NASA is HIRING BUDGET ANALYSTS -- Salary $94,373 - $141,434 per year Closes Oct. 17th at 11pm CST

The JSC Office of the Chief Financial Officer has two vacancy opportunities posted in USAJobs. One is a GS-9/11/12 Budget Analyst and the other is a GS-13 Budget Analyst. The vacancy announcements will close on Monday, October 17, 2022. These opportunities are open to the Public so please share with anyone that may be interested and eligible for these positions. Openings in Houston and New Mexico. https://www.usajobs.gov/job/682307900 GS-13 Salary $94,373 - $141,434 https://www.usajobs.gov/job/682305400 GS-9-11-12 Salary $54,727 - $118,946 per year Houston salaries - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2022/HOU.pdf A simple google search on NASA JOBS Houston (and Indeed.Com sends job openings to me daily!) you will find a LOT of positions with our contractors as we return to the Moon and plan for Mars. NASA needs all kinds of backgrounds - things you wouldn't think of like seamstresses for the Astronaut suits (contractor) to public affairs and education as well as accountants, engineers, architects, etc. we have the same kinds of need for services to fix our roofs (we are like a college campus), adminstrative personnel, security guards, doctors, psychologists, and we hire contractors to do research as well even divers in our large pool where the astronauts train and pilots at Ellington Field. Its a good idea if you are a college student to look into our internship programs (one is a summer that is not tied to a job, but a great experience for your resume and sometimes these students do get the opportunity to do Pathways which does lead to a job but is more of a commitment - you work first fall or spring semester then 2 summers. You might have to delay graduation however I tell students if you don't have a job don't graduate (you won't be able to get internships which internships are most likely to get you a position quicker than months submitting resumes.. if you can prove yourself as an intern you are likely to get hired in any field. Only take jobs that relate to your field so you can build a story that shows demonstrated interest (you might have to take 2 jobs as some internships don't pay money (one that's not your area of interest) but for example volunteering in a research lab or hospital will give you experiences to talk about on your grad school application and at your interview much moreso that working at gamestop (of course management skills do transfer)! https://intern.nasa.gov/ and NASA is not the only federal agency State Dept, IRS, Housing, even FBI and CIA have internships! Any federal agency and there are a lot of them ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! USAJOBS.GOV is where ANYONE can go and look for ANY kind of job and get ALERTS daily on openings in your area or anywhere in the country. Promotions - the budget analyst jobs typically you may start at a lower salary BUT promotions to the GS-12 often happen every 12 months if you are performing well. Benefits are awesome including holidays, vacation time, sick leave, etc.! Telework is not 100% usually (although you can apply for federal jobs that are 100% telework) but some positions you go into the office 2 days every 2 weeks (usually about once a week). CONTRACTORS -- NASA Contractors have interns and job openings -below is a list of all NASA Johnson Space Center contractors (a google search you can find other NASA locations contractors) https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/people/contractorlist.html If you live in a HUBZone mention it! Contractors are especially looking to fill positions from these areas! HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) Program. The Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) program helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities. Plus there are commercial space vendors - like SpaceX, Axiom, etc. and they too need public affairs to engineers -- the gamout! Google it! UTMB Galveston has an Aerospace Medicine rotation for physicians. Plus there are space agencies in Europe, South America, Japan etc. ESA is the European Space Agency - they hire interpretors.. Space has a place for you!! #1 Tip for full time openings in USAJOBS CREATE your RESUME in USAJOBS - it may say you can just upload your resume BUT if you miss anything they are looking for (which the resume created in USAJOBS prompts you with questions) you won't qualify for an interview!! Create the resume before the jobs open - DO IT NOW! If you miss this budget job due to the timeline, we will have more openings in the future. Also Federal jobs are available to pick persons from those who certify for many months - so if you don't hear right away it does not mean you aren't still under consideration. You might get called for an interview months down the line. Federal jobs get hundreds and sometimes thousands of applicants so the windows close quickly for openings some are even 24 hours or the first 100 or first 500 to apply so they might close before the "closing deadline"! Speaking of early, NOTE its Midnight Eastern time and even after you upload your application, there are demographic or other additional questions which can take several minutes so I recommend you get your application in hours or even a day ahead to avoid technical glitches. And make sure you get a confirmation they received your application. ALSO they may ask for transcripts and other information on your previous jobs that might take some time - you can upload all this in advance of any job opening up! That way when the job opens you can apply quickly for interns, for some jobs you will still have a significant amount of questions etc. so plan time to get your application in! Do your RESUME now (using their system not the upload if you can)! #1 Tip for students (PARENTS please read and share with your high schooler so they are ready for college GPA demands for jobs later) -- Students keep a 3.0 or higher GPA to be eligible for internships!! If you are close don't graduate go (take a few classes and RAISE your GPA - close to a 3.5 take an extra class and get it! some opportunities are 3.5 or higher - balance your courseload, drop a class early if you can't see getting a B or better - C's and D's sometimes are unrecoverable - make a spreadsheet know what you have to do to get that 3.0) -- seriously look at opportunities and see how many are CLOSED if you don't have a 3.0 or higher and that is forever - unless you go to Grad school and get a 3.0+ and some grad schools ONLY admit those with a 3.0 or higher GPA as undergrads so you limit your choices if you don't do what you need to do and get a good GPA (tutors are online from around the world - got a B you can tutor for an A to get that GPA! also on campus often free tutors - google sample tests, quizlet, etc.) use Rate my Professor google search to see if the professor grades fairly and what you have to do to get a good grade (this site tells you if showing up in class matters or reading all the powerpoints gets you an A for your SPECIFIC teacher!). Sometimes it still matters years later.. as you will still have that GPA when you are 65 years old (yes it can still matter if you decide to teach at a college when you are older I heard from someone that they will ask for ALL the transcripts!) Make sure your Linkedin is up to date I have heard some openings employers go to LinkedIn to seek applicants. I know of folks especially students who got jobs via LinkedIn. (Don't have the GPA doesn't mean you don't try, its just in some cases you won't be eligible or as competitive but in other cases with some experience you may qualify - some jobs in the government don't have an education requirement). Another reason to volunteer to get that EXPERIENCE on your resume. Helping in a friend or relative's business (ask!) you can add to your resume! Community volunteering often leads to meeting people and can lead to jobs as well with people who have the same passions and interest as you do! Students don't go into it looking for that of course (self-serving can be smelled a mile away)! Do what you love! Getting a job in the space industry gets your foot in the door, and you will see some jobs especially some of the small businesses will indicate X years experience in the industry so you might look at what you can get and take it with so many opportunities to do so many cool things! I mentor a young lady who was a flight controller in Mission Control (now a manager), another young lady who plans the mission for our analogy missions (where folks are on earth but simulating space both at JSC, Antartica, Florida Keys etc. At our recent ceremony for length of service we had someone who had worked at NASA 60 years! Several 50 years! And you can google it - we are the "Best Place to Work" in government - an award we've held the past 10 years! Its family oriented and intellectual enviroment that we all love!