Deputy Director of Project and Mission Mgmt

Job Description

Job Description

SUMMARY

General Description: Provides leadership and strategic planning and direction for all VSA projects and missions. The Deputy Director responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects and missions on time, within budget, and within scope. Ensures stakeholders, engineers, and technical staff meet technical, cost, and schedule deliverables as agreed upon. Verifies all programmatic and regulatory requirements are met. Prepare reports and brief senior leadership regarding status of project(s) and mission(s).

Responsibilities and Duties:

1. Collaborates with Director of PMMO on all aspects to verify proper organizational direction, staffing levels and process improvement opportunities to gain efficiency.
2. Maintains project management standards throughout the organization. Aligning the management of missions with similar criteria as applicable.
3. Manages a complex project and mission portfolio, ensuring all objectives are aligned with the organization’s strategic initiatives.
4. Continuously develops an advanced understanding of VSA operational systems as a whole and applies that knowledge to prevent unintended conflicts between existing mission operations and new projects.
5. Ensures proper contractual requirements, deliverables, technical standards and specifications are included in all Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and met during the proposal review process prior to awarding contracts.
6. Ensures proper contractual requirements, deliverables, technical standards and specifications are included in all Launch Service Provider (LSP) mission agreements prior to awarding contracts.
7. Serves as a primary interface to NASA Wallops and all LSP’s for both project and mission execution.
8. As a supervisor, develops employees through leadership and mentoring. Needs to be capable of managing a team of 20-25 individuals.
9. Ensures a safe and healthy work environment for all activities.
10. Provides oversight and management of projects and missions through software applications leading to Key Performance Indicator (KPI) oversight and reporting.
11. Determines operational support capability requirements as identified by mission needs and anticipates expected challenges.
12. Assists in the development and implementation of processes targeted at reducing overall cost while increasing effectivity.
13. Develops budget and schedule requirements for all assigned programs and missions.
14. Oversees lessons learned for all projects and missions to drive increased team performance and process efficiency gains.
15. Ensures assigned workforce is trained in their respective tasks.
16. Collaborate internally and externally, communicate, and connects with both senior leaders and employees to improve communication across all VSA functional areas.
17. Resolves problems identified within the assigned functional areas and develops mitigation plans for preventing similar future problems.
18. Other duties as assigned within the assigned functional area

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

General Education

College: Bachelor's Degree Major: Business Management or Engineering

Job-Related Experience: Eight (8) years of direct, practical work experience in the workplace providing strategic, technical, operations, financial and managerial leadership to implement project activities successfully. Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.

Licenses, etc.: Valid driver's license is necessary when operating a vehicle while on agency business.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge of required operational support functions such as logistics, procurement, contracts, equipment maintenance, quality assurance-related process control systems, safety programs related to industrial operations, and environmental regulations as applied to support functions.

Skills:

• Ability to effectively lead people
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Organization and attention to detail
• Proficient with Microsoft Office or related programs.
• SharePoint experience preferred.

Abilities:

• Time management with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates high professionalism in dealing with confidential and sensitive issues.
• Ability to provide the highest level of customer service to both internal and external customers.

Competencies:

• Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Adaptability
• Responsibility
• Creativity
• Analytical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Emotional Intelligence
• Cultural Awareness

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

In certain situations, employee may be asked to respond to emergencies, during work hours or outside of work hours, based on the needs of the Authority.

Physical Demands: This is a management position in an office environment with occasional time required outside in an industrial work environment. Employee must be able to occasionally navigate safely in a complex industrial environment with exposure to typical construction environment.

Mental/Sensory:

• Employee conveys information and ideas clearly, both orally and in written English.
• Anticipates, prevents, identifies, and solves problems in the workplace.
• Assimilates complex information. Listens to, comprehends, and clarifies concerns and issues raised by colleagues and clients.
• Emergency situations may present unpredictable scenarios, not anticipated in this job description

Emotional:

• Works well in stressful, high-pressure work environment.
• Maintains composure and objectivity.
• Is respectful.
• Works with diverse personalities and levels.
• Exercises a high degree of discretion when handling confidential data, documents, correspondences, and other information.
• Handles multiple priorities and adapts to frequent change.

Work Environment: Work is performed in a typical office setting.

Must be able to obtain and maintain eligibility for issuance of a NASA credential.

Must be able to pass a pre-employment background check and drug test.