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Biologist
Food and Drug Administration · Posted 51 days ago
Hybrid Silver Spring, MD $85K – $111K Apply by Aug 24, 2026 General Natural Resources Management And Biological Sciences ESFJINFJISFJISTJ Healthcare
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"This Direct-Hire position is located within the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products, Office of Science, Non-Clinical Division, in Silver Spring, Maryland. The incumbent will serve as a subject matter expert, providing authoritative scientific advice on exposure assessments and health determinations related to tobacco products.
What You'll Do
- →Participates with senior Biologist in planning and conducting studies and investigations concerning biological and toxicological processes that affect biology resources.
- →Assists in performing biological scientific tests and conducts studies on the impact of existing or proposed management, or public practices on biology resources.
- →Assists in conducting biological studies and making recommendations for those studies by implementing an action plan.
- →Participates in developing plans for biology projects and reports status to senior Biologist if established parameters are not met.
Requirements
- ✓TRANSCRIPTS: Positions which are scientific or technical in nature often have very specific educational requirements.
- ✓You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned.
- ✓If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional requirements.
- ✓Pay careful attention to the Qualifications and Education sections to identify vacancies where a transcript is required.
- ✓Even if you hold a similar position or are a current employee, you are not exempt from transcript requirements.
- ✓Electronic Transcript Caution: If you have obtained your transcripts electronically, the file might contain security measures that could prevent our application system from reading the file.
- ✓Therefore, you should consider asking the institution to provide the file in a non-secured electronic format.
- ✓Alternatively, you could scan or take a photo of the printed copy of the transcript.
- ✓If your uploaded transcript cannot be read by our system, you may receive consideration and credit for the information we can access.
- ✓See the Application Manager Documentation for tips on submitting your paper-based documents.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION Applicants using part, or all of their education completed outside of the U.S. to meet the qualification requirements, must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S.
- ✓We will only accept the completed foreign credential evaluation.
- ✓Note: Some positions require the completion of specific courses or a specified number of credit hours.
- ✓Therefore, the foreign credential evaluation should provide information similar to that of an official transcript, to include a list of the courses taken, quarter and/or semester hours awarded, the cumulative grade point average (GPA), honors received, if any, date degree awarded.
Personality Fit
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