Total 151 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Atlanta, GA

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 and Prevention (CDC) including other national centers, and offices within the CDC Office of the Director, CDC Washington, Field Marketing Organization (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:

• Perform analysis of public health legislation, regulations, executive directives, departmental policy issuances, as well as other influential statements of policy.
• Apply agency, department, and/or government wide evaluation efforts to program activities.
• Develop the organization's goals management plan as well as short and long-range goals and objectives.
• Work on coordinating budget formulation activities for the organization by working with contacts in the program, the organization's resource management office as well as with contacts outside the organization.
• Develop timely and complete responses to Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and others, and ensures consistency with organization and DHHS policies
• Manage linkages and relationships with a variety external organizations, including national, state and local organizations as well as other Federal agencies.

As a Health Communications Specialist you will:

• Lead the development, implementation, and management, and evaluation of major national or international communication and marketing programs, projects, and strategies for the lay and professional audiences, including innovative demonstration projects.
• Direct and guide development, testing, and timely dissemination of science- and audience-based products, tools, and messages to different audiences (i.e., general public, external organizations, partners, and media) in a variety of formats (i.e., print, video, Web).
• Provide expert consultation and technical expertise in the creation of strategic and integrated plans and strategies for public health communication and marketing programs, campaigns, and activities.
• Lead or conduct research and evaluation activities related to health communication and marketing.
• Work with management to ensure that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision and values are integrated into the health communication or marketing program or project's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products, and services.
• Serve as a liaison between agency and other CIO communication and marketing staff on agency-wide issues and networks with a variety of external stakeholders (e.g., health officials in federal, state, and local agencies, officials of other countries and international organizations, communication experts, and representatives of the general public).
• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work, when necessary.

As a Lead Health Scientist, you will:

• Design, oversee, implement, and conduct major scientific surveys/studies or projects to identify and solve public health problems.
• Identify and analyze public health issues and their impact on operations that are critical to the public health community at large.
• Provide technical advice and assistance to national, state and local health agencies and universities in the development and implementation of birth defects and developmental disabilities surveillance systems including the use of surveillance data for prevention and early intervention programs.
• Ensure that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.

As a Lead Health Scientist you will:

• Design, oversee, implement, and conduct major scientific surveys/studies or projects to identify and solve public health problems.
• Identify and analyze public health issues and their impact on operations that are critical to the public health community at large.
• Provide technical advice and assistance to national, state and local health agencies and universities in the development and implementation of birth defects and developmental disabilities surveillance systems including the use of surveillance data for prevention and early intervention programs.
• Ensure that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.

As a Workforce and Career Development Advisor you will:

• Provide leadership for the Division's workforce development program; collaborate with internal stakeholders, and other agency officials to formulate program goals, objectives, and broad operational guidelines.
• Develop and direct Human Capital initiatives, as they relate to Division programs, activities, and services.
• Plan, formulate, and implement a comprehensive organizational development program for the organization, including activities in skills assessment, conflict resolution, workforce relations, workforce planning and organizational design.
• Identify problems, study possible alternatives, and develop workable solutions to improve the effectiveness of the organization as well as the development of its workforce.
• Plan, develop, and coordinate methods to assist employees in all areas of development and personal growth.
• Plan, formulate, and implement a comprehensive organizational development program for the division with special emphasis on equity, skills assessment, conflict resolution, workforce relations, training, administration, workforce planning, and organizational design.
• Develop and provide briefings to management concerning labor-management relations program and procedural changes.

As a Behavioral Scientist (Suicide Prevention), you will:

• Initiate interdisciplinary, cutting-edge scientific discovery on the individual, relationship, community, and societal factors contributing to suicide, .and apply epidemiological, behavioral, and social science perspectives for the primary prevention of suicide.
• Conduct and support rigorous evaluation and implementation research on innovative and promising suicide prevention programs, policies, and practices.
• Provide expertise in research in suicide, which may include but is not limited to epidemiological investigations or translational and implementation science and technical assistance, consultation, and/or scientific oversight of complex and innovative suicide prevention surveillance, research, or evaluation projects.
• Integrate multicultural, community-based intervention research with implementation science and suicide prevention and associated risk and protective factor activities
• Collaborate with internal staff and external government agencies, private organizations, and other stakeholders to develop and accomplish program objectives.

As a Behavioral Scientist (Suicide Prevention) you will:

• Initiate interdisciplinary, cutting-edge scientific discovery on the individual, relationship, community, and societal factors contributing to suicide, .and apply epidemiological, behavioral, and social science perspectives for the primary prevention of suicide.
• Conduct and support rigorous evaluation and implementation research on innovative and promising suicide prevention programs, policies, and practices.
• Provide expertise in research in suicide, which may include but is not limited to epidemiological investigations or translational and implementation science and technical assistance, consultation, and/or scientific oversight of complex and innovative suicide prevention surveillance, research, or evaluation projects.
• Integrate multicultural, community-based intervention research with implementation science and suicide prevention and associated risk and protective factor activities
• Collaborate with internal staff and external government agencies, private organizations, and other stakeholders to develop and accomplish program objectives.

As a Senior Advisor (Change Management) you will:

• Coordinate, facilitate, and oversee a portfolio of enterprise-wide transformation and change management projects and initiatives that support CDC strategies to create and sustain a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement in the workplace.
• Provide guidance and leadership to CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices (CIOs) and Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry (ATSDR) in establishing an enterprise change management framework and developing and implementing trainings and communications.
• Serve as primary liaison for projects and initiatives (e.g., responsibility and authority over project staff, financial resources, planning, execution, problem solving, delivery of outcomes, and integration with other efforts).
• Monitor progress towards organizational goals and make adjustments as appropriate.
• Develop comprehensive, targeted, and streamlined strategies to meet objectives to raise awareness and implement change management activities.
• Collect data, perform quantitative and qualitative analyses, and document the results in formal reports and presentations.
• Design systems and solutions covering the full spectrum of transformation and change management.

As a Program Management Officer you will:

• Prepare annual budget plans and justifications and manages the approved budget.
• Assess all new projects to ensure that sound managerial concepts and practices are being applied and that budget estimates are accurate, complete, and within the resources of the organization, with authority to approve, modify, or delay projects as appropriate or necessary.
• Develop the management policies and program goals and objectives of the organization in coordination with senior management officials, as required.
• Perform supervisory duties for a small contingent of staff to include planning work, setting and adjusting short term priorities, and preparing schedules.

Join us! Be a part of CDC's Moving Forward initiative by serving your Career Community in a Career Broadening position as a Supervisory Workforce and Career Development Specialist. Your contributions will help set strategy, policy, and drive coordinated and integrated talent models at the Enterprise level. Using your technical and operational expertise, you will provide support to your career community to help develop a Workforce Prepared for Future Emergencies. We want you to be a part of this ground-breaking high-performance team!

The primary purpose of the positions is to provide Career Broadening developmental experiences designed to broaden the skills and/or enhance leadership perspectives. Once selected, you will be on a career broadening assignment for 24 to 48 months and deliberately outplaced by Career Community Leadership in conjunction with your inputs. You will be required to sign a Memorandum of Agreement to accept the position.

As a Supervisory Workforce and Career Development Specialist for the Biological & Physical Science Labratory Career Community you will:

Perform Career Broadening assignments/duties:
Serve as a Supervisory Workforce and Career Development Specialist Chief, of the Biological & Physical Science Lab Career Community Support Team.

• Develop, maintain, and implement the talent management and career development plan for the assigned career community.
• Provide a central focus for an enterprise approach to employee development by integrating programs and processes into long-range business plans and talent management requirements.
• Directly support the assigned Career Community Leader and the Career Community Panel, made up of leaders from the assigned career community, and the Chief, Career Community Support Team.
• Collaborate and partner with internal and external stakeholders and serve as a technical expert in the assigned career community.

As a Administrative Officer you will:

• Advise on human resource management strategies for the serviced organization.
• Recommend space allocations for the serviced organizations and provides analysis or reallocations of space.
• Advise on contracting and negotiation procedures and development of inter/intra agency agreements, reimbursable agreements, and grants management.
• Prepare travel orders, vouchers, change-of-station, and relocation travel authorizations.
• Oversee the formulation of the operating budget, activities, and program authorizations.
• Analyze and develop documentation to recommend policy regarding realignment of functions and distribution of personnel resource allocations.
• Improve productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency in program operations and/or administrative support activities.
• Establish criteria to measure and/or predict the attainment of program or organizational goals and objectives.

As a Research Science Officer you will:

• Participate in Division policy and planning and is responsible for accomplishing the mission of the Division.
• Direct and provide expert advice with respect to development of public health research systems.
• Prepare or review the preparation of all reports, articles or monographs describing findings from studies or projects conducted as part of the research and services programs noted above.
• Participate in policy and planning determination pertaining to the Division's research program
• Support staff in their scientific writing competency.

As a Health Scientist you will:

• Serve as senior scientific public health advisor and management coordinator of national and international scientific public health program activities.
• Serve on review committees, study groups, public health task groups, or comparable groups delegated responsibility for reviewing and developing public health policies, procedures and guidelines as they relate to programs.
• Participate in projects and program evaluations assuring that periodic Office reviews are accurate and timely.
• Supervise a small contingent of positions.

As a Budget Analyst you will:

• Perform complex budget development, formulation and/or execution functions for substantive agency programs or administrative budget areas.
• Monitor, review and reconcile commitments, obligations, reimbursable orders, etc.
• Work with managers and program specialists in the development of annual work plans and schedules for the execution of approved budgets.
• Review, analyze, and interpret existing and proposed legislation, appropriation language, executive orders, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars and bulletins.
• Provide expert advice and recommendations for budgetary actions.
• Develop cost-benefit analysis of proposed budgetary and program actions and advise agency officials and program managers of most advantageous courses of action.