Social Scientist (Technical Project Lead Coordinator)

Food and Drug Administration; Silver Spring (MD); Remote; USD 107,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework eligible

Job summary

Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, MD seeks a Social Scientist (Technical Project Lead Coordinator) to support the Office of Science and the Division of Population Health Science. This federal role requires careful attention to transcripts and foreign-education evaluations per exam requirements.

Primary duties include coordinating technical projects within the DPHS, contributing to public health research, and ensuring compliance with education documentation.

Job description

Social Scientist (Technical Project Lead Coordinator)

• Hiring Agency: Food and Drug Administration
• Department: Department of Health and Human Services

This position is located in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), which is responsible for carrying out the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, passed by Congress in 2009. Commonly called the Tobacco Control Act, the law gives the CTP broad authority to regulate the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products.

Serve as a Social Scientist (Technical Project Lead Coordinator) in the Office of Science (OS), Division of Population Health Science (DPHS).

TRANSCRIPTS: Positions which are scientific or technical in nature often have very specific educational requirements. You must submit an official transcript, unofficial transcript, or a list including courses, grades earned, completion dates, and quarter and semester hours earned. If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities, see the Foreign Education section below for additional requirements.

Pay careful attention to the Qualifications and Education sections to identify vacancies where a transcript is required. Even if you hold a similar position or are a current employee, you are not exempt from transcript requirements. Electronic Transcript Caution: If you have obtained your transcripts electronically, the file might contain security measures that could prevent our application system from reading the file.

Therefore, you should consider asking the institution to provide the file in a non-secured electronic format. Alternatively, you could scan or take a photo of the printed copy of the transcript. If your uploaded transcript cannot be read by our system, you may receive consideration and credit for the information we can access. FOREIGN EDUCATION Applicants using part, or all of their education completed outside of the U.S.

to meet the qualification requirements, must have their foreign education evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that the foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the U.S. We will only accept the completed foreign credential evaluation.

To be acceptable, the foreign credential evaluation must include/describe at a minimum, the following information: (1) The type of education received by the applicant; (2) The level of education in relation to the U.S.

education system, and state that its comparability recommendations follow the general guidelines of the International Evaluation Standards Council; (3) The content of the applicant's educational program earned abroad, and the standard obtained; (4) The status of the awarding foreign school's recognition and legitimacy in its home country's education system; and (5) Any other information of interest such as what the evaluation service did to obtain this information, the qualifications of the evaluator, and any indications as to other problems such as forgery.

Note: Some positions require the completion of specific courses or a specified number of credit hours. Therefore, the foreign credential evaluation should provide information similar to that of an official transcript, to include a list of the courses taken, quarter and/or semester hours awarded, the cumulative grade point average (GPA), honors received, if any, date degree awarded.

Applicants can request an evaluation from a member organization of one of the two national associations of credential evaluation services listed below: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE) Credential evaluations are not free, and applicants are responsible for the cost of the selected service.

For more information about this requirement, please visit the https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

This position is with Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

The posted pay range is $107446 – $139684/yr.

This position is eligible for telework.

This position requires a Other security clearance.

Applications close on 2026-11-04.

This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.