Deputy Manager Artemis Program

About the role

The Deputy Manager, Artemis Program, serves as a senior executive within the Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate (HSMD), providing strategic leadership, unified governance, and enterprise integration across the Artemis campaign.

Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership across Artemis Programs and Offices to ensure development and mission execution plans are fully aligned with HSMD strategic direction, requirements, and transformation initiatives.
• Strengthens governance discipline by ensuring unified decision-making, technical and programmatic baseline integrity, and alignment with Agency expectations for increased cadence, risk-informed execution, and operational excellence.
• Oversees enterprise-wide systems engineering and integration, operations integration, programmatic planning, and budget alignment to ensure Artemis missions holistically advance lunar and Mars-forward objectives.
• Champions the integration of HSMD architecture guardrails, strategic guidance, and exploration priorities into program plans, cross-program interfaces, and mission execution.
• Ensures robust campaign-level risk management across Artemis and Mars, promoting proactive posture, transparency in risk elevation, and unified risk governance.
• Leads coordination across HSMD Programs to integrate analysis, schedule synchronization, mission planning, operations readiness, and resource alignment to meet campaign goals. Oversees transition from development to operations for Artemis elements, ensuring continuity, stability, and operational excellence.
• Integrates analytical insights, alternatives analysis, and strategic studies to guide the evolution of Artemis and its alignment with long-term Artemis objectives.
• Represents the Artemis Program across Agency, Directorate, Center, academia, industry, and partner forums, serving as a principal spokesperson and subject matter executive on human exploration strategy, campaign plans, and technical integration. Strengthens domestic and international partnerships essential for Artemis implementation and long-term lunar and Mars-forward cooperation.
• Advocates for the Artemis Program within NASA Headquarters and externally, including engagement with the Legislative and Executive Branches and the Office of International and Interagency Affairs.
• Ensures organizational alignment, communication, and cross-center collaboration necessary for unified execution of Artemis and Mars strategic imperatives.

Qualifications

• As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service (SES) under a career appointment, you must clearly articulate and describe within your 2-page resume that you possess the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) related to this position.
• Your resume should include evidence of progressively responsible supervisory, managerial, or professional experience which involved management of a program or organization of significant scope and complexity, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent.
• If you are (1) currently serving under a career SES appointment, (2) eligible for reinstatement into the SES (this means you were previously employed as a Career SES employee and you successfully completed a one-year probationary period), OR (3) have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program (CDP) and certified by OPM, you do not need to address the ECQs in your resume. However, your resume must clearly state that you are a current career SES, eligible for SES reinstatement, or SES CDP certified and year of certification.
• You must clearly state in your resume the following: degree, major and/or minor, and college/university. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major study in engineering, physical science, mathematics, life sciences, computer science, or other field of science is required.
• A complete application includes items described below. Please note that if you do not provide all required information, as specified in this announcement, you may be removed from consideration for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible).

Special Instructions for Foreign Education

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs. These education credentials must be deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, click here.