Human Exploration and Spaceflight Standing Review Board (SRB) Review Manager

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space- delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space.
Building on The Aerospace Corporation's reputation as a trusted, impartial advisor with integrity and dedication to mission success, the Civil Systems Group (CSG) combines deep technical expertise with market-leading innovation to help our customers solve complex systems engineering and integration challenges. CSG is organized by core customer-facing lines of business to manage and grow programs within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), while extending our capabilities to other civilian federal government agencies fully integrated within Aerospace rules, regulations, processes, values, and behaviors.
Within the CSG, the Human Exploration and Space Flight (HESF) Division supports our NASA customer in all aspects of human space flight and program office activities. The Human Exploration and Spaceflight Standing Review Board (SRB) Review Manager (Project Management Staff V) will support NASA's Extravehicular Human Mobility Program Standing Review Board at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). This person will work as a subject matter expert, providing program office technical advisory skills on an as-needed basis including insight of project planning, scheduling, cost management, and performance tracking across EHP program, ensuring projects adhere to budget, timelines, and technical requirements by leading the implementation of robust lifecycle review methodologies, monitoring progress and identification of potential risks, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive mission success.
Work Model
This is a full-time position based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, offering a 100% onsite work model.
What You'll Be Doing

• Develop recommendations to support efficiencies and cost savings, including improvements for SRB process, coordinate review dates with stakeholders, project readiness and milestone needs.
• 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.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where necessary. Leverage problem solving skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent.
• 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, presentations, special reports, and 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.

What You Need to be Successful
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in a related discipline
• 15 or more years of program/project management experience to develop and maintain effective operation management processes, reporting, procedures and systems. Experience leading process improvement efforts to reduce time and cost for generating required deliverables.
• 10+ years participating or leading major technical reviews or assessments, ideally within the context of complex aerospace systems, spaceflight, or large-scale government programs.
• 10+ years coordinating cross-functional teams and interacting with senior stakeholders in program management environment.
• 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.
• Extensive knowledge of scheduling principles, tools, and analysis techniques.
• Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis and schedule health analysis.
• Demonstrated experience with Tableau, or other visualization tools
• Proven ability to organize, implement and maintain scheduling management system (JIRA, Open Plan, MS Project) supporting identified projects and their plans
• Proficiency using Microsoft software suite, including SharePoint with the ability to export, maintain, and refine data for analysis.
• Demonstrated teaming and leadership skills in tasks such as formulating plans, leading studies, and utilizing internal technology competency organizations.
• 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.

How You Can Stand Out
It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• 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.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Lean Six Sigma certification
• Familiarity with risk management frameworks, technical readiness assessments, or independent cost/schedule evaluations.
• Technical master's degree or MBA

Leadership Competencies
Our leadership philosophy is simple: every employee, regardless of level and role, can demonstrate leadership. At Aerospace, our commitment is our people. To cultivate our talent and ensure that we have a strong pipeline of future leaders, we want individuals who:

• Operate Strategically
• Lead Change
• Engage with Impact
• Foster Innovation
• Deliver Results

Ways We Reward Our Employees
During your interview process, our team will provide details of our industry-leading benefits.
Benefits vary and are applicable based on Job Type. A few highlights include:

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans
• Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation
• Standard and alternate work schedules, including telework options
• 401(k) Plan - Employees receive a total company-paid benefit of 8%, 10%, or 12% of eligible compensation based on years of service and matching contributions; employees are immediately eligible and vested in the plan upon hire
• Flexible spending accounts
• Variable pay program for exceptional contributions
• Relocation assistance
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career
• Education assistance programs
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect

We are all unique, from various backgrounds and all walks of life, yet one thing bonds all of us to each other-the belief that we can make a difference. This core belief empowers us to do our best work at The Aerospace Corporation.
Equal Opportunity Commitment
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