The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) provides an innovative work environment for its employees. As a Senior Leader, you are expected to possess team, management, and leadership skills needed to lead a dynamic and growing organization. The management skills will enhance overall performance and productivity of the staff while creating a vibrant work culture. To learn more about the CTP, please visit the following link: https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products.
Responsibilities
- Provides executive leadership, direction, and senior management for all of the Center's compliance and enforcement responsibilities regarding the planning, development, administration, execution, and coordination of nationwide programs and policies.
- Provides executive leadership and direction for all retail regulatory projects and tobacco retail investigations, inspections, and enforcement action reviews.
- Oversees office's policies, priorities, and processes for all advisory, administrative, and judicial enforcement actions, including issuing warning letters, civil money penalties, injunctions, seizures, import alerts, and no tobacco sales orders.
- Provides direction, leadership, coordination, and guidance for the overall operations of program segments responsible for all compliance and enforcement policy issues and the Office of Compliance and Enforcement (OCE) extensive contracts program.
- Plans and sets long-range goals and schedules for the overall work of the Office, ensures implementation by the management team for the Office and organizes the goals, priorities, and objectives of the Office.
- Determines goals and objectives that need additional emphasis, determines the best approach and solution for resolving budget problems, and plans for long-range staffing needs.
- Establishes, prioritizes, and approves OCE quality management activities, as well as determines key business processes.
- Performs review and analysis of data to ensure continued suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of OCE products, services, and systems.
- Performs a critical role in strategic planning activities for OCE and guides the strategic vision for the office.
- Guides the Office's strategic vision, including assignment of resources to strategic program areas in order to generate maximum impact and mission achievement.
- Sets priorities for Office program areas under their management.
- Institutes performance metrics to evaluate the Office's execution of its mission.
- Advises high-level Agency officials on administrative and regulatory programs and policies concerning Agency compliance responsibilities relating to the manufacture, distribution, importation, marketing, and promotion of tobacco products.
- Participates in and contributes to top level Center, Agency and Department discussions, meetings and conferences on broad compliance matters and issues.
- Monitors, coordinates, and advises the CTP Director on new or revised policies related to the Center's compliance and enforcement responsibilities.
- Provides technical guidance and support in the development and review of standards, regulations, and guidance related to tobacco product compliance and enforcement, evaluates and monitors compliance and enforcement programs across the supply chain.
- Oversees the conduct of field tests and manufacturing inspections, and surveillance activities through among other things, product submissions, publication surveillance, and the internet.
- Evaluates regulated industry activities to ensure compliance with regulations relating to the Center's overall compliance and enforcement efforts.
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with top level FDA and government officials, industry representatives, program directors, senior scientific and academia officials, and state and local health and compliance officials.
- Represents OCE and CTP, including serving as spokesperson on matters under their areas of expertise, including through public presentations and attendance at conferences and other meetings.
Education
Education requirement: 1. A bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree in quality assurance or a related degree that included at least 30 semester hours in one or a combination of the following: consumer laws, biological sciences, food science, chemistry, pharmacy, physical sciences, food technology, nutrition, medical science, engineering, epidemiology, veterinary medical science, legal investigations, law enforcement, or related scientific fields that provided knowledge directly related to consumer safety officer work. The 30 semester hours may include up to 8 semester hours in statistics, or course work that included the principles, theory, or practical application of computers or computer programming. OR 2. Combination of education and experience--courses consisting of at least 30 semester hours in the fields of study described in paragraph A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. To meet specialized experience requirement, the applicant's work experience must have demonstrated the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary to perform at the grade level of the position. Qualifying experience involves enforcing laws and regulations to protect consumers from foods, drugs, cosmetics, fabrics, toys, equipment, and household products that are defective, dangerous, impure, unwholesome, ineffective, or improperly or deceptively labeled or packaged. Transcripts are required must be uploaded in the required documents section. 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. Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit the U.S. Department of Education website for Foreign Education Evaluation. To be acceptable, the foreign credential evaluation must include/describe at a minimum, the following information: (1) The type of education received by the applicant; (2) The level of education in relation to the U.S. education system, and state that its comparability recommendations follow the general guidelines of the International Evaluation Standards Council; (3) The content of the applicant's educational program earned abroad, and the standard obtained; (4) The status of the awarding foreign school's recognition and legitimacy in its home country's education system; and (5) Any other information of interest such as what the evaluation service did to obtain this information, the qualifications of the evaluator, and any indications as to other problems such as forgery. 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. Applicants can request an evaluation from a member organization of one of the two national associations of credential evaluation services listed below: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE) Credential evaluations are not free, and applicants are responsible for the cost of the selected service.
