Summary You will serve as the Contract Property Operations Lead for NASA, managing and integrating contract property execution across Centers while ensuring consistent, efficient, and compliant operations. You will coordinate workloads, standardize processes, and analyze data to inform decisions, strengthen accountability, reduce enterprise risk, and enable effective stewardship of government property in direct support of mission execution. Responsibilities Plans, prioritizes, and manages contract property workloads across NASA Centers, serving as the primary point of coordination while balancing competing priorities, surge requirements, and mission-driven demands to ensure timely, consistent execution. Oversees day-to-day operational execution of contract property activities, including assessments, corrective actions, plant clearance activities, coordination of reviews, and delegated/non-delegated oversight functions. Leads continuous process improvement initiatives to streamline contract property operations, reduce duplication, improve cycle times, and enhance data quality. Develops standardized workflows, operating procedures, and efficiency tools. Collaborates with the Contract Property Program Manager to assess how policy, guidance, and oversight requirements impact operational execution. Helps ensure policies are operationally viable, scalable, and do not hinder mission execution. Serves as the operational liaison between Headquarters and Centers to resolve execution issues, clarify roles and responsibilities, and ensure consistent operational outcomes across the Agency. Coordinates and collaborates with Logistics Program Managers and Ops Leads to ensure accurate property alignment, accountability, and integration across the Supply and Equipment, Transportation, and Disposal areas as needed. Develops, tracks, and analyzes operational metrics, workload indicators, and performance trends to forecast demand, identify capacity constraints, and drive informed resource allocation and partner delegation decisions across the enterprise. Maintains official Contract Property records and data integrity, develops enterprise-level reports and analytics, and prepares executive briefings and presentations on program status, performance, and risk to inform leadership decision-making. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Prioritizing and conducting contract property or logistics-related operations across multiple organizations or locations; Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., program managers, contracting officers, and functional leads) to resolve execution issues, align roles and responsibilities, and ensure integrated property accountability; and Analyzing operational metrics and performance data to identify resource constraints and inform decision-making while maintaining official records and data systems. Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job. NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses. Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process. Education Additional Information Additional selections may be made for similar positions across NASA within the local commuting area(s) of the location(s) identified in this announcement. By applying, you agree to have your application shared with interested selecting official(s) within NASA. CTAP/ICTAP will be cleared for any additional selection from this announcement. You must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible for this position. To be eligible, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in a position no more than 1 grade lower than the advertised position. (Please submit your SF-50 that shows Time-in-Grade eligibility and reflects your title, series, and grade. If your eligibility for both merit promotion and/or time-in-grade cannot be determined, your application will be rated ineligible.) Note: Time-in-grade requirements also apply to applicants who have held a non-temporary, competitive service GS position in the past year. If you have special priority selection rights under the Agency Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) or the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP), you must: - Indicate your eligibility when applying for a position. The questionnaire asks you to identify your ICTAP/CTAP eligibility. - Be well qualified for this position to receive consideration. Candidates rated in the 'Best Qualified' category are considered well-qualified. Please see 'How You Will Be Evaluated' for more information. - Submit proof that you meet the requirements for CTAP/ICTAP as indicated in 'Required Documents' For additional information about CTAP/ICTAP eligibility, click here - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/#ictap. Qualified NASA term employees who have term conversion eligibility (Term Appointments | NASA) under the NASA Flexibility Act of 2004 will be referred and considered equally with other NASA permanent employees under internal competitive placement procedures. Per Executive Order 14343, this position is not part of a bargaining unit.
