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ODSP Deputy Director

Employer
FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Location
College Park, Maryland
Salary
Starting at $180,000, commensurate with experience
Closing date
Aug 7, 2022

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Field of specialization
Food
Work Function
Management-General
Job Type
Full time

Job Details

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is a national leader in protecting and promoting public health. CFSAN is responsible for promoting and protecting the public's health by ensuring that the nation's food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled, and that cosmetic products are safe and properly labeled. To learn more about CFSAN and the work we do, please click on the link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/olTyHjWe46w

Office: CFSAN, Office of Dietary Supplement Programs (ODSP). The ODSP serves as the Center lead for policy development and strategic management of the dietary supplement program, which includes guidelines, regulations, safety assessments, and compliance strategy. This work enforces the supplement provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safe marketing, quality production, and truthful labeling of dietary supplements. ODSP also consults on chemistry and toxicology research in dietary supplements; reviews, evaluates, and supports enforcement actions based on current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and labeling/claims violations; and reviews dietary supplement adverse event reports.

Position/Series/Grade: Deputy Director, ODSP. RF-0401, 0403, 0405, 0415, 1320.
This is an Excepted Service position under Title 42. Applications will be accepted from all groups of qualified persons, including Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers. No previous federal experience is required. This appointment does not confer any entitlement to a position in the competitive service and may provide entitlement to Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) appeal rights.

Salary: Starting at $180,000, commensurate with experience
Travel Requirements: 25% of the Time
Open Period: July 8, 2022 to August 8, 2022
Duty Location: College Park, Maryland
Area of Consideration All qualified candidates
Relocation Expenses: Travel expenses will not be paid.
 

Application Procedures and Deadline: Qualified candidates should submit a Curriculum Vit
or resume narrative addressing the qualification requirements, cover letter, and transcripts 
(unofficial copies are sufficient for the application process) electronically to: 
CFSANExecutiveRecruitment@fda.hhs.gov with the subject line, “ODSP Deputy Direct application.” 
Applications must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) on August 8, 2022.
 

Company

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, known as CFSAN, is one of six product-oriented centers, in addition to a nationwide field force, that carry out the mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA is a scientific regulatory agency responsible for the safety of the nation's domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products. The Center has over 800 employees, who range from secretaries and other support staff to highly specialized professionals--such as chemists, microbiologists, toxicologists, food technologists, pathologists, molecular biologists, pharmacologists, nutritionists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, sanitarians, physicians and veterinarians. The Center provides services to consumers, domestic and foreign industry and other outside groups regarding field programs; agency administrative tasks; scientific analysis and support; and policy, planning and handling of critical issues related to food and cosmetics. Most Center staff members work in the Center's headquarters in College Park, Maryland. The Center also operates research facilities in Laurel, Maryland, Bedford, IL, and in Dauphin Island, Alabama. CFSAN, in conjunction with the Agency's field staff, is responsible for promoting and protecting the public's health by ensuring that the nation's food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled, and that cosmetic products are safe and properly labeled.

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