Director, Laboratories Administration

Position: DIRECTOR, LABORATORIES ADMINISTRATION
Introduction RECRUITMENT REPOST. PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT REAPPLY.GRADE
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LOCATION OF POSITION
MDH Public Health Services
Laboratories Administration
1770 Ashland Avenue Baltimore MD 21205

Main Purpose of Job
This critical position provides executive leadership, scientific oversight, and strategic direction for the nationally-renowned Maryland Public Health Laboratories Administration. The Director oversees all operational, scientific, and administrative functions of the Maryland State Public Health Laboratory, ensuring compliance with regulations (COMAR, CLIA) to provide accurate relevant scientific data essential for disease prevention and control, environmental protection, and emergency response to numerous state, federal and local government partners, health care providers and communities across the state.

The Laboratories Administration has an annual budget of $60 million, including state and federal funds, and has a staff of over 200. This position oversees a central laboratory in Baltimore and two regional laboratories performing environmental testing.
This position ensures that the laboratory provides relevant, accurate, scientific data essential for disease prevention and control, environmental protection, addressing legal issues, developing public health policy, and responding to statewide public health threats caused by common or emerging biological, chemical and radiological agents.

This position is designated as Emergency Essential.

POSITION DUTIES
Position duties include, but are not limited to:
Assuring that
appropriate testing, technology, customer service, and technical support are
available to support public health programs. Providing leadership to plan, implement and evaluate new or modified
procedures and testing technologies as necessary.

Maintaining federal certification in accord
with Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and all other applicable
federal and state laws.

Assuring that
laboratory tests meet applicable federally mandated requirements, oversees and
approves laboratory improvement programs.

Overseeing the
development, implementation and evaluation of laboratory policies, goals and
objectives.  Assuring these elements are
in compliance with state, federal and regulatory laboratory standards,
practices, policies and regulations.

Overseeing staff,
budget, and resources of the state public health laboratory (SPHL) to assure
that services meet the highest quality standards, comply with state and federal
requirements, serve customer and stakeholder needs and are cost effective.

Coordinating the activities of the state's laboratory response network to provide rapid and effective laboratory services in support of the response to bioterrorism, naturally occurring infectious disease outbreaks and other public health threats and emergencies. Integrating public health preparedness and bioterrorism response program services.

Providing expert
consultative services in public health laboratory practice and in the
scientific areas of expertise to all professionals and customers who use the
services of the Laboratories Administration to representatives of other health
department agencies, and to various other State and federal agencies and
professional societies.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified candidates must:
(i.)(A) Hold an earned doctoral degree in a chemical, biological, clinical or medical laboratory science or medical technology from an accredited institution; or(B) Hold an earned doctoral degree; and (1) Have at least 16 semester hours of doctoral level coursework in biology, chemistry, medical technology (MT), clinical laboratory science (CLS), or medical laboratory science (MLS); or(2) An approved thesis or research project in…