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Director Office of Procurement
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as Director, Office of Procurement for the Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) for the Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD). The Director reports directly to the NASA Assistant Administrator for Procurement and is a key member of the senior management team. Responsibilities include planning, budgeting, directing, executing, and coordinating procurement actions on behalf of NASA's Office of Procurement.
What You'll Do
- →As the JSC Procurement Director and HSMD HCA, the incumbent's duties and responsibilities include: Oversees the development and administration of the contract policy review function.
- →This includes the review of contractual documents and procurement plans, compliance with procurement regulations and policy; and analysis of special programs.
- →Oversight and management of the JSC and HSMD Contract portfolio.
- →Responsible for leading and managing the overall procurement activities, including planning and implementing acquisition strategies, issuing solicitations, conducting negotiations, processing awards, and administering contracts for programs/projects as well as local and enterprise-wide institutional portfolio contracting activity.
- →Provides leadership and oversight of activities in support of planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining policies, procedures, and processes necessary to perform the acquisition functions required to support the Center's technical programs, projects, and institutions, including the acquisition of supplies and services from International Partners.
- →Oversight and management to ensure compliance with federal laws related to contracting.
- →Collaboration with other mission support directorates and share best practices with the Federal Government; and resulting in a direct savings to NASA.
- →Serves as principal advisor to senior management officials for contracting and procurement matters while operating under policy guidance and direction of the NASA Assistant Administrator for Procurement.
- →Appoints warranted Contracting Officers and ensures the Center Contracting Officer Representatives are compliant with training and certification requirements, properly appointed, and effectively performing their delegated contract administration functions.
- →Directs the overall management of the JSC and HSMD acquisition programs.
- →Oversees acquisition activities including program plan development, training and development of Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs), source board evaluations and selections, pricing, negotiations, contract review and award, and administration, and the award and administration of funded Space Act Agreements.
- →It includes all institutional and program contracts, procurement policy development and implementation, price and cost analysis, contract labor relations, and program review.
- →Provides procurement expertise and oversight to Source Evaluation Boards (SEBs) on major acquisitions, conducts industry briefings, and serves on Award Fee Determination Boards.
- →Ensures procurement actions comply with appropriate statutes, regulations, policies, and practices.
Requirements
- ✓This position has a positive education requirement.
- ✓To be eligible, you must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university.
- ✓A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
- ✓A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management.
- ✓An official transcript will be required if you are selected.
- ✓Acquisition Certification: To be eligible for this position, your resume MUST state whether you currently or previously had a Federal Acquisition Certification-Contracting or Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvements Contracting certification.
- ✓Applicants must possess or be able to fulfil the requirements for the Federal Acquisition Certification-Contracting (FAC-C) Professional or Level III, Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvements Act (DAWIA) Contracting Professional or DAWIA Contracting Level III certification.
- ✓SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
- ✓For further information, click here.
Personality Fit
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