Job opening: Public Health Advisor
Salary: $139 395 - 181 216 per year
Published at: Mar 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
As a global leader in public health & health promotion, CDC is the agency Americans trust with their lives. In addition to our everyday work, each CDC employee has a role in supporting public health emergency management, whether through temporary assignments to emergency responses or sustaining other CDC programs and activities while colleagues respond. Join our team to use your talent, training, & passion to help CDC continue as the world's premier public health organization. Visit www.cdc.gov
Duties
As a Public Health Advisor you will:
Serve as senior level evaluator and conduct complex evaluation studies on one-of-a-kind or controversial global operating public health programs having far-reaching bureau or department-wide impact
Lead the development of worldwide or global/regional program operations program operations and initiatives for assigned operating public health programs.
Research and evaluate key public health policies that are central to the bureau's or agency's mission.
Serve as a leading authority and integrate 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.
Defend public health policies before representatives of other multinational agencies, country governments, international donors, private industry, academia, international non-governmental organizations, private industry, academia, consumer organizations, Congress, and the scientific community.
Qualifications
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
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: providing management and operational guidance and technical advice while coordinating and managing global public health programs with multiple partners.
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 NCEZID-DPDM-PARASITIC DISEASE BRANCH
1600 CLIFTON RD NE
ATLANTA, GA 30333
US
- Name: CDC HELPDESK
- Phone: (770) 488-1725
- Email: [email protected]
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