Duties

Summary

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This position is located at the Ronald Reagan Building (RRB), 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC in the Bureau for Global Health (GH), Office of HIV/AIDS, Research Division, Vaccine Branch, (GH/OHA/RES/VAC).

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Responsibilities

• As a Supervisory Medical Officer, you will:
• Supervise a group of employees performing work up to and including the GS-15 level. Have significant responsibility for guiding, directing, and supervising the work of other health officers, virologists, nurses, and various other public health specialists who comprise the Branch.
• Perform the administrative and human resource management functions relative to staff supervised. Establish guidelines and performance expectations for staff members, which are clearly communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Resolve informal complaints and grievances. Develop work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary.
• Serve as an Agency expert and coordinator in providing intellectual leadership;generating policy recommendations,interventions, and Agency mechanisms to enhance the design and implementation of HIV vaccine research programs internationally. Analyze, synthesize and disseminate key research findings, cutting edge methodologies and best practices to the Global Health Bureau, overseas Missions and CAs regarding HIV research programs and their application to USAID programs.
• Explore and evaluate intellectual, academic, and other resources that can be concentrated on identifying solutions to critical problems. Coordinate meetings and working groups on HIV programs in the areas of biomedical research,including introduction and roll out of new biomedical products and technologies, with representatives from other USG agencies contributing to global HIV programming.
• Provide guidance and direction on USAID's strategic approach in the areas of HIV vaccine research and development (R&D) and HIV/AIDS biomedical research. Participate in the review and evaluation of existing policies or creation of new policies to support and/or enhance USAID HIV global activities.
• Provide ongoing senior-level technical assistance, training and consultation on the development and implementation of HIV vaccine and biomedical research activities to the Office of HIV/AIDS, GH Bureau,and overseas Missions. Lead the development and design of new grants, cooperative agreements,and contracts to achieve Agency HIV/AIDS biomedical research goals,including identifying highest priority investments and conducting project appraisal.
• Serve as the Contracting/Agreement Officer's Representative (COR/AOR) as needed.

Travel Required

25% or less - Work involves intermittent domestic and international travel up to 20% of the time in developing countries.

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
15 - Full Performance level is GS-15

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• United States Citizenship is required.
• Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Males born after 12/31/1959, must be registered with the Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
• You will be required to serve a one-year Supervisory probationary period.

Direct hire authority: This position is being filled using 5 U.S.C., Section 3304 and 5 CFR Part 337, Subpart B, which is the OPM approved government-wide direct-hire authority.

Qualifications

This position has a specialized experience and a positive education requirement. Transcripts are required. An active US medical license is also required.

You must submit copies of your transcripts and medical license to be eligible for consideration for this position.

GS-15: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14grade level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position includes experience: (a) experience serving as a Lead for implementing strategic direction and guidance to field programs;(b)managing or providing technicaloversight to programs devoted to clinical or biomedical research or health service delivery programs; (c)experience serving as a Contract and/or Agreement Officer's Representative (COR/AOR.

The basic education requirement: Degree - Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant's graduation. A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country.) Graduate Training: Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least one year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited for such training. (This 1 year of supervised experience may be waived for research or administrative positions not requiring direct patient care.) For purposes of this standard, graduate training programs include only those internship, residency, and fellowship programs that are approved by accrediting bodies recognized within the United States or Canada. Listings of accredited programs are published yearly in the Directory of Residency Training Programs and the Yearbook and Directory of Osteopathic Physicians .

• An internship program involves broadly based clinical practice in which physicians acquire experience in treating a variety of medical programs under supervision (e.g., internal medicine, surgery, general practice, obstetrics-gynecology, and pediatrics). Such programs are in hospitals or other institutions accredited for internship training by a recognized body of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
• A residency program involves training in a specialized field of medicine in an institution accredited for training in the specialty by a recognized body of the American Medical Association (AMA) or AOA.
• A fellowship program involves advanced training (beyond residency training) in a given medical specialty in either a clinical or research setting in a hospital or other institution accredited in the United States for such training.
• Prevention medicine or public health specializations are preferred.

Education

FOREIGN DEGREE EQUIVALENCY EVALUATIONS: If you are applying and using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the degree requirement, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program. For more information on determining foreign degree equivalency, click on the following link: http://www.ecfmg.org/ .

Additional information

Physician's comparability allowance (PCA) will be a consideration for this position. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/physicians-comparability-allowances/

GH/HIV Vaccine Branch, Research Division provides technical leadership for HIV and AIDS research. The Division develops the HIV research agenda and cultivates strategic partnerships to implement HIV research and technology development programs;designs and manages biomedical and implementation research;disseminates research findings and supports their programmatic and policy applications, including responding to research inquiries.

USAID is an independent Federal Government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., USAID fosters transformational development around the world. Our work supports economic growth and trade; agriculture and the environment; education and training; democracy and governance; global health; global partnerships and humanitarian assistance. We operate in four regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa; Asia and the Near East; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Europe and Eurasia. USAID remains at the forefront of the U.S. Government (USG) response in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and is responsible for providing over $236 million dollars per year in 54 countries. The Agency is a lead international partner in the implementation of the White House Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) National Action Plan. For more information on USAID please click on the link: www.usaid.gov .

This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

These are Testing Designated Positions (TDP's) under the Agency's approved Drug Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.

Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.

Moving and relocation expenses are not authorized.

M ythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies:

https://hru.gov/Studio_Recruitment/tools/Mythbuster_on_Federal_Hiring_Policies.pdf .

EEO Policy: EEO Policy Statement .

Reasonable Accommodation Policy: Reasonable Accommodation Policy Statement .

Veterans' Information: Veterans Information .

Telework: https://www.telework.gov/ .

Selective Service Registration: http://www.sss.gov/ .

It is the policy of the Government not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or has had financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. Information about an individual's employment experience will be used only to determine the person's qualifications and to assess his or her relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual's personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not itself be the basis of an unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Basis of rating: This position falls under the government-wide direct-hire authority, granted by OPM, therefore all applicants who meet the basic requirement (education, specialized experience, active medical license) for the position will be referred for further review and consideration of the relevant expertise serving in a HIV/AIDS medical research program, in developing countries.

Veterans' preference and traditional rating and ranking of applications do not apply to this vacancy.

You must submit a cover letter, resume and/or CV along with the other documentation listed under "Required Documentation" in order to be considered for this position. Your supporting documentation must clearly reflect that you possess the requisite specialized experience described under the qualifications section of this announcement.
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Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Secret

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

• Cover letter.
• Resume or CV showing relevant experience.
• Documentation showing the attainment of the Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy.
• Transcripts are required (including foreign degree equivalency evaluation).
• Copy of your active medical license is also required.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.