems. Furthermore, they bring expertise in data governance, enforcing quality control and data completeness while protecting individual privacy, ensuring the delivery of accurate databases that support national safety research and rulemaking.

Department of Transportation