Job Posting: Supervisory Program Specialist

Summary

NIH's mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. We are looking for a motivated Supervisory Program Specialist to help drive the NIH mission.

Duties

• Incumbent assists the ADOMSB in the overall management of ORS and ORF programs and exercises expert authority in all administrative matters concerned with the effective operation of these programs.
• Develops strategic organizational effectiveness initiatives that enhance performance, productivity, and employee satisfaction levels; designs and facilitates activities which reinforce the ORS’s priority of excellence in service delivery.
• Consults on the development of administrative policies and procedures necessary to ensure effective and efficient implementation of organizational, programmatic, and other change activities across the ORS and ORF.
• Conducts strategic analyses, studies, and audits involving assessment of various administrative practices, products, and services; partners with the ADOMSB and the division directors in reviewing and evaluating program operations and activities.
• Participates in the establishment of criteria and standards for the management and administration of resources within ORS and ORF and for makes recommendations on issues affecting programs and personnel.
• Serves as a continuing source of expert information with regard to all aspects of business management operations, including acquisitions, financial management and human resources management.
• Directs staff who provide substantive input into the formulation, obligation, and execution of various operating budgets, advising Office Directors in the preparation and presentation of their budgets.
• Researches, analyzes, and prepares detailed analyses and recommendations addressing human capital utilization.
• Provides supervisory responsibilities over staff responsible for a wide variety of administrative management services to include transmitting guidance to program managers on policies and procedures covering many of these services.

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