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Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Posted 1 days ago
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. Join our team to use your talent, training, & passion to help CDC continue as the world's premier public health organization. Visit www.cdc.gov
What You'll Do
- →Serves as the Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), providing executive leadership, strategic vision, and scientific direction for a complex portfolio of national and global public health programs.
- →Leads efforts to detect, prevent, control, and respond to emerging infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases, healthcare-associated infections, foodborne and waterborne illnesses, and other infectious disease threats.
- →Directs research, surveillance, preparedness, laboratory, and response activities; establishes program priorities; advances scientific innovation; and ensures that programs and policies are grounded in the highest standards of scientific integrity, quality, and public health impact.
- →Provides executive oversight for organizational planning, resource management, workforce development, and performance accountability to achieve CDC and HHS priorities.
- →Serves as a senior advisor to CDC leadership and as the principal spokesperson on issues within the Center's mission area.
- →Collaborates with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and international partners; academic institutions; professional organizations; and other stakeholders to strengthen public health systems, guide policy development, advance research initiatives, and improve the nation's capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats.
Requirements
- ✓This position has a positive education requirement.
- ✓Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit transcripts or a list of applicable courses with their application package.
- ✓This also applies to status applicants who are applying to a position in a different occupational series than they are currently or were previously appointed.
- ✓Applicants who do not submit their transcripts (or list of applicable course work) will be evaluated based on the information provided in their application package (and/or resume) along with their responses to a self-certification question asking if they meet the basic qualifications listed in the vacancy announcement.
- ✓Those deemed tentatively qualified will be referred for consideration.
- ✓If selected, applicants will be required to provide an official transcript prior to the final job offer.
- ✓If the official transcript does not support the educational requirements of the position, the applicant will be considered ineligible for the position.
- ✓College or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.
- ✓You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓For more information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 868c6414-ba22-4822-8223-3468704b6967
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