Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)

About the role

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.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a major operating component of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public's health. For more than 75 years, we have put science into action to help children stay healthy so they can grow and learn; to help families, businesses, and communities fight disease and stay strong; and to protect the public's health.

Requirements

Current federal employees must be at or equivalent to the GS-14 grade level or above to be considered for this position. Current active-duty PHS officers must have served or be serving in an O6 billet/position to be considered for this position.

Applicants must possess a degree with a 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.

In addition to the basic qualifications requirement, a Ph.D., M.D., or equivalent degree in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position is required.

Qualifications

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements, applicants must also possess the technical qualifications described below.

• Demonstrated expertise in leading, conducting, and translating scientific research, surveillance, and evidence-based public health programs related to injury prevention, violence prevention, behavioral health, overdose prevention, suicide prevention, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), or related population health issues.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, multidisciplinary public health organizations and provide strategic direction, workforce leadership, resource stewardship, partnership development, and performance oversight to achieve organizational and public health objectives.
• Experience to deal effectively with high-level government officials, foreign ministries of health, scientific and academic communities, national and international medical and health-related organizations, community and non-governmental groups, U.S. and global media, and the international public at large.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals.
• Demonstrated ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs and other organizations. Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

In describing your experience, please be clear and specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience. Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment and the number of hours worked per week if part time.