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Deputy Office Director (Supervisory Biomedical Engineer)
Food and Drug Administration · Posted 36 days ago
Hybrid Silver Spring, MD $195K – $280K Apply by Aug 24, 2026 Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering INTJINTP Engineering
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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 F.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as top scientific and technical expert and advisor and is nationally and internationally recognized authority in professional healthcare and medical related work spanning multiple disciplines with the health sciences.
- →Provide scientific and technical leadership and guidance on regulations and policy issues, and federal laws (including the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act).
- →Oversee OCEA regulatory and scientific work including developing policy and program support regarding clinical evidence, supporting device reviews that require expert clinical and real-world evidence analysis, and providing data infrastructure, management and analysis for clinical and real-world evidence.
- →Provide scientific and technical consultation to the OCEA Director and other high-level officials in CDRH, FDA, PHS and HHS on program status, plans, trends and significant problems.
- →Leads, manages and sets strategy for the OCEA.
- →Ensures that OCEA activities are aligned with the goals and priorities of OPEQ.
- →Supervisory Responsibilities: Provides technical, policy and administrative leadership, supervision and direction to the subordinate staff of the Office through subordinate supervisors.
- →Exercises the full range of first and second-level supervisory responsibilities.
- →Exercises significant responsibilities in dealing with officials of other units or organizations, or in advising management officials of higher rank.
- →Works with the Office Director on the development, establishment, and clearance of goals, objectives, and strategic plans for the Office.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
- ✓If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional 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.
- ✓For further information, visit the U.S.
Personality Fit
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