Digna Carballosa Joins NASA As Deputy Director of the Office of Human Capital at Marshall Space Flight Center

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Digna Carballosa has been named deputy director of the Office of Human Capital at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. She will help lead the organization that oversees organization and leadership development, academic affairs, training and incentives, workforce strategy and planning, federal labor relations, and employee services and operations.

Carballosa joins NASA from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, where she worked for nearly 13 years beginning in 1993. Most recently, she was an operations supervisor, with responsibilities that included leading a team of 20 human resources and consulting professionals who worked to transform human capital management in seven federal agencies and hold them accountable for managing their workforce effectively and efficiently. These agencies included the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, Department of Housing and Urban Development, General Services Administration, and the Department of Commerce.

From 1999 to 2003, Carballosa was an Office of Personnel Management’s human capital officer, serving federal agencies that included Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Small Business Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the General Services Administration. In that capacity, she worked to streamline hiring processes, modify and certify performance appraisal systems, and improve workforce analysis and planning. She served as a compliance auditor at the Office of Personnel Management from 1999 to 2003, and a performance management specialist from 1994 to 1999.

During her tenure at the Office of Personnel Management, Carballosa earned several awards, including the National Association of Hispanic Federal Executives Excellence in Public Service Award, superior performance awards and two director’s awards for excellence. She has contributed to several professional publications on topics ranging from performance management to human capital assessment and accountability.

Carballosa earned her bachelor’s degree in international affairs in 1992 from Florida International University in Miami. A native of Cuba, she and her husband live in Athens, Ala., with their two sons.