Director, Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies

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, a separate 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, managing, or overseeing a large organization and demonstrated ability to align programmatic functions with the organization and agency’s overall strategic goals. This experience should include knowledge of DOE capabilities and investments in key areas of national importance, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum information and sensing technologies, high-performance computing, semiconductors and microelectronics, and biotechnology. Demonstrated knowledge of national security risks and mitigation actions in these technology areas is also required. MTQ 2: Demonstrated skill in communicating with senior management officials, government/public officials, scientists, engineers, information technology professionals, the public and national laboratory/contractor management (or industry equivalent) to develop support for complex programs and/or respond to concerns. MTQ 3: Demonstrated ability to innovatively and successfully partner with other intelligence, scientific, or technical organizations or agencies responsible for the development or execution of critical and emerging technologies to identify emerging threats and trends, develop policies and programs for improving U.S. government-wide critical and emerging technologies capabilities, realign organizational objectives, and adjust existing methodologies to address new and unexpected challenges in areas such as supply chain risk management, energy challenges associated with the rapid expansion of AI capabilities and tools, and the protection of U.S. Government-sponsored scientific and technical research and development activities related to emerging technologies.
The Director will facilitate exchange efforts among Departmental entities to development critical and emerging technologies to advance Department of Energys mission priorities. These technologies include, but are not limited to AI and machine learning, quantum information, high-performance computing, communications, semiconductors, biotechnology, biomanufacturing, synthetic biology, genomics, pandemic surveillance and detection, advanced materials, and robotics.