About This Role
This role is for a Deputy Division Chief who will formulate operations plans to ensure that Intelligent Systems Division research investments support agency and center priorities. It involves planning the overall scope and direction of the Intelligent Systems Division in coordination with the Chief, and evaluating the progress of the Division in meeting strategic roles and mission.
Responsibilities
- Formulate operations plans to ensure Intelligent Systems Division research investments support agency and center priorities
- Plan the overall scope, nature, and direction of the Intelligent Systems Division in coordination with the Chief
- Evaluate the progress of the Division in meeting the center's strategic roles and mission
- Obtain and monitor resources
- Identify strategic objectives
- Define jobs, select employees, and assign work
- Work with the Chief to develop, direct, advocate, and define technical work requirements for coordinating government, academia, and industry research efforts and milestones
- Advocate the organization's and employee's accomplishments by accepting or rejecting work products
- Present and defend the organization's and employees' work to senior management and other organizations within the center
- Provide assistance to the Division Chief in strategic workforce management, personnel supervision, finance/budgets, procurement, coordination with senior Ames management, and oversight pertaining to the Division's research and engineering activities
- Provide top-level management of the research and development activities in the Division to ensure consistency with the Division's long-term research investment plan, Agency enterprise, mission program requirements, and Information Technology Center of Excellence objectives
- Provide management and technical direction of specific NASA Enterprise programs in delegated information science areas
- Develop, plan, direct, and manage research in technologies for intelligent, adaptive computational systems that address the requirements for advanced NASA science and mission data management, data discovery, robotics, autonomous systems, adaptive systems health management technologies, collaborative operations systems, and software verification and validation and reliability for aeronautics and aerospace applications
- Provide strategic planning for large scientific organizations in computer science, systems design, mathematics, statistical sciences, and/or information sciences applications in aeronautics and aerospace domains
- Perform administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised
- Establish guidelines and performance expectations for staff members
- Observe workers' performance, demonstrate, and conduct work performance critiques
