Supervisory Chemist or Supervisory Toxicology (Forensic) (Deputy Laboratory Director)

About this role

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet the basic professional education requirements, the specialized experience requirements listed below and currently hold a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification. This position requires Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification from a board approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, such as the American Board of Forensic Toxicology (ABFT), the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (ABCC), the American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB).

Please include a copy of your CLIA certificate with your application materials. For Toxicology Series 0415, applicant must have a degree in toxicology; or an appropriate discipline of the biological, medical, or veterinary sciences that included at least 30 semester hours in chemistry, biochemistry, or physiology, and 12 semester hours in toxicology; AND One year (52 weeks) of specialized experience related to the duties of the position that was comparable in difficulty and responsibility to the GS-13 grade level.

Specialized experience is defined as managing and directing all phases of a Forensic Toxicology Laboratory, to include but not limited to performing the full range of forensic screening and confirmation analyses to detect drug use and provide interpretation of data, drug pharmacokinetics and drug pharmacodynamic to the courts. For Chemistry Series 1320, applicant must have a degree in physical sciences, life sciences, or engineering that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by course work in mathematics through differential and integral calculus and, at least 6 semester hours of physics; OR Combination of education and experience, course work equivalent to a major as shown above, including at least 30 semester hours of chemistry, supplemented by mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, plus appropriate experience or additional education; AND One year (52 weeks) of specialized experience related to the duties of the position that was comparable in difficulty and responsibility to the GS-13 grade level.