Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Job Title: KAPS Manager 
Career Level From: Manager
Career Level To: Senior Manager 
Job Specialty: Program-General 
 

What You'll Do

Serve as the Knowledge Acquisition and Performance Studies (KAPS) Manager for the Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center (ORETTC) reporting to the ORETTC Director. Responsible for educational content and course development at the ORETTC facility. Works with partners for instructional design, production, and delivery of trainings. The KAPS Manager will also be an analyst for training effectiveness, future engagement, and continuous improvement.  
The KAPS Manager will lead a team of talented professionals equipped to design, develop, and implement curriculum for partners/clients. The team may include instructional designers, instructional technologist, subject matter expert/instructors, technical writer, and production personnel. Provide leadership in maintaining safe-working conditions; establish goals and expectations; prioritize and integrate work within the group. Handle personnel matters associated with direct reports. Interview, hire or make hiring decisions; evaluate performance; coach, counsel, reward, and discipline employees, as appropriate. Handle employee complaints and resolves personnel problems. Set standards and monitor performance of staff including development plans. Develop, review, and approve budgets, proposals, cost estimates, schedules, and related documents.

 

Major responsibilities include the following:

Communicate with SMEs, instructors, partners/clients to create state-of-the-art content for training. Conduct educational and instructional needs analysis and gap analysis. Design and develop website for ORETTC. Maintain learning and content management system. Develop registration platform. Conduct analysis and evaluation of training and events. Utilize data from evaluations to plan future events, modify content and curriculum, and improve elements of training. Collaborate with stakeholders to conduct after action reports, hot wash, and other post-event evaluations. Research and test emerging instructional technologies in coordination with the ORETTC technology team. Work with partners/clients to determine most effective technologies for delivering training/events. What You Can Expect Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global securityTop-notch, dedicated colleaguesGenerous pay and benefits with a stable organizationCareer advancement and professional development programsWork-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiativesMinimum Job Requirements Bachelor's degree: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience.  Fifteen or more years of relevant education and/or relevant experience in instructional design may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting Experience managing projects or programs. Experience related to nuclear operations/nuclear nonproliferation. Preferred Job Requirements MS degree in a technical discipline is preferred along with the required number of years of relevant experience. Experience related to advanced technologies used in adult learning and content delivery. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills and the ability to interact, present and communicate with NNSA and other government customers on a regular basis. Specialized technical and programmatic knowledge in nuclear detection and security research and development plus significant track record managing major technical projects/functions is desired. Why Y-12? You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.Notes The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

 

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.   Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

 

This position may require entry into the Material Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (10 C.F.R. Part 712), which requires successful competition of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation and may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

 

This position may be categorized as a “designated position” identified by 10 C.F.R. Part 709, requiring successful completion of a DOE counterintelligence evaluation that may include a counterintelligence-scope polygraph examination.

 

CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
 

CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.