Total 41 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in 1775 Leidos Franklin Ctr Columbia MD

The Quality Assurance Specialist (Recorded Products) serves as an authority on the artistic. technical, and human factor elements required for controlled production of spoken word recordings, formulates and maintains quality control objectives for the various contracts with recording studios and multistate centers to insure continuous production of digital recorded books and magazines for the National Library Service.

This position requires elevated IT access to systems to perform the work of the position. This position requires a Public Trust background investigation at the Moderate risk level. Audits master digital recordings. for adherence to NLS standards and specifications. Certifies the quality acceptability of all audio material produced for the NLS program.

The incumbent performs electronic inspection and aural review of each narrated tape to assure sound quality. effective interpretation of the text, correct pronunciation and vocal presentation: prepares written critiques on the results of each inspection. Provides guidance and coordinates contractor and multistate center personnel related to the development of quality assurance programs and procedures, establishes programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of Incoming materials; develops and initiates methods and procedures for inspection, testing, and evaluation of contractor recording facilities and equipment and prospective narrators. As a staff specialist, develops, organizes. administers. evaluates, and coordinates a comprehensive computer software quality assurance program or programs for the assigned quality assurance area.

Applies electronic data processing techniques and equipment to tabulate and analyze quality assurance statistics. related to reliability of each source of narrated material. Develops, organizes, administers, evaluates, and coordinates a comprehensive materials and processes quality assurance program or programs for the assigned quality assurance area. Develops, organizes, administers, evaluates, and coordinates a comprehensive electronics quality assurance program for the assigned quality assurance area.

Reviews contractor's quality control plan, technical procedures. and practices to assure adequacy. Negotiates and coordinates issues pertaining to the electronics quality assurance program area. Prepares administrative reports, studies for appropriate personnel and documents related to work assignments or developmental activities conducted under broad supervisory guidance. Compiles and writes correspondence, manuals, specifications, instructive materials and articles for various publications relating to quality assurance of audio and digital materials.

Being a Customer Experience Strategist makes you a valuable member of the Office of Innovation. You will oversee the planning, coordination, development, and completion of complex and varied projects to extract, transform, and load data into relational and non-relational data stores. Typical assignments include:

• Incorporates modern techniques and methods to present information and material to target audiences.
• Develops mechanisms for gathering or using existing quantitative and qualitative data to help stakeholders understand their customers; develop insights to inform decision-making, identify and scope problems; and embark on new research areas worth exploring through innovative methods.
• Demonstrated the ability to effectively outline and identify business workflows and requirements.
• Work with stakeholders across organizations, functions, and levels to build customer understanding and solve challenging problems, empower teams to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems.
• Defines the overall goals and objectives of the user experience function or specific issues by meeting with OIG leadership.
• Provides input and recommendations to the development or changes on human centered design information for technical and operational feasibility and adherence with project objectives.
• Recommends actions on projects or broad, agency-wide strategic initiatives.
• Establishes a system to review, control and report on user experience development status.
• Designs and undertakes complex management studies, initiatives, or data gathering efforts, where the boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance, i.e., the actual limits of the project are developed as the study proceeds.
• Defines the overall goals and objectives of the customer experience function or specific issues by meeting with stakeholders.
• Works with customers to evaluate their mission requirements, identify the target audience, and define objectives/goals of the requested project, business flow or requirements where these may not have been identified.
• Documents, package and present findings, insights and recommendations via reports, presentations and/or other outputs as needed. Make research findings relevant and impactful for design and action through a variety of formats such as insights, stories, videos, experiences, and exhibits.
• Prepares reports summarizing proposed long- and short- term organizational customer experience goals.
• Communicates ideas, research, concepts, methods, analyses, evaluations, and makes recommendations in a logical and convincing manner.
• Facilitates regular discussions with customers to gather requirements, assess user experiences, and plan future work.
• Actively participates and plans meetings with customers focused on identifying workflows, requirements, problems and resolving issues.

As a Physician (Public Health) you will:

• Provide substantial input in the day-to-day technical and scientific planning, implementation, and analysis of the medical aspects of scientific research studies conducted by other scientists.
• Serve as a liaison with other Centers for Disease Control (CDC) organizational units, State and local public health officials, and other federal and non-governmental agencies, to achieve desired public health objectives.
• Oversee and serve as a project lead over EIS Officers, interns, students, and guest researchers assigned and provide consultation and direction on conceptualization, design, implementation, and presentation of the results of epidemiological/evaluation studies and surveillance projects conducted by junior scientists.
• Perform non-clinical duties involving the evaluation of medical research or the identification of causes or sources of disease or disease outbreaks.

As a Government Information Specialist (Compliance), GS-0306-12, your typical work assignments may include:

• Support PRIV's efforts to ensure that sound privacy and information sharing safeguards and policies are in place across the department to ensure that privacy compliance issues are addressed.
• Evaluate various reports, correspondence, and other agency materials to identify Privacy impact and risks.
• Support PRIVs efforts to ensure that sound privacy safeguards and policies are in place across the Department and make certain that privacy compliance issues are addressed throughout the Department in order to limit unauthorized access to personally identifiable information.
• Communicate official PRIV policies on privacy and compliance issues; and assists in developing and conducting privacy training for employees and contractors.

PHYSICIAN/DENTIST: SR-602 $145,000 - $310,000

NOTE: For Physician - Applicant's education and length of practice (experience) will be considered by a Compensation Panel in determining the salary of the applicant selected. Exceptions to the salary cap must be approved.

Work schedule: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week

Financial Disclosure Report: Required
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Relocation Expenses: Authorized

The Department of Veterans Affairs offers Permanent Change of Station (PCS) relocation services. Permanent Change of Station is the relocation of a household due to government convenience in connection with a transfer between duty stations or facilities. For more information go to http://vaww.fscdirect.fsc.va.gov/pcs.asp.

The Associate Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Patient Safety (Associate DUSH for QPS) is a direct report to the Deputy Under Secretary for Health (DUSH) and supports the overall work of the Office of the Under Secretary for Health (USH). The Associate DUSH for QPS provides national leadership in the formulation and establishment of effective health care policies, programs, and initiatives that fulfill the VHA's mission to provide personalized, pro-active, high quality, safe, reliable care for Veterans. The Associate DUSH for QPS is responsible for leading VHA on its journey toward becoming a high reliability organization and has oversight of VHA's performance measurement, quality and process improvement, safety, clinical risk management, systems redesign, accreditation, and data analytics and reporting programs. The office manages approximately 400 clinical and administrative professionals in the day-to-day operations of these key programmatic elements. The Associate DUSH for QPS serves in a direct consultative capacity to the Under Secretary for Health, serving as a national subject matter expert in the quality improvement and patient safety QPS directorate. The Associate DUSH for QPS works collaboratively with other Assistant Under Secretaries leading the strategic direction of the Veterans Health Administration.

Additionally, the Associate DUSH for QPS provides consultation to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs
and works closely with Veterans Service Organizations, Congress and their constituents, addressing the immediate and long-term needs of our Nation's Veterans.

As a Human Resources Specialist (Classification & Recruitment), you will:

• Serve as a technical expert providing the full range of support to managers and supervisors in the following: Classification and position management-related duties to include resolving difficult and complex position management and position classification issues involving a variety of professional, administrative, technical, law enforcement, and clerical positions.
• Serve as a technical expert on classification matters. Provide extensive assistance, advice and guidance to supervisors and managers to clarify and define duties and responsibilities of positions, interrelationships with other positions, and career patterns, determine the types of positions required and the most appropriate organizational structure, recommending options or alternative courses of action for attaining human resource management goals. Interpret, analyze, and prepare responses to new or proposed changes to complex legislative, regulatory, and policy guidance affecting classification.
• Serve as a technical expert in providing the full range of support to managers and supervisors in performing the following: complex position analysis to determine position requirements and area of consideration, utilize the most efficient techniques to fill vacancies and meet the goals of the Directorates/Offices served.
• Provide management with a wide range of flexible and innovative strategies in carrying out the full range of Delegated Examining Unit (DEU) for assigned areas. In this capacity, develop job analysis, crediting plans, vacancy announcements, position descriptions, assessment questionnaires, and other rating guides, reviews employment applications for minimum qualification requirements, adjudicates veterans' preference, and prepares Certificates of Eligibles and reviews contractor's work, as appropriate.
• Assist with various candidate onboarding duties and responsibilities.

As an unpaid summer 2025 intern, you will be asked to assist other attorneys in the office with legal research and writing; reviewing policies, regulations, statutes, and contracts; assisting with litigation matters; reviewing audit or investigative reports; reviewing subpoenas; assisting with other legal assignments as necessary. Student Volunteers will choose the volunteer service position they are interested in. The different volunteer service positions available are: Legal position, Field Examiner position, and Administrative Professional position. To learn more about the different volunteer service positions, please click on the position links.

• Responsible for packaging draft and final audit reports and analyzing the reports to ensure that these audit reports do not contain personally identifiable information (PII).
• Responsible for using Adobe Acrobat software to redact PII from audit reports. Responsible for distributing draft and final reports issued from OAS Headquarters to HHS OPDIVs and keeping OAS Headquarters and Regional management apprised of the status of the report distribution.
• Responsible for ensuring that audit reports posted to the HHS-OIG Internet are Section 508 compliant and accessible to persons with disabilities.
• Responsible for analyzing the report for section 508 compliance and if necessary, remediating the audit report using the appropriate software tools.
• Assists Regional Program Support Specialists in making their audit reports Section 508 compliant.
• Design, develop, and maintain the OAS Intranet site.
• Ensures that reports prepared for the internet are complete, accurate, and uploaded in a timely manner.
• Implements enhancements in response to OAS changing needs.
• Prepare final audit reports for posting to the OIG website, in accordance with OIG Public Affairs guidelines.
• Coordinate posting of final audit reports to the OIG website by the legislatively required timeframe with Office of Management and Policy (OMP) technology staff.
• Coordinate with OIG Executive Secretariat on the processing and distribution of OAS draft and final audit reports.
• Keep OAS management and program support specialists apprised of the status of final and draft audit reports and other OIG correspondence.

As a Supervisory Resource Management Specialist you will:

• Identify and integrate internal and external issues affecting the immediate organization, such as those involving technical and administrative factors.
• Integrate the work of the team where each member contributes a portion of the analyses, facts, information, proposed actions, or recommendations; and/or ensure compatibility and consistency of interpretation, judgment, logic, and application of policy.
• Oversee the resource management and strategic acquisition planning as well as the development and dissemination of technical documentation to support the Division.
• Improve program efficiencies through process improvement and solution development, workforce management and development.

As a Supervisory Health Scientist you will:

• Identify and integrate internal and external issues affecting the immediate organization, such as those involving technical and administrative factors.
• Integrate the work of the team where each member contributes a portion of the analyses, facts, information, proposed actions, or recommendations; and/or ensures compatibility and consistency of interpretation, judgment, logic, and application of policy.
• Serve as a recognized expert in health sciences for the agency with responsibility for developing policy and objectives, appraising programs, and initiating requirements for the health benefits model that provides medically necessary treatment and monitoring to survivors and responders and Pentagon and Shanksville responders because of the 9/11 attacks.
• Serve as advisor for the planning, design, implementation, and analysis of projects.

As a Supervisory Sanctions Compliance Officer, you will:
- Identify technical and practical issues regarding the financial sector and OFAC compliance, prepare policy papers and recommendations for senior Treasury management, and clearly articulate the reasons for recommending particular courses of action.
- Write, develop, update, format, publish, and disseminate a wide array of OFAC sanctions publications and materials relating to the financial industry, in both hard and electronic copies.
- Represent OFAC at outreach events, especially financial industry conferences.
- Interpret regulations and program policies for use by other specialists or analysts when standard methods are questioned, challenged, or inadequate.
- Make recommendations to senior officials on OFAC compliance programs and policies.

As a Public Health Analyst (Policy & Issues Management) you will:

• Develop projects to identify, review, and analyze complex and highly visible actions such as public health legislation, executive directives, Departmental policy issuances, voluntary changes in practice by influential organizations or groups, as well as other problems, issues, or program requirements that may be unstable or complex and that have the potential to impact public health as well as the activities of the division, center, and/or coordinating center.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with other organizational units within Centers for Disease Control (CDC) including other national centers, and offices within the CDC Office of the Director, CDC Washington, FMO/Leg, and others; other Federal agencies and quasi-governmental groups such as the CDC Foundation; and other key partners including national and international organizations.
• Develop new public health programmatic initiatives and assess issues of importance to the mission and activities of the program.
• Identify strategic programmatic and public health areas in need of strengthening as well as new areas for program development.
• Respond to Congressional/Executive Branch inquiries and correspondence requesting information regarding CDC strategies, programs, and responses to health problems; data; and general information requested about health problems.
• Develop materials to explain programs to the general public and to specific groups including Congressional staff, legislative committees and subcommittees, state policy makers, Departmental and other executive branch officials, and other groups interested in specific program activities.

As a Public Health Analyst (Policy) you will:

• Provide leadership, expert technical advice, and coordination in policy research and policy development that will influence public health practice.
• Conduct extensive research and develops subject matter expertise.
• Develop, reports and presentations to inform senior management officials, CDC leadership, HHS, administration officials, and members of the legislative branch.
• Develop reports that reflect an in-depth analysis and interpretation of policy matters involving relevant public health issues.

As a Program Specialist you will:

• Serve as the Study Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) coordinator and principal point of contact for eClearance within the Institute.
• Manage, oversee, and coordinate the clearance process, ensure adherence to Department, agency and organization clearance policies, processes agency clearance requests, and maintain clearance-related files (e.g., journal articles, abstracts, presentations, technical reports, fact sheets, and electronic materials)
• Provide technical assistance and consultation to organizational staff in the planning and development of funding packages and STARS funding determination requests.
• Develop, coordinate, and conduct clearance-related training for Institute employees.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and improve systems to coordinate nominations for the organization's awards program.
• Maintain and monitor project tracking and reporting systems to develop status reports and response materials.
• Plan and/or support committees, boards, or conferences.
• Establish annual budget and monitor spending and travel expenditures.
• Manage training requests, contracts, and procurement.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Schedules, plans, and conducts comprehensive, on-site and virtual reviews of small- to mid-sized FAS cooperators, participants, grant recipients, and private voluntary organizations' financial systems.
• Conducts analysis of the following areas (but not limited to): micro purchase credit card transactions; representation fund expenses; administration of petty cash; unliquidated obligations; travel vouchers; procurement actions and expenses.
• Prepares and submits comprehensive and well-documented review file workpapers to the supervisor or designated senior specialist for review.
• Assists senior level Compliance Review Specialists with conducting special surveys, studies, and reviews of FAS programs, policies, and procedures and prepares recommendations for improvement.
• Assists in reviewing and evaluating existing and proposed legislation and regulations to determine the impact they may have on FAS operational systems, and whether they have adequate safeguards to detect or prevent fraud, waste, and mismanagement.
• Assesses internal controls of the organizations for: adequacy of safeguarding FAS resources; accuracy and reliability of data furnished to FAS; and compliance with laws, regulations, and policies.