Supervisory Medical Officer

Job Description

Responsibilities

• As a Supervisory Medical Officer, you will:
• Supervise a group of employees performing work up to and including the GS-15 level. Have significant responsibility for guiding, directing, and supervising the work of other health officers, virologists, nurses, and various other public health specialists who comprise the Branch.
• Provide strategic direction, technical leadership, and support to OHA and USAID missions in implementing prevention, care, and treatment programs in order to meet the goals of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
• Perform work to focus on improving the HIV and AIDS clinical cascade through the following activities: delivering clinical and program expertise for quality HIV prevention, care and treatment; designing and maintaining HIV and AIDS service delivery programs and platforms.
• Analyze key medical, social science and programmatic data for effective HIV service implementation; advancing the medical and scientific knowledge base for HIV prevention, care and treatment;
• Create and sustain strategic partnerships to expand, improve and maintain HIV prevention, care and treatment services; and providing leadership for HIV prevention, care and treatment policy and guidance.

Travel Required

25% or less - Work involves intermittent domestic and international travel up to 20% of the time in developing countries.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• United States Citizenship is required.
• Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Males born after 12/31/1959, must be registered with the Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
• You will be required to serve a one-year Supervisory probationary period.

Direct hire authority: This position is being filled using 5 U.S.C., Section 3304 and 5 CFR Part 337, Subpart B, which is the OPM approved government-wide direct-hire authority.

Qualifications

This position has a specialized experience and a positive education requirement. Transcripts are required. An active US medical license is also required.

You must submit copies of your transcripts and medical license to be eligible for consideration for this position.

This position includes Selective Placement Factors. Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet these factors are ineligible for further consideration. NOTE: Experience must be documented in your resume.

Selective Placement Factor: Do you possess management and technical work experience related to the supervision of staff and implementation of programs that address prevention, care and treatment maximizing uptake of, retention in, and adherence to key HIV interventions promoted at the population, community and facility levels?

GS-15: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14grade level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position includes experience: (a) experience serving as a Lead for implementing strategic direction and guidance to field programs;(b) managing or providing technical oversight to programs devoted to clinical or biomedical research or health service delivery programs; (c) experience in the development of strategies for planning and developing major Agency HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs, including those that serve pediatric/adolescent age bands and pregnant and breastfeeding women; (d) Provide physician-level advise and guidance on a wide variety of issues and elements for governmental programs and or major public health programs of national scope and impact.

The basic education requirement: Degree - Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant’s graduation. A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country.) Graduate Training: Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least one year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited for such training. (This 1 year of supervised experience may be waived for research or administrative positions not requiring direct patient care.) For purposes of this standard, graduate training programs include only those internship, residency, and fellowship programs that are approved by accrediting bodies recognized within the United States or Canada. Listings of accredited programs are published yearly in the Directory of Residency Training Programs and the Yearbook and Directory of Osteopathic Physicians.

• An internship program involves broadly based clinical practice in which physicians acquire experience in treating a variety of medical programs under supervision (e.g., internal medicine, surgery, general practice, obstetrics-gynecology, and pediatrics). Such programs are in hospitals or other institutions accredited for internship training by a recognized body of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
• A residency program involves training in a specialized field of medicine in an institution accredited for training in the specialty by a recognized body of the American Medical Association (AMA) or AOA.
• A fellowship program involves advanced training (beyond residency training) in a given medical specialty in either a clinical or research setting in a hospital or other institution accredited in the United States for such training.
• Prevention medicine or public health specializations are preferred.

Education

FOREIGN DEGREE EQUIVALENCY EVALUATIONS: If you are applying and using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the degree requirement, 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 more information on determining foreign degree equivalency, click on the following link: http://www.ecfmg.org/.

Application Deadline: March 3, 2021