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Duties

As a Public Health Analyst, you will: Performs Senior advisory work on Public health programs in the respective CIO: Serves as a leading authority and integrates knowledge and experience of public health programs and policies to provide guidance on cross cutting procedural and multilayered and multifaceted policy issues to other components of the agency and other governmental agencies; resolve problems, modify procedures; develop and interpret complex policies to meet new and novel conditions; and defend public health policies before representatives of other governmental agencies, State and local governments, private industry, academia, consumer organizations, Congress, and the scientific community. Actions taken and solutions devised cut across the bureau or agency. Special Projects Officer: Serves as a special projects officer and conducts comprehensive research, review and analyses on a wide variety of public health-related management programs to provide a wide variety of complex staff papers that address complex multi-functional issues. Provides expert-quality formal and informal reports that address vital issues, multi-functional study and analytical approaches, expert-level findings, and cogent, substantive recommendations that are primarily used as the basis for key executive-level management decisions. Public Health Research: Researches and evaluates key public health policies that are central to the bureau's or agency's mission. Constructs Precedent setting Public Health Policy for use across the Agency: Acts as liaison with policy-level officials to ensure that the respective views and interests are promoted with respect to current and emerging policy issues, and that those views are taken into consideration in policy development and implementation. Reviews and assesses the effectiveness of current public health policies and determines where new or changed policies are required to effectively execute public health programs, missions, and functions. Compares and contrasts current and proposed policies to formulate strategies for addressing conflicting or duplicate policies across the bureau or agency. Provides executive management with recommendations to improve and/or overcome shortfalls and deficiencies and formulates alternative courses of action for the solution of complex cross cutting issues. Recommendations are typically precedent setting and affect internal and external program activities. Serves on Task Forces, Committees, and Working Groups to further the Public Health program for CDC: Serves on review committees, study groups, public health task groups, or comparable groups delegated responsibility for reviewing and developing public health policies, procedures, and guidelines. Congressional liaison work: Prepares Congressional testimony, policy documents, briefings, reports, summaries, responses to requests for information, and other substantive documents. Information may be used during Congressional hearings and other comparable program reviews.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. Minimum Qualifications: To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level, which must include the following experience: planning, formulating, analyzing, evaluating, and/or implementing program policies for domestic or international public health programs. 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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address GLOBAL HEALTH CENTER-OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 1600 Clifton Road NE Atlanta, GA 30333 US
• Name: CDC HELPDESK
• Phone: (770) 488-1725
• Email: [email protected]