This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/475352300. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Montgomery County, MD. Positions may be filled in the following Centers:
Center for Biologics & Evaluation Research (CBER) - Regulates biological products for human use under applicable federal laws, including the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. To ensure the safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness of biological products.
Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER) Provide regulatory oversight for investigational studies during drug development and making decisions regarding marketing approval for new (innovator or non-generic) drugs, including decisions related to changes to already marketed products.
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) - Facilitate medical device innovation by advancing regulatory science, providing industry with predictable, consistent, transparent, and efficient regulatory pathways, and assuring consumer confidence in devices marketed in the U.S.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) - Responsible for the safety of the nation's domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products.
Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) - Responsible for implementing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to regulate tobacco products and manufacturers based on the best available science and for both assessing and fostering that science base.
Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) Inspects regulated products and manufacturers, conducts sample analyses of regulated products and reviews imported products offered for entry into the United States.
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) - Provides the field offices with coordinated direction, assistance, and management for investigational activities in international arenas.
Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) - Conducts research that helps FDA ensure the safety of animal drugs, food for animals, and food products made from animals; and monitors the safety and effectiveness of animal drugs on the market.
Who May Apply: Open to all United States Citizens.
Additional selections may be made within the same geographical area FDA-wide.
07/28/2017 to 08/15/2017
$79,720 - $103,639 per year
GS 12
Not required
No
Permanent
Full-time - Full Time
13
No
FDA-CRT-17-DE-1991922
475352300
The incumbent works with the team leader and the statistical reviewer to provide statistical programming and data management support for review of the evidence related to an applicant's claims regarding safety, efficacy and benefit-risk in New Drug Applications (NDAs), Biologic License Applications (BLAs), and supplemental and abbreviated applications (sNDAs; ANDAs); assesses the quality and completeness of submissions; prepares clinical trial analysis datasets; interprets the applicant's programs; assists with communication with applicants regarding specifications for regulatory information requests; validates sponsor results; produces required tables, listings, and figures. Suggests possible additional statistical analyses required to fully evaluate the evidence in the submission.
Analyzes epidemiological/observational data from health records, registries, natural history studies and contract databases to answer review questions concerning the life-cycle safety, efficacy and use of regulated drugs and biologics; with support from senior staff, designs and produces code for methods development under the Sentinel initiative and other related programs, including Sentinel safety queries and assists in routine surveillance studies.
Working with division management, team leaders and statistical reviewers, the incumbent plays a critical role in supporting the OB mission of advancing the product review process.
Assist in assessing requirements and assumes primary responsibility in the design and validation of statistical programming code to apply quantitative and graphical approaches within the regulatory review and research environment. Assist in developing statistical programming solutions across projects and/or technologies to meet internal regulatory review and research needs. Plans and coordinates statistical programming for complex studies; develops, validates, implements, documents, maintains, and supports programming tools and software in accordance with standards and accepted validation procedures. Supports efforts to develop document and apply reusable code and/or tools. Develops software using the appropriate statistical programming packages (e.g., R, JAGS, SAS ) for OB statistical reviewers to support programming intensive review-related activities, such as, sensitivity analysis, Bayesian approaches, clinical trials modeling, genomic studies, psychometric Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) validation and simulation.
Works with statistical reviewers to design and conduct analyses of data from clinical trials, observational databases, natural history, pharmacokinetic and genomic studies, special surveys, and simulated data in order to study statistically intractable problems Writes reports and papers to support a wide range of OB regulatory science activities in FDA. Provide programming support for innovative graphical displays suggested by review staff.
Designs and programs data checks, as needed, to facilitate data quality and integrity. Inspects data received from sponsors and other sources for problematic entries and missing values. Evaluates and reports quality of submitted clinical trials data and the data from large safety databases. Monitors the quality of the implementation of data standards used in applicant submissions. Supports FDA projects to develop and maintain a capability for assessing and reporting on the
Conditions of Employment:
1. Security and Background Requirements: If not previously completed, a background security investigation will be required for all appointees. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet these requirements may be grounds for appropriate personnel action. In addition, if hired, a background security reinvestigation or supplemental investigation may be required at a later time. Applicants are also advised that all information concerning qualifications is subject to investigation. False representation may be grounds for non-consideration, non-selection and/or appropriate disciplinary action.
2. E-Verify: If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System. Federal law requires DHS to use the E-Verify System to verify employment eligibility of all new hires, and as a condition of continued employment obligates the new hire to take affirmative steps to resolve any discrepancies identified by the system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is an E-Verify Participant.
3. Direct Deposit: All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
4. Pre-employment physical required: No
5. Drug testing required: No
6. License required: No
7. Mobility agreement required: No
8. Moving expenses authorized: may be authorized.
9. Immunization required: No
10.Relocation Incentive may be authorized.
11. Recruitment Incentive may be authorized.
12. Retention incentive may be authorized upon the completion of one year of FDA federal experience, satisfactory completion of a probationary/trial period, and upon receipt of an Achieved Expected or higher performance rating.
13. Student loan repayment incentive may be authorized.
14. Annual leave for non-federal service may be authorized.
15. Bargaining Unit Position: Yes
16. Please be advised that this position will be subject to FDAs strict prohibited financial interest regulation and therefore, may require the incumbent of this position to divest of certain financial interests. Applicants are strongly advised to seek additional information on this requirement from the FDA hiring official before accepting this position.
Basic Requirement: Applicants must meet one of the following:
A. Degree; that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.
OR
B. Combination of education and experience - courses as shown in A above plus appropriate experience or additional education. Experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling; (b) collecting, computing and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analyses of variance, and tasks of significance.
Evaluation of Education:
All applicants must submit unofficial transcripts to receive consideration and confirm that you meet the basic education requirements of the position. Unofficial transcripts are issued by the registrar's office at your college or university and have the following information listed:
· name of the college or university, a watermark and/or the school seal
· the month and or year when you officially began and ended your coursework
· the name of program/major/curriculum of study
· the timeframe in which the semester/quarter courses were taken
· the total credit hours and grades earned for each course
Self-generated course lists or print outs from your student account are not acceptable. Additionally, please submit all transcripts that may help you met the basic education requirement. For example, if you have a Ph.D or Master's degree please provide copies of those transcripts as well as transcripts from previous degrees that may illustrate you met some or all of the basic education requirements. If you have more than one degree, please save/scan each transcript separately.
Specialized Experience Requirement:
In addition to the basic requirement, you must have one (1) year of specialized experience to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal Government, performing planning, execution, and data management for major statistical studies and projects; ensuring accurate and timely data management and data analyses for clinical data; experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) data management and analysis of clinical trial or other clinical data, (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, sampling error, analysis of variance, tests of significance, and survival analysis, and (d) assisting in conducting statistical studies on research problems and assisting in presentation of results at scientific meetings.
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 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. For further information, click on foreign education.
If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-points veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (Member 4 copy) or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Application for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by that form. For more information on veterans preference see http://www.usajobs.gov/Veterans.
Males born after December 31, 1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see http://www.sss.gov).
For information on "People with Disabilities" please visit http://opm.gov/disability/PeopleWithDisabilities.asp
Career Transition Program: This program applies to Federal workers whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed, or an employee who has been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service. To receive selection priority for this position, you must be rated well-qualified. Well-qualified means eligible applicants whose knowledge, skills, and abilities clearly exceed the minimum qualification requirements of the position. For information on how to apply and what documents to submit as an ICTAP eligible, see: http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once the job opportunity announcement closes, a review of your résumé and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the assessment questionnaire to determine if you are qualified for this job.
If after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your responses when compared to your background information, you may be deemed ineligible or your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your skills and abilities.
Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your eligibility.
Basis of Rating: Category rating procedures will be used to rate and rank candidates. The category assignment is a measure of the degree to which your background matches the competencies required for this position. Qualified candidates will be ranked into one of three categories: Best Qualified, Well Qualified or Qualified.
The Category Rating Process does not add veterans' preference points but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category. Preference eligibles who meet the minimum qualification requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent must be listed in the highest quality category (except in the case of scientific or professional positions at the GS-9 level or higher).
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics). You do not have to respond to the KSA's separately, but your resume should contain sufficient information to demonstrate possession of the Competencies/KSA's.
1. Knowledge of the application of statistical science, computational methodologies and research techniques
2. Ability to analyze and interpret statistical results and develop techniques and methodologies
3. Skill in the use of specialized statistical software
4. Skill in evaluation of data quality and data standards
5. Ability to communicate in writing
6. Ability to communicate orally
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
·Resume
·Transcript
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s),which may not be required for all applicants:
Faxing Applications or Supporting Documents:
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.
NOTE: If you applied online and your application is complete, do not fax the paper application (1203FX) as this will overwrite your prior online responses and may result in you being found ineligible.
If you completed the occupational questionnaire online and are unable to upload supporting document(s):
1. To fax your documents, you must use the following cover page http://staffing.opm.gov/pdf/usascover.pdf and provide the required information. The Vacancy ID is 1991922.
2. Fax your documents to 1-478-757-3144.
If you cannot complete the Application Package online, you may fax all of your materials. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 to receive consideration. Keep a copy of your fax confirmation in the event verification is needed.
To complete the occupational questionnaire and submit via fax:
1. Click the following link to view and print the occupational questionnaire View Occupational Questionnaire.
2. Print the 1203FX form, follow the instructions and provide your responses to the occupational questionnaire items http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/opm1203fx.pdf.
3. Fax the completed 1203FX form along with any supporting documents to 1-478-757-3144. Your 1203FX will serve as a cover page for your fax transmission.
4. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please contact the Bethesda Customer HelpDesk at (888) 478-4340; TTY/TDD: (800) 877-8339; or by email quickquestions@psc.gov. The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
For Résumé and Application Tips visit: https://help.usajobs.gov/index.php/Tips.
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.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 to receive consideration.
Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. The most highly qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for further consideration and possible interview. We expect to make a selection within 45 days of the closing date of this announcement. Once this process is completed, you will be notified of your status via e-mail.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/475352300. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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