Associate Investigator
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to parse the content.
The posting:
"Duties Summary This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21 of the United States Code (21 US Code 379d-3a) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, section 3072 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Section 3624. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority. This position is being recruited based on the Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band W (GS-7 equivalent)."
Then "Requirements Qualifications In order to qualify for the Associate Investigator position which falls under the 0696 occupational Series, you must meet the following requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 10/01/2026: Basic Qualification Requirements: ..."
Then a long paragraph describing the Investigator job family.
Then "Education/Experience Requirement: Candidates must meet the following: Education: A bachelor's degree or higher in quality assurance/management, data science, statistics, computer forensics, epidemiology, pharmacy, public health, engineering, food science, law or regulations, or related healthcare or science field. The degree must be from an accredited program or institution.To qualify for Band W candidate must have: A bachelor's degree or higher with no experience. OR Experience: To qualify for Band W without a bachelor's degree, the candidate must have at least 2 years of comparable experience.Comparable experience is defined as experience with FDA, a state or federal partner agency, or in an FDA-regulated industry or organization providing investigative or compliance services to an FDA-regulated industry, focused on evaluating or ensuring compliance with FDA or related public health laws and regulations. Desired Experience: Band W: Our ideal candidate will have experience in the following: Applying critical thinking as it pertains to a range of professional theories, concepts, principles, and methods to determine, execute, and explain actions standard practices, equipment, devices, processes, and well-known techniques and resolve a wide variety of complications and constraints contained in traditional projects. Utilizing computer applications to accomplish projects, designs, plans, and reports; to perform and interpret analyses and computations for unknown factors; and to define relationships in factual matters involving well-understood issues. Conducting and performing investigations using the scientific method including performance monitoring and quality assurance principles and conducting research by applying accepted and relevant business, and organizational practices. NOTE: Applicants must submit all relevant transcripts that demonstrate you possess the required education to meet the Basic Qualifications. Become a part of the Department that touches the lives of every American. At the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) you can give back to your community, state, and country, by making a difference in the lives of Americans everywhere! HHS is the principal agency for protecting the health of citizens. Join HHS and help to make our world healthier, safer, and better for all Americans. The Food and Drug Administration is the regulatory, scientific, public health, and consumer protection agency responsible for ensuring that all human and animal drugs, and medical devices are safe and effective, that cosmetics, foods, food additives, drugs and medicated feeds for food producing animals, and radiation emitting devices are safe, and that all such products marketed in the United States are adequately, truthfully and informatively labeled and safely and properly stored, transported, manufactured packaged and regulated. The position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII), Office of Import Operations (OIO). The Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII) is at the forefront of building a public health safety net for today's complex, global regulatory environment. OII professionals work in a range of program areas and locations, with 196 offices throughout the United States."
We need to separate sections: About the role (maybe from Duties Summary?), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements, Qualifications, Skills (maybe from Desired Experience?), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (none). We should not create sections with placeholder text.
We have content for About the role? The Duties Summary includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table. That could be considered "About the role". Could also be considered "Responsibilities". But we need to decide.
The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- Duties Summary: includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table. Could be "About the role". Also includes that it's a career or career-conditional appointment, paid under provisions, based on Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band W (GS-7 equivalent). That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: The Investigator job family description (what they do). That is duties.
- Requirements: The basic qualification requirements (education/experience) and deadline.
- Qualifications: Might be overlapping with Requirements. But we have both "Requirements Qualifications" heading in the text. Could treat "Requirements" as the mandatory criteria (education/experience) and "Qualifications" as desired experience? However the text lumps them together. But we can split: Requirements: Education/Experience Requirement (mandatory). Qualifications: Desired Experience (Band W ideal candidate). Skills: maybe the desired experience bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). Could treat those as Skills.
We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details exactly as given, but we can format them into lists.
We must not repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it). So we don't add a heading for Associate Investigator.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — none present.
We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. There's no explicit EEO etc. There's a note about transcripts (application instruction) - that is application instruction? It says "NOTE: Applicants must submit all relevant transcripts that demonstrate you possess the required education to meet the Basic Qualifications." That's an application instruction; we should remove it. Also the motivational paragraphs about HHS, FDA, etc. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's promotional. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The motivational paragraphs are not explicitly listed, but they might be considered boilerplate? They are not required to be removed per se, but they are not substantive job details? They are more about the agency. The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The motivational paragraphs could be considered substantive? They describe the agency mission. Might be considered part of "About the role". However they are generic. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It does not say to remove agency description. So we can keep them if they are substantive. But we need to avoid filler/placeholder text. Those paragraphs are not filler; they are specific about HHS and FDA. So we could include them under "About the role" or maybe a separate section like "About the agency". But we only have allowed headings list; we could put them under "About the role". However we already have About the role maybe covering hiring authority etc. Could combine.
We need to decide sections:
- About the role: includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table, location, agency description? Could be.
- Responsibilities: duties of investigator (the long paragraph about what investigators do).
- Requirements: mandatory education/experience (Education/Experience Requirement) and deadline.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Desired Experience" bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). Or we could treat those as Skills.
- Skills: maybe the same as Qualifications? But we need to avoid duplication.
Better: Use Requirements for mandatory criteria, Qualifications for desired experience, Skills for the specific skill bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). However the desired experience bullet points are exactly skills. So we could put them under Skills.
Thus:
About the role: hiring authority, appointment type, pay table, location, agency description (HHS, FDA, OII). Keep all.
Responsibilities: the Investigator job family description (the paragraph starting "This Investigator job family covers professional positions...").
Requirements: Education/Experience Requirement (education bullet, bachelor's degree or higher in listed fields, accredited; plus Band W options: bachelor's degree or higher with no experience OR at least 2 years comparable experience; definition of comparable experience). Also include the deadline "by 11:59 pm EST on 10/01/2026". Also maybe note about transcripts? That's application instruction, remove.
Qualifications: maybe not needed if we put desired experience under Skills. But we could keep Qualifications as the "Desired Experience: Band W: Our ideal candidate will have experience in the following:" and then list bullet points. However that is essentially skills. But we can treat Qualifications as that heading and then list bullet points. Then Skills maybe not needed. But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section called Qualifications (or Skills). The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (which includes desired experience bullet points). That's four sections.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule as they are not specified.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
... content ...
Responsibilities
... content ...
Requirements
... content ...
Qualifications
- ... bullet points ...
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract each piece.
About the role content:
From Duties Summary: "This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21 of the United States Code (21 US Code 379d-3a) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, section 3072 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Section 3624. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority. This position is being recruited based on the Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band W (GS-7 equivalent)."
Also location: "The position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII), Office of Import Operations (OIO)."
Agency description: "Become a part of the Department that touches the lives of every American. At the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) you can give back to your community, state, and country, by making a difference in the lives of Americans everywhere! HHS is the principal agency
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to parse the content. The posting: "Duties Summary This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21 of the United States Code (21 US Code 379d-3a) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016, section 3072 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, Section 3624. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority. This position is being recruited based on the Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band W (GS-7 equivalent)." Then "Requirements Qualifications In order to qualify for the Associate Investigator position which falls under the 0696 occupational Series, you must meet the following requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 10/01/2026: Basic Qualification Requirements: ..." Then a long paragraph describing the Investigator job family. Then "Education/Experience Requirement: Candidates must meet the following: Education: A bachelor's degree or higher in quality assurance/management, data science, statistics, computer forensics, epidemiology, pharmacy, public health, engineering, food science, law or regulations, or related healthcare or science field. The degree must be from an accredited program or institution.To qualify for Band W candidate must have: A bachelor's degree or higher with no experience. OR Experience: To qualify for Band W without a bachelor's degree, the candidate must have at least 2 years of comparable experience.Comparable experience is defined as experience with FDA, a state or federal partner agency, or in an FDA-regulated industry or organization providing investigative or compliance services to an FDA-regulated industry, focused on evaluating or ensuring compliance with FDA or related public health laws and regulations. Desired Experience: Band W: Our ideal candidate will have experience in the following: Applying critical thinking as it pertains to a range of professional theories, concepts, principles, and methods to determine, execute, and explain actions standard practices, equipment, devices, processes, and well-known techniques and resolve a wide variety of complications and constraints contained in traditional projects. Utilizing computer applications to accomplish projects, designs, plans, and reports; to perform and interpret analyses and computations for unknown factors; and to define relationships in factual matters involving well-understood issues. Conducting and performing investigations using the scientific method including performance monitoring and quality assurance principles and conducting research by applying accepted and relevant business, and organizational practices. NOTE: Applicants must submit all relevant transcripts that demonstrate you possess the required education to meet the Basic Qualifications. Become a part of the Department that touches the lives of every American. At the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) you can give back to your community, state, and country, by making a difference in the lives of Americans everywhere! HHS is the principal agency for protecting the health of citizens. Join HHS and help to make our world healthier, safer, and better for all Americans. The Food and Drug Administration is the regulatory, scientific, public health, and consumer protection agency responsible for ensuring that all human and animal drugs, and medical devices are safe and effective, that cosmetics, foods, food additives, drugs and medicated feeds for food producing animals, and radiation emitting devices are safe, and that all such products marketed in the United States are adequately, truthfully and informatively labeled and safely and properly stored, transported, manufactured packaged and regulated. The position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII), Office of Import Operations (OIO). The Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII) is at the forefront of building a public health safety net for today's complex, global regulatory environment. OII professionals work in a range of program areas and locations, with 196 offices throughout the United States." We need to separate sections: About the role (maybe from Duties Summary?), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements, Qualifications, Skills (maybe from Desired Experience?), Benefits (none), Pay (none), Schedule (none). We should not create sections with placeholder text. We have content for About the role? The Duties Summary includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table. That could be considered "About the role". Could also be considered "Responsibilities". But we need to decide. The instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- Duties Summary: includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table. Could be "About the role". Also includes that it's a career or career-conditional appointment, paid under provisions, based on Title 21 Pay Table 1, Band W (GS-7 equivalent). That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: The Investigator job family description (what they do). That is duties.
- Requirements: The basic qualification requirements (education/experience) and deadline.
- Qualifications: Might be overlapping with Requirements. But we have both "Requirements Qualifications" heading in the text. Could treat "Requirements" as the mandatory criteria (education/experience) and "Qualifications" as desired experience? However the text lumps them together. But we can split: Requirements: Education/Experience Requirement (mandatory). Qualifications: Desired Experience (Band W ideal candidate). Skills: maybe the desired experience bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). Could treat those as Skills.
We need to preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details exactly as given, but we can format them into lists.
We must not repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it). So we don't add a heading for Associate Investigator.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — none present.
We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. There's no explicit EEO etc. There's a note about transcripts (application instruction) - that is application instruction? It says "NOTE: Applicants must submit all relevant transcripts that demonstrate you possess the required education to meet the Basic Qualifications." That's an application instruction; we should remove it. Also the motivational paragraphs about HHS, FDA, etc. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but it's promotional. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The motivational paragraphs are not explicitly listed, but they might be considered boilerplate? They are not required to be removed per se, but they are not substantive job details? They are more about the agency. The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." The motivational paragraphs could be considered substantive? They describe the agency mission. Might be considered part of "About the role". However they are generic. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. It does not say to remove agency description. So we can keep them if they are substantive. But we need to avoid filler/placeholder text. Those paragraphs are not filler; they are specific about HHS and FDA. So we could include them under "About the role" or maybe a separate section like "About the agency". But we only have allowed headings list; we could put them under "About the role". However we already have About the role maybe covering hiring authority etc. Could combine.
We need to decide sections:
- About the role: includes hiring authority, appointment type, pay table, location, agency description? Could be.
- Responsibilities: duties of investigator (the long paragraph about what investigators do).
- Requirements: mandatory education/experience (Education/Experience Requirement) and deadline.
- Qualifications: maybe the "Desired Experience" bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). Or we could treat those as Skills.
- Skills: maybe the same as Qualifications? But we need to avoid duplication.
Better: Use Requirements for mandatory criteria, Qualifications for desired experience, Skills for the specific skill bullet points (critical thinking, computer applications, investigations). However the desired experience bullet points are exactly skills. So we could put them under Skills.
Thus:
About the role: hiring authority, appointment type, pay table, location, agency description (HHS, FDA, OII). Keep all.
Responsibilities: the Investigator job family description (the paragraph starting "This Investigator job family covers professional positions...").
Requirements: Education/Experience Requirement (education bullet, bachelor's degree or higher in listed fields, accredited; plus Band W options: bachelor's degree or higher with no experience OR at least 2 years comparable experience; definition of comparable experience). Also include the deadline "by 11:59 pm EST on 10/01/2026". Also maybe note about transcripts? That's application instruction, remove.
Qualifications: maybe not needed if we put desired experience under Skills. But we could keep Qualifications as the "Desired Experience: Band W: Our ideal candidate will have experience in the following:" and then list bullet points. However that is essentially skills. But we can treat Qualifications as that heading and then list bullet points. Then Skills maybe not needed. But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section called Qualifications (or Skills). The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (which includes desired experience bullet points). That's four sections.
We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule as they are not specified.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
... content ...
Responsibilities
... content ...
Requirements
... content ...
Qualifications
- ... bullet points ...