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Duties

As a Lead Health Scientist you will: Provide supervisory leadership, scientific oversight and ensures regulatory compliance of the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program that functions to maintain existing quality assurance material production and performance evaluation processes, as well as develop and implement quality improvement strategies to address expanding performance evaluation demands of the newborn screening community. Provide leadership, technical expertise, and coordination of programmatic activities to further goals and objectives for the creation, management, and inventory of dried blood spot quality assurance materials needed for the screening and diagnosis of newborn conditions. Provide scientific leadership and administrative oversight of the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program which distributes quality assurance materials to newborn screening programs worldwide, in compliance with ISO standards and other federal requirements. Ensure that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.

Requirements

Qualifications

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. Basic Qualifications: Education Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree: major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position. This degree must be from an educational program from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. Minimum Qualifications: To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level, which must include the following experience: Planning, formulating, analyzing, evaluating, and implementing projects and activities needed to support the scientific compliance oversight of the program. 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

Copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected.

College or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For more information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address NCEH-DLS-NEWBORN SCREENING AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BRANCH 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333 US
• Name: CDC HELPDESK
• Phone: (770) 488-1725
• Email: [email protected]