Full job description
Duties
- Provides executive leadership for planning, directing, evaluating, negotiating, and resolving all matters involving acquisitions, logistics management, and contracts and grants financial advisory services on behalf of the entire NIH community.
- Directs the development and implementation of policies that contribute to an environment conducive to the conduct and support of a highly productive biomedical research organization.
- Participates with the NIH Senior Leadership and their staff in acquisitions policy and program formulation while maintaining effective relationships with DHHS, government oversight entities, and acquisition communities.
- Implements plans consistent with the interests of the NIH and understands and keeps abreast of local and national policies and trends that affect OALM’s areas of responsibility and the NIH at large.
- Directs OALM’s staff of approximately 256 FTEs and 247 contractors with an annual budget of approximately $115 million.
- Establishes and enters into agreements or commitments that affect NIH management involving NIH acquisition, contracts and grant financial advisory services, and logistics management policy or operations.
- Provides executive leadership on a national scale through the interpretation/development/negotiation/ implementation of NIH business mgmt policies/procedures with research administrators and business officials of grantee and contractor organizations.
- Addresses unresolved acquisition, financial advisory, and/or logistics problems of concern across NIH and DHHS.
- Provides executive leadership and direction for NIH's $8.3 billion annual acquisition program, to include providing expert advice and leadership to NIH senior management in top-level policy determinations and overall planning.
- Provides executive leadership and direction for all business management policies and procedures pertaining to a total of nearly $2.5 billion in research and development (R and D) contracts
- Provides executive leadership for all business management policies and procedures pertaining to a total of over $5.4 billion non-R and D contracts.
- Provides executive leadership and direction to the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC). The NITAAC program awards multi-agency and multiple-award IT contracts.
- Provides overall direction and guidance to NIH simplified acquisition operations, which include purchase cards and Blanket Purchase Agreements valued at approximately $411 million annually.
- Provides broad management and oversight of NIH’s $25 million logistics operations including policy and management direction for NIH personal property, transportation, and supply/warehouse operations.
- Provides functional management and oversight to the NIH Purchase Card (P-Card) Program, with over 1,100 cardholders.
- Participates, directs, and/or oversees the President's Management Agenda and OMB acquisition and logistics initiatives.
- Directs all activities of the OALM to achieve the mission and goals.
- Creates a work environment dedicated to customer service that fosters a high standard of excellence.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- Position is subject to a background investigation.
- This position requires completion of a public financial disclosure report.
Qualifications
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
The OD, Office of Management, NIH seeks candidates who have a commitment to excellence and the energy, enthusiasm, and innovative thinking necessary to lead a dynamic and diverse organization. All competitive candidates for SES positions with the Federal Government must demonstrate leadership experience indicative of senior executive-level management capability. Applicants must meet the requirements for the 1102 series as defined by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualifications Standards Manual for General Schedule Positions, which is available at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1100/contracting-series-1102/,and demonstrate in your five (5) page resume that you possess the Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs) listed below. It is recommended that your resume emphasize levels of responsibility, scope and complexity of programs managed, and program accomplishments and results.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENT:
You must have completed 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; Guidance on Business Related Coursework for the GS-1102 Contracting Series.
OR
Occupied a GS-1102-14 position since at least January 1, 2000.
In addition: You must have completed all mandatory training prescribed by the head of the agency for progression to the GS-13 or higher level contracting positions, including at least 4 years of experience in contracting or related positions. At least 1 year of that experience must have been specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the next lower level of the position, and must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the work of the position.
If selected, and if you are not currently employed by HHS in the 1102 series at the GS-14 level or above, you will be provided a reasonable timeframe to complete the mandatory training.
Additional Qualifications: You must demonstrate in your resume at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-14 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: providing technical leadership to contracting and procurement staff; reviewing and making recommendations on agency-wide acquisition policy and procedures; conducting oversight on and solving complex acquisition problems; developing and enforcing practices and procedures that ensure the organization is in compliance with applicable acquisition management laws, rules, and regulations; and representing the organization at high-level conferences and meetings
EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) (Mandatory for Selectee):
If selected, you MUST submit a narrative statement in response to each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) listed below. It is STRONGLY recommended that you visit the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) webpage for more information regarding the Fundamental Competencies and how to write your ECQs.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/#url=Overview
Candidates must possess experience at the senior level (GS-14/15 level or equivalent) in the following job-specific Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs).
PROFESSIONAL/TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (PTQs) (Mandatory):
Your responses to the below PTQs must be incorporated into your five (5) page resume. It is recommended that the corresponding PTQs are annotated in parenthesis within your resume. Separate PTQ narratives will not be accepted or considered.
1. Extensive experience in and comprehensive knowledge of Federal contracting and acquisition laws, policies, regulations, principles, and procedures of a Federal entity or the organizational equivalent within industry.
2. Demonstrated experience in directing and leading procurement operations and providing strategic enterprise leadership; including formulating objectives and priorities, enhancing organizational effectiveness and efficiency, utilizing other transaction authority to acquire services and supplies, and implementing plans to meet the acquisition requirements of a Federal entity or the organizational equivalent within industry.
3. Highly skilled at negotiating and communicating high-level decisions to senior staff, executive level appointees within a Federal entity or the organizational equivalent within industry, and other high-level Executive officials.
