Additional Experience Requirements For Applicants To The GS-12 Level
In addition to the additional requirements on the previous page, you must meet the definition of Qualifying experience listed below. Qualifying experience can be gained through any of the environments, or any combination of the environments listed below provided it was performed for 52 weeks or 1-year, and was equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal Government.
Academic Environment: serving as principal investigator or equivalent on a grant or contract, which may include institutional grant support or foundation funds, but should have been obtained competitively; independent research, as evidenced by the development of a research project, and primary authorship of research publications in peer-reviewed journals; held position of Instructor, Assistant Professor, or equivalent.
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Intramural Environment: independent research, as evidenced by the development of research projects, and primary authorship of research publications in peer-reviewed journals; evidence of responsibility for significant aspects of laboratory/research unit; held position of Staff Fellow, Senior Staff Fellow, Research Associate or equivalent.
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Private or Public Sector (Profit/Nonprofit) Environment: conceptualization and implementation of a research project, primary authorship on internal research reports or patents and/or publications in peer-reviewed journals; held position of Research Scientist or equivalent.
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Extramural Environment: review for completeness applications for research grants or contracts; study scientific literature in order to place the proposed research project in its relationship to the research being done in the subject matter area; respond to issues and concerns about specific applications or proposals pertaining to assigned program areas.
Additional Experience Requirements For Applicants To The GS-13 Level
In addition to the additional requirements on the previous page, you must meet the definition of Qualifying experience listed below. Qualifying experience can be gained through any of the environments, or any combination of the environments listed below provided it was performed for 52 weeks or 1-year, and was equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal Government. Part-time work will be prorated accordingly.
Academic Environment: the management of significant independent research projects (analogous to an R01 and R21 grant) and supervision of graduate researcher or technicians; publications in refereed journals, presenting published work to scientific organizations and teaching graduate level courses in behavioral or social sciences or health-related disciplines; served as a reviewer on peer-review panels or journals; held position of Assistant or Associate Professor or equivalent.
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Intramural Environment: responsible for multiple scientific projects, supervising graduate researchers or technicians; publications in refereed journals, presenting published work to scientific organizations and teaching graduate level courses in behavioral or social science or health-related disciplines; served as a reviewer on peer-reviewed panels or journals; held position of Research Scientist (permanent position), Section Chief, or equivalent.
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Private or Public Sector (Profit/Nonprofit) Environment: evidence of increasing responsibility in research or research administration within the company; held position of Senior Research Scientist/Project Manager or equivalent.
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Extramural Environment: review the technical and scientific merit of applications and proposals received requesting grant or contract funds; provide advice in program planning, solicitation, and evaluation to perform day-to-day administrative functions related to research grants and interagency agreements supporting research projects in your scientific area; identify new basic, translational and clinical research concepts, projects and initiatives to appropriate advisory groups and formulate and develop Program Announcements, RFAs, RFPs, or a combination of these, to achieve objectives.
Additional Experience Requirements For Applicants To The GS-14 Level
In addition to the additional requirements on the previous page, you must meet the definition of Qualifying experience listed below. Qualifying experience can be gained through any of the environments, or any combination of the environments listed below provided it was performed for 52 weeks or 1-year and was equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Government. Part-time work will be prorated accordingly. At the GS-14 level, qualifying experience must demonstrate extensive scientific expertise incorporating research experience with varied responsibilities for providing leadership in a scientific area functioning as a leader for a variety of efforts, such as directing research and coordinating committee and teaching activities and organizing and chairing sessions at national scientific meetings.
Academic Environment: responsible for at least two concurrent research projects with separate staff and budgets and supervising doctoral level staff; held position of Associate Professor, Professor, or equivalent.
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Intramural Environment: responsible for at least two concurrent research projects with separate staff and budgets and supervising doctoral level staff; held position of Section Chief or equivalent.
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Private or Public Sector (Profit/Nonprofit) Environment: evidence of increasing responsibility in research or research administration within the company; held position of Senior Research Scientist/Project Manager or equivalent.
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Extramural Environment: organize and conduct workshops, conferences, symposia or similar activities to foster the aims of the program, to facilitate communication among investigators, or to advise on the status of progress and emerging directions of research in the assigned program area; manage the initial scientific and administrative review of center grant, program project grant, and training grant applications, as well as research project applications submitted in response to requests for applications, multicenter clinical trial applications, and contract proposals assigned to the program area; plans, advises, and evaluates program activities for a portfolio of research project, research program and other grants/awards, cooperative agreements, and/or contracts in the assigned program area and the discovery, development and evaluation of associated prevention and therapeutic strategies; review and evaluate periodic and interim progress reports to determine effectiveness of support and achievement of objectives; recommend funding plans for initiatives; establish the criteria and standards for a review panel.
Additional Experience Requirements For Applicants To The GS-15 Level
In addition to the additional requirements on the previous page, you must meet the definition of Qualifying experience listed below. Qualifying experience can be gained through any of the environments, or any combination of the environments listed below provided it was performed for 52 weeks or 1-year, and was equivalent to at least the GS-14 level in the Federal Government. Part-time work will be prorated accordingly. Only behavioral or social science health-related research experience is qualifying. Qualifying experience includes: Professional experience that demonstrates the management of large and diverse research programs having national or international collaborations, scope, and impact. Managerial experience in organizational and program development includes having responsibility for the development of plans for the resolution of major organizational and operational problems and issues, and allocating funds among competing programs. Individuals should be recognized as distinguished scientists with major research experience and accomplishments, be members of prestigious national professional organizations or societies, and have published extensively in refereed journals. Applicants should have served as an organization's representative on permanent and ad-hoc committees established to evaluate research issues and they should have experience that included management of extramural activities to include program planning, evaluation, and review assessment, and monitoring of major basic, clinical and/or applied research supported by the agency, company, or organization and which are of national or international scope and impact. Applicants should have published extensively in leading scientific journals.
Academic Environment: Held position of Professor and/or Department Chair or equivalent.
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Intramural Environment: Held position of Chief of Research or equivalent.
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Private or Public Sector (Profit/Nonprofit) Environment: Responsible for scientific administration of a small company or a division of a large company held position of Director of Research or equivalent.
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Extramural Environment: Developing one or more funding solicitations and managing grant portfolios to support scientific research; establish criteria and standards for others to follow in planning, reviewing, and evaluating research projects; evaluating the significance of emerging fields, and assessing the quality of research within the field in meeting an organization’s mission and objective; initiating action among a variety of governmental and nongovernmental interests to bring research deficiencies, inadequacies, and new developments into sharper focus in order to redirect research efforts.