Pharmacologist
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) regulates the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products. Our goal is to reduce the harm from all regulated tobacco products across the entire population, including: reducing the number of people who start to use tobacco products, encouraging more people to stop using these products, and reducing the adverse health impact for those who continue to use these products. CTP's actions have significant public health and consumer protection impact and are among the most important issues faced by the Agency in its long and distinguished history.
This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Office of Science (OS), Division of Individual Health Science (DIHS), located in Beltsville, Maryland.
Responsibilities/Job Duties:
- Serves as Pharmacologist providing conventional consultation and advice pertaining to addiction, behavior and the abuse of tobacco and nicotine-containing products.
- Conducts technical reviews of literature published within Federal agencies, private industry, and research institutions and provides input for the development of agency guidance.
- Serves as a consultant on behavioral and clinical pharmacology and/or abuse liability of tobacco products and their effects on the public health.
- Reviews documents submitted for regulatory action and contributes conventional recommendations related to the scientific subject matter area.
Qualifications:
The position of Pharmacologist falls under the 0405 occupational series. To qualify for this position at grade GS-11/12, you must meet all requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 12/14/2022.
Basic Requirements
Degree: major in an appropriate biological, medical, veterinary, or physical science, or in pharmacy that included at least 30 semester hours in chemistry and physiology and 12 semester hours in pharmacology.
Minimum Qualifications:
Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. The specialized experience must demonstrate one year of full-time work experience, or the equivalent if part-time (for example, an employee working 20 hours per week for a 12-month period should be credited with 6 months of experience.) Experience may have been obtained in either the federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations.
- GS-11: You must possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 in the Federal service that includes experience: assisting with analyzing and evaluating pharmacology and/or toxicology studies related to drugs, tobacco, or nicotine; reviewing and examining documents related to pharmacological matters for input in the development of pharmacological guidance.
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- Have a Ph.D degree or or an equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D degree.
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- Have a combination of specialized experience as described above and education as described above that, when combined, equal 100% of the total requirement.
- GS-12: You must possess 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service that includes experience: reviewing and evaluating pharmacological data and assessing scientific methods/techniques relating to drug or tobacco studies; carrying out pharmacological investigations or experiments and analyzing, drafting, and interpreting scientific results.