This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Inspection and Investigations (OII), Office of Field Operations and Response (OFOR), Office of Field Regulatory Operations (OFRO). The incumbent serves as the Division Director for the Division of Tobacco Inspectorate overseeing all aspects of OII's Tobacco Program and performs leadership and managerial responsibilities related to FDA tobacco field activities.
Responsibilities
- Manages the overall operations of the FDA/OII Tobacco Inspectorate which oversees nationwide matters related to the inspection, investigation, enforcement, and regulation of tobacco products and tobacco regulatory activities.
- Monitors and evaluates tobacco program, employee performance, and expenditure of resources needed to ensure attainment of organizational and mission goals.
- Interviews, fact-finds, and briefs senior management officials to effectively negotiate, justify, and defend all findings/issues and serves as the principal advisor on tobacco regulatory activities to OII leadership.
- Develops, coordinates, and monitors the implementation of new or revised Agency policies, regulations, and regulatory procedures and assesses the impact of new regulations and guidance on tobacco program objectives.
- Oversees the achievement of the tobacco work plan and performance goals, including inspections, work associated with preapproval inspections, complaint evaluation and follow-up, and tobacco product investigations.
- Provides leadership, strategic planning, management oversight, and guidance to subordinate staff and is responsible for management of administrative, budgetary, technical, operational, and personnel matters for the Division.
- Oversees the negotiation, implementation, execution of the Tobacco Performance Agreement between OII and the Center for Tobacco Products.
Education
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. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional 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. 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 Applicants using part, or all of their education completed outside of the U.S. to meet the qualification requirements, must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. We will only accept the completed foreign credential 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. For more information about this requirement, please visit the https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/
