Director Office of Research and Development

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Department of Energy (Washington, DC)

Full-Time
Closes on Friday, October 4, 2024

Job Description

Summary

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management - Headquarters is looking for a dynamic, innovative, seasoned executive to lead research and development programs related to activities that involve the environmentally sustainable production and use of oil and natural gas resources, developing new technologies to reduce or eliminate methane emissions across the natural gas supply chain and improving critical mineral economics.

Duties

As the Director Office of Research and Development you will:

  • Provide leadership management and direction for the Office, including strategic planning, key engagements, human resources, financial management, and program execution processes.
  • Direct the Office organizational activities, frames strategic plans based on broad organizational assessments and evaluations of long-term organizational objectives.
  • Oversee the development of strategies for the purposes of planning research and development programs related to advanced remediation technologies, methane mitigation technologies and minerals sustainability.
  • Manage and execute budgets for research and development activities, articulates rationale for budget priorities and negotiate the defense of the Administration's budget within program areas of responsibilities.
  • Represent Department of Energy on advanced remediation technologies, methane mitigation technologies and minerals sustainability technology and science in dealings with other Government agencies, the Office of Management and Budget, Congressional staff, private industry, academic institutions, and the public.
  • Serve as a senior advisor to senior Departmental leaders on technical requirements and matters pertaining to oil, natural gas, coal, and critical minerals.
  • Provide technical and administrative supervision over subordinate organizations and resolve problems stemming from coordinating and directing activities complicated by particularized arrangements made between subordinate organizations.
Full-Time Qualifications Your resume must describe your executive core qualifications (ECQs) and experience, technical qualifications and give a synopsis of your accomplishments.Do not include a separate ECQ narrative. Additionally, Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) listed later in this section below must be addressed in a separate document. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS: The five ECQs described below were designed to assess executive-level experiences and potential not technical expertise. They measure whether you have the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. 1: Leading Change: Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals and establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2: Leading People: Ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3: Results Driven: Ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations and make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4: Business Acumen: Ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5: Building Coalitions: Ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): As part of your application package, aseparate document must be uploaded addressing each MTQ listed below. No more than one page per MTQ is allowed; additional information will not be considered. MTQs must provide specific examples that address relevant experience and accomplishments. Your leadership and management skills must be addressed in the MTQs listed below. Failure to submit a document addressing each MTQ will result in your application to be deemed incomplete and not be considered. MTQ 1: Demonstrated experience leading and directing the management of an oil, natural gas, or critical minerals and materials (CMM) research and development program and/or an oil, natural gas, or critical minerals operational organization in industry or government, to include demonstrated expertise and knowledge of the technologies and market dynamics of the oil, natural gas, and/or critical minerals sectors. MTQ 2: Demonstrated ability to lead and direct a large research and development (R&D) program, including the establishment of strategic plans and achievement of long-term organizational objectives; and to effectively navigate and articulate those objectives with senior level government officials or executives, functional and program managers, technical subject matters experts, industry, Congress, state and tribal representatives, and other stakeholders. MTQ 3: Demonstrated knowledge, experience, and ability to manage the budgetary, programmatic, and personnel aspects of a technical office, including the development, justification, defense, and execution of annual strategies, budgets, and spend plans; oversight of project execution; and the identification of staffing requirements to achieve organizational objectives. Education Basic Education Requirement for the 0801 Series Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements section above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described above. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.) Basic Education Requirement for the 1301 Series Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. You must provide a copy of your unofficial transcript(s). Be sure to include those transcripts directly applicable for meeting the education requirements. Failure to provide proof of education will result in non-consideration for this position. Official transcripts will be required prior to entrance-on-duty for individuals selected. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see Department of Education. Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
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