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 must 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.
• You must meet the educational requirements as specified in the announcement.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs)

• Commitment to the Rule of Law and the Principles of the American Founding: Demonstrated knowledge of the American system of government, commitment to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and commitment to serve the American people.
• Driving Efficiency: Demonstrated ability to strategically and efficiently manage resources, budget effectively, cut wasteful spending, and pursue efficiency through process and technological upgrades.
• Merit and Competence: Demonstrated knowledge, ability, and technical competence to effectively and reliably produce work that is of exceptional quality.
• Leading People: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a group toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals, and to drive a high-performance, high-accountability culture. Includes the ability to lead people through change and to hold individuals accountable.
• Achieving Results: Demonstrated ability to achieve both individual and organizational results, and to align results to stated goals from superiors.

Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ)

• Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering, program integration, and mission execution for complex human spaceflight or comparably complex aerospace programs, including responsibility for programmatic baselines, risk management, interoperability across multiple programs, and governance processes that ensure technical and programmatic coherence across development, operations, and planning.