Assistant Director For Ethics

This position is being filled under a stream-lined hiring authority, Title 21, Section 3072 of the 21st Century Cures Act. The candidate selected for this position will serve under a career or career-conditional appointment and be paid under the provisions of this authority.

Introduction

The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a major regulatory component of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is inviting applications for Assistant Director (DWM-Ethics) in the Office of Management (OM), Division of Workforce Management (DWM). OM plans, develops, and executes Center-wide management operations and administrative services, programs, and policies to advance the public health mission of the Center. DWM provides leadership and direction for CDRH's Human Capital programs, Commissioned Corps personnel services, position management, organizational changes, recruitment, and workforce planning, analysis, and reporting.

Duties/Responsibilities

The incumbent serves as a key member of the DWM Leadership team who collaborates with the Director and Deputy Director, to provide leadership and direction over Center-wide workforce management programs. This position manages the Ethics program for CDRH.

Major Duties:

• The incumbent supervises, leads, guides, and directs, assigns the day-to-day activities for the Ethics team while performing overall work planning, establishing work schedules and priorities and assigns and reviews work.

• The incumbent serves as the technical expert for the dissemination, collection, and review of confidential financial disclosure reports, outside activities, post-employment and other related ethics matters for CDRH employees.

• Serves as an advisor to the CDRH Ethics team on issues pertaining to the review and analysis of financial disclosure reports to help ensure that the filed reports required by the confidential filers are free of conflicts of interest in accordance with the application of FDA’s supplemental regulations and the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees.

• The incumbent interprets and applies laws, statutes, executive orders, regulations, Office of Government Ethics and Department of Health and Human Services guidance as it pertains to requests from employees, for financial and conflict of interest advice and guidance.

• Prepares written guidance concerning sensitive and high-profile issues and advises management accordingly. Conducts ethics training, and other ethics briefings as needed and is involved in the development of the training.

Supervisory responsibilities:

• Assigns work, manages timelines, and provides team feedback, advises on training and professional development opportunities.

• Provides technical and administrative guidance to subordinate employees performing the work and functions of the team.

• Manages resources by considering employee expertise and workload in task assignment. Obtains resources and identifies strategic objectives for the organization.

• Evaluates the employee accomplishments by accepting or rejecting work products; and presents and defends organization and employees work to senior management and other offices. Recommends employee promotions and recognition; approves leave; implements performance modifications and takes corrective actions as appropriate. Provides employees resources and information that insures a safe and healthy work environment.

Qualifications

To be placed into a Cures position, candidates must meet the following criteria:

1. Scientific, Technical, and Professional Fields

2. Qualified and Outstanding Candidates

a. Qualified applies to all candidates for Cures appointments. The FDA OTS will use the basic requirements defined in the OPM Qualification Standards as a baseline for comparing experience levels and other candidate attributes for relevant positions.

b. Outstanding candidates can be defined by existing outstanding work experience, outstanding performance rating, or both.

In order to qualify for this Title 21 Cures position, the candidate(s) must meet the following required qualifications. Please note: Additional education and experience listed that is not indicated as required is preferable and desired. Candidates who do not meet the “desired” criteria will not be excluded from consideration for this position.

Education Requirement: OPM Occupational Series Qualification Requirements

Professional Experience: To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your resume the necessary qualifying experience for this position, which is equivalent to the following:

• Advising, training, and guiding a multi-disciplinary staff responsibility for ethics.

• Expert in interpreting and presenting complex information, in both written and oral formats for a variety of audiences.

• Professional knowledge and understanding of current FDA regulations, policies, and procedures.

• Ability to build collaborative and mutually beneficial working relationships with a diverse cadre of customers and stakeholders.

Desired Professional Experience: Our ideal candidate will possess.

• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse cadre of customers and stakeholders.

• Ability to build and work effectively within teams.

• Ability to prioritize and make critical decisions.

How to Apply

How to Apply: Submit resume or curriculum vitae, transcripts with cover letter by May 31, 2023 to [email protected]. Compile all applicant documents into one combined document (i.e., Adobe PDF). Candidate resumes may be shared with hiring official within the CDRH with a similar job vacancy. Candidates can opt out of this process by annotating resume with “do not share”. Please include the following Job Reference ID in the subject line of your email submission: OM/DWM Assistant Director for Ethics PBM-4859

PHS Commissioned Corps Officers interested in performing the duties of this position within the Commissioned Corps may apply to this announcement. Officers must follow the instructions for how to apply and include their most recent orders in addition to the required documents. If selected, candidates will be referred to (CC) personnel and not as candidates for a Cures appointment.