Human Exploration and Spaceflight Standing Review Board – Review Manager

Human Exploration and Spaceflight Standing Review Board – Review Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or advanced degree in engineering or science.
• 6+ or more years of increasingly responsible professional engineering/scientific experience, including experience in a system engineering and/or program management environment.
• 6+ years participating or leading major technical reviews or assessments, ideally within the context of complex aerospace systems, spaceflight, or large-scale government programs.
• 6+ years coordinating cross-functional teams and interacting with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively utilize oral and written communication to express technical concepts and recommendations to personnel and customers at all technical and managerial levels.
• Ability to work in a quick-paced, small core team that leads technical discussions across a large technical community and influence teams across the NASA enterprise.
• Initiative and demonstrated ability to analyze workflow and develop schedules/roadmaps to align deliverables with major program milestones.
• Proficiency using Microsoft software suite, including SharePoint.
• Understanding of NASA lifecycle reviews, project lifecycle framework, and familiarity with Agency directives including NPR 7120.5F and NPR 7123.1.
• Familiarity with configuration management practices, data rights and protection, and NASA-approved document repositories (e.g. CMW and configuration-controlled data systems).
• This position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support program office standing review board activities matters, working closely with civil servant program management in an advisory role.
• Attend various meetings and conference, both regularly scheduled and intermittent.
• Refine technical review products and contribute to review content.
• Serve as a highly proactive technical specialist, understanding issues and formulating options/recommendations, while working closely with the SRB team and across other offices, teams, working groups, and panels.
• Identify and initiate next level analysis as needed in concert with SRB activities.
• Coordinate findings with subject matter experts and stakeholders.
• Develop periodic status reports and presentations.
• Develop special reports/discussions of findings, issues, conclusions, recommendations, and risk assessments.
• Formulate recommendations to senior-level program management.
• Perform other duties for the customer, as required.
• Ensure the objectivity, quality, integrity, and consistency of each assigned independent review.
• Define the scope of the review (with the Convening Authorities).
• Participate on the SRB as an authority in the programmatic aspects (compliance to NPR 7120.5 and generally accepted rules of good project management, cost, schedule, and risk), and in specific technical areas, if appropriate.
• Facilitate the review process and ensure that the scope of the review is fully exercised and ensure that the results of the review have been properly vetted, documented, and reported.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience within NASA programs
• Experience interfacing with international and/or commercial partners in a review context.
• Experience in human spaceflight.
• Experience managing or supporting NASA Standing Review Boards (SRBs) or Independent Review Teams.
• Familiarity with risk management frameworks, technical readiness assessments, or independent cost/schedule evaluations.
• Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, or Mathematics