Senior Ethics Advisor

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech); Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) seeks a Senior Ethics Advisor to lead the Ethics and Business Conduct Program. You will report to the JPL Ethics Officer and work with Legal, Security, HR, Internal Audit, and Acquisition to resolve conflicts of interest and ensure compliant practices.

You will coach staff at all levels, investigate potential ethics violations, and prepare reports. This role requires discretion, strong analytical skills, and the ability to handle highly sensitive

Responsibilities

• Advise, coach, and educate all levels of personnel on a wide range of ethics and business conduct questions and issues that are complex, highly confidential, extremely sensitive, and have frequent, critical deadlines.
• Work closely with business partners, such as Legal, Security, HR, Caltech Internal Audit, and Acquisition, on ethics-related issues.
• Lead investigations of potential and known violations of ethics and business conduct standards raised by employees, business partners and other third parties, including planning, interviewing, gathering and analyzing evidence, and writing investigation reports.
• Evaluate and analyze employee outside activities and other COI disclosures to identify ri

Job description

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Ethics Advisor to join our Ethics Team who will be reporting to the JPL Ethics Officer and as part of the Ethics Office team, implement the Ethics and Business Conduct Program at the Laboratory; administer and ensure compliance with business ethics regulations and policies with specific emphasis on assessing and resolving conflicts of interest (COI), procurement ethics, and proper use of JPL and sponsor resources. Tasks include but are not limited to: Advise, coach, and educate all levels of personnel on a wide range of ethics and business conduct questions and issues that are complex, highly confidential, extremely sensitive, and have frequent, critical deadlines. Work closely with business partners, such as Legal, Security, HR, Caltech Internal Audit, and Acquisition, on ethics-related issues. Lead investigations of potential and known violations of ethics and business conduct standards raised by employees, business partners and other third parties, including planning, interviewing, gathering and analyzing evidence, and writing investigation reports. Evaluate and analyze employee outside activities and other COI disclosures to identify ri