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Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Posted 4 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
- →As a Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, you will: Serve as the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), providing executive leadership, strategic direction, and scientific oversight for national and global immunization, vaccine-preventable disease, and respiratory disease programs.
- →Direct the development and implementation of policies, surveillance systems, research initiatives, emergency preparedness activities, and outbreak response efforts related to COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory threats, while advancing public health objectives through evidence-based prevention and control strategies.
- →Lead and manage a large, complex organization responsible for immunization and respiratory disease activities, including workforce planning, budget oversight, program evaluation, and stakeholder engagement.
- →Serve as a principal advisor and subject matter expert to senior CDC and HHS leadership, represent the agency before Congress, federal and state partners, academia, and international organizations, and provide leadership to ensure effective program operations, collaboration, and achievement of CDC mission priorities.
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: 30b4b4b8-6ed7-45c7-b4ad-54d90c886802
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