Supervisory Health Communications Officer, GS-1001-15

Summary This position is located in the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), which is responsible for carrying out the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This law gives the Center broad authority to regulate the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products. This position is a Supervisory Health Communications Officer, the Director of the Division of Public Health Education, and principal advisor to the CTP Director on communications and marketing.

Duties

• Establishes guidelines, long-term goals and objectives, and performance expectations for subordinate supervisory staff.
• Serves as the primary advisor for communications and marketing, providing critical expertise, management, and oversight to a wide range of complex and inter-related activities involving organizing and directing activities.
• Advises top management officials on aspects of the health communications program.
• Serves as expert on health education practices to inform work across the Office of Health Communications and Education.
• Directs the development of evidence-based health education and marketing priorities, strategies, and practices for programs directed toward the general public, under-served populations, and other populations at risk.

The position of Supervisory Health Communications Officer falls under the 1001 occupational series. To qualify for this position at grade GS-15, you must meet all requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 01/07/2025.

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-15: You must have 1 year of specialized experience, equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-14) or pay band in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: Providing strategic planning, coordination, and quality assurance for all communication, education, and marketing activities; managing a health communication, education, and marketing program that integrates multi-disciplinary programs of research, evaluation, and prevention activities to maximize the delivery and impact of health information; providing administrative and technical direction to teams of health communication specialists and social scientists; staying abreast of technological developments to capitalize on new opportunities for outreach via media, digital, artificial intelligence, or other means.