Summary You will serve as a RESEARCH HEALTH PHYSICIST (DIRECTED ENERGY/PROGRAM MANAGER) in the NV, ORT-STR: NVAVI of NAVMEDRSCH UNIT SAN ANTONIO. This announcement uses the OPM DHA for STEM Position to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service. Responsibilities You will serve as Director, Directed Energy Health Effects Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio. You will supervise highly specialized and technical professions, technicians, and research administrative providing both technical and administrative supervision as required. You will exercise the delegated authority for overseeing the planning, direction, and timely execution of multiple science projects/programs. You will monitor and control of project/program funding to include the planning, use and distribution of funds, and timeliness to meet ongoing multicentered and multiyear projects/programs goals and objectives. You will plan and evaluate long-range projects that accomplish the organization’s mission. You will provide technical authority in the interpretation of guidelines for the completion of research objectives and for the development of directed energy health effects and the development of safety standards. You will develop and modify new methods and procedures that deviate from established approaches to address complicated health and readiness issues. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. ALL Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess: Degree: natural science or engineering that included at least 30 semester hours in health physics, engineering, radiological science, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and/or calculus. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED OR YOU WILL RATED INELIGIBLE) or Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or other education; or certification as a health physicist by the American Board of Health Physics, plus appropriate experience and other education that provided an understanding of sciences applicable to health physics comparable to that described in paragraph A. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED OR YOU WILL RATED INELIGIBLE) In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Formulating experimental design and execute human and animal research, (i.e., developing/supervise research efforts investigating the impact of hostile non-ionizing radiation; nonionizing radiation biological effects, photo-acoustic spectroscopy, laser induce optical spectroscopy, and laser induced coherent photo-acoustic spectroscopy, etc.…); Utilizing techniques for biological and physical sciences, especially those related to electromagnetic physics, cell and molecular biology and histopathology and to exercise statistical analysis/inference related to scientific study, such as statistical power, and hypothesis testing; Leading and participating in important committees, such as those for approving research protocols for animal research, providing safety oversight, or setting organizational policy; Interpreting complex scientific documentation, including technical reports, peer reviewed scientific publications, case reports, patents, and professional journals - not to exclude naming authorship or co-authorship on scientific publications and patents; AND Consulting as/if needed w/other disciplines both internal and external involved in the study/project in assessing alternatives prior to determining a course of action for varied subsystems, complex systems integration issues and program functions, and services. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/health-physics-series-1306/ Education Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position. PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. Military Spouse Preference applicants will receive priority consideration at the Full Performance Level (FPL) and if determined to be Best Qualified at the FPL, and selected, must be placed at the FPL. A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/ictap/ Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under the specific hiring authority addressed in the Summary section of this announcement. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.