Join the team! This position is located in the Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction, Directorate for Health Sciences. The Directorate provides pharmacological, toxicological and physiological evaluations of deaths, injuries and illnesses in support of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) actions to protect consumers. The Directorate provides management/analytical and scientific support to other offices within the Commission.

Duties

You will be responsible for providing advice and recommendations to the Directorate, other offices within the Agency, and the Commission. Your primary responsibility will be to critically review, evaluate, and interpret current scientific literature, research data and investigative reports, medical findings and injury reports, and proposed and existing mandatory and voluntary standards criteria to determine whether exposure to and/or use of particular consumer products can result in injuries or deaths. Your written and/or oral conclusions and recommendations must be concise, clear, scientifically sound, and reflect the significance of the information applicable to agency activities, including the development of mandatory and voluntary standards and support of compliance and enforcement actions.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required.
• Background Investigation Required.
• Must meet education requirements.

Qualifications

In addition to the mandatory education requirement, all applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following:  GS-12: Analyzing and applying comprehensive knowledge of human physiological, anatomical, and biochemical principles, concepts, theories, and practices to injury-related issues in order to determine whether exposure to and/or use of certain products are a hazard; preparing written reports or verbally communicating your physiological analyses to laypersons or other scientists; providing advice and consultation services on a variety of physiological issues; and developing and maintaining working relationships with peers and supervisors, and acting as a scientific lead on work groups as needed.  Evidence of the above specialized experience must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held.  Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience or based on job titles alone.  If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Applicants must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

Mandatory Education Requirement. All applicants must meet one of the following requirements to qualify:

Bachelor's degree or higher in one of the basic animal sciences or physiology; or a related discipline or field of science that included at least 24 semester hours in the basic animal sciences, of which 10 semester hours were in animal physiology.

For more information about the evaluation of education and coursework, please see the Office of Personnel Management's website for the 0413 - Physiologist series.

In addition to meeting the basic education requirement indicated above, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 as described above.

You MUST provide transcripts to support your educational claims. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable during the application process. Official transcripts will be required upon appointment.

All materials must be submitted by the closing date of this announcement.

All education claimed by applicants will be verified.

Contacts

• Address CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 4330 EAST WEST HIGHWAY, ROOM 838 BETHESDA, Maryland 20814 United States
• Name: HR SPECIALIST
• Phone: 301-504-7925
• Email: [email protected]