Senior Safety Culture and Human Factors Psychologist at NASA in Remote

Duties

Summary

NASA Headquarters' (HQ) Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) manages a robust safety culture program to include human factors, oversight, guidance, education, and engagement with employees, supervisors, and senior Agency leadership. OSMA's Senior Safety Culture and Human Factors Psychologist is the Agency's expert in safety culture and human factors.

Responsibilities

The Senior Safety Culture and Human Factors Psychologist:

- Serves as the Agency's most prominent psychologist.

- Functions in an advisory capacity to the Chief of OSMA and provides consulting services to top Agency officials to improve NASA safety culture and safety performance.

- Initiates and maintains contacts with high level officials in NASA, government, contractors, industrial firms, research laboratories, and educational institutions on best practices and pertinent developments in organizational and safety culture effectiveness.

- Develops, executes, and monitors a comprehensive Agency-wide program for safety culture advocacy, measurement, and improvement.

- Determines strategies to better manage the organizational, human, and communication challenges in the development and delivery of a multi-faceted, evolving Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) program with a goal of fostering SMA excellence throughout NASA.

- Develops and implements new theories and concepts to promote, measure, and improve NASA safety culture in support of safe and successful missions and operations. Assesses safety and human factors aspects of high-risk organizations, including participation on major safety mishap boards.

- Develops, executes, and monitors a comprehensive Agency-wide program for human factors advocacy, measurement, and improvement.

- Determines strategies to better manage the organizational, human, and communication challenges in the development and delivery of a multi-faceted, evolving SMA program with a goal of fostering SMA discipline excellence throughout NASA.

- Develops and implements new theories and concepts to promote, measure, and improve human factors in support of safe and successful missions and operations. Observes and analyzes human behavior, capacities, traits, and interactions, as well as vehicle design factors, flight environments, and mission profiles to develop recommendations and policies.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• The individual selected will be required to file an 'Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) in accordance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.Successful completion of a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.Successful completion of random drug screening may be required.

Qualifications

Candidates must be a recognized subject matter expert with at least 1 year of experience equivalent to the GS-15 level in the following specialized experience:

1. Significant experience in assessing safety and human factors aspects of high-risk organizations, including participation on major safety mishap boards.

2. Experience in observing and accurately analyzing human behavior, capacities, traits, and interactions, as well as vehicle design factors, flight environments, and mission profiles to develop recommendations and policies.

3. Highly specialized experience in application, assessment, education, and advising of psychological principles and safety culture in high-risk development and operational organizations.