Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer)

Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

NIAID’s Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is seeking exceptional applicants with diverse skill sets in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to serve as a program officer, managing or contributing to clinical protocol design, gap analysis for investigational new drug (IND) filing, oversight of bioanalytical method development and validation, evaluation of preliminary pharmacokinetic data, and simulation and modeling of early data in support of follow-up studies.

You will serve in the Office of Regulatory Affairs to provide support to ensure the safety and efficacy of target product candidates (vaccines and therapeutics). This program officer position is critical to the division in ensuring that clinical studies are done in a manner that will be acceptable to the FDA and can be used to support product licensure.

Qualifications

Candidates must be U.S. citizens and demonstrate that they have worked independently in planning, organizing, and conducting biomedical behavioral health or health-related research and served effectively in research program administration in these fields.

Clinical pharmacokineticists, with clinical and regulatory expertise in clinical drug and/or vaccine development and drug and vaccine safety, are preferred.

To Apply

Visit USAJobs.gov and access the health scientist administrator/program officer vacancy announcements NIH-GR-DE-20-10807442 (U.S. citizens) and/or NIH-GR-MP-20-10812389 (status candidates). Closes May 27, 2020.

Visit NIAID Careers for more information about the position and desired qualifications.

HHS, NIH, and NIAID are equal opportunity employers.