Job Description
Senior Advisor for External Affairs
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Summary
As a global leader in public health & health promotion, CDC is the agency Americans trust with their lives. In addition to our everyday work, each CDC employee has a role in supporting public health emergency management, whether through temporary assignments to emergency responses or sustaining other CDC programs and activities while colleagues respond. Join our team to use your talent, training, & passion to help CDC continue as the world's premier public health organization. Visit www.cdc.gov
Duties
The Senior Level (SL) system is for positions classified above GS-15 that do not meet the criteria for the Senior Executive Service (SES), nor do they involve the fundamental research and development responsibilities that are characteristic of the Scientific or Professional (ST) system.
This Senior Level (SL) position is with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Immediate Office of the Director (IOD), Deputy Director for Policy, Communication, and Legislative Affairs (DDPCLA), Atlanta, Georgia.
As Senior Advisor for External Affairs, you will:
plan, develop and implement agency policies and strategies related to external affairs, ensuring an opportunity for CDC leaders to contribute to such efforts;
provide leadership for the agency in several program areas with special intergovernmental focus, facilitating CDC responsiveness, and promoting understanding of agency goals;
collaborate across the agency to integrate external affairs with congressional affairs; communications, policy and other strategic functions;
research and evaluate key public health policies, procedures, and guidelines to advise and to meet specific external affairs needs in coordination with relevant senior leaders;
ensure effectiveness of policy review and evaluation of intergovernmental and external affairs;
represent CDC senior leadership with the private sector, officials of other federal agencies, officials of state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and nongovernmental organizations;
serve as a liaison with policy-level officials to ensure respective views and interests are promoted with respect to current and emerging policy issues;
serve as a liaison in strengthening relationships and collaborations across CDC with governors and their key officials, county and city officials, and others on the effect of national goals of health and human services.