Supervisory Regulatory Counsel

Summary

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. The incumbent serves as a Supervisory Regulatory Counsel in the Office of Compliance and Enforcement (OCE).

• Provides the full range of first level supervision to subordinate staff.
• Plans operations, programs, and activities, both in strategic planning and in actual determination, allocation and administration of support program functions and activities.
• Develops and implements CTP policies and plans, and makes critical decisions and provides expert advice in relation to OCE and CTP goals and objectives and Federal budgetary and economic realities.
• Works with representatives from the regulated business and full range of stakeholders to keep them abreast of the organizations' activities and to answer questions and share information.

• Citizenship Requirement:
  You must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for this advertisement unless explicitly stated otherwise.
• FDA participates in e-Verify:
  All new hires must complete the I-9 form; this information will be processed through e-Verify to determine your employment eligibility. If a discrepancy arises, you must take affirmative steps to resolve the matter.
• Selective Service Registration:
  All applicants born male, on (or after) 12/31/1959, must be registered with the Selective Service System OR have an approved exemption. Visit www.
  
  SSS.gov for more info.
• Background Investigation Requirement:
  All employees must pass a security investigation. Failing to pass the background check may be grounds for removal or legal action. If hired, you may be subject to additional investigations at a later time.
• Time-in-Grade Requirement:
  If you are applying as a current Federal employee, you must meet the time-in-grade requirements described in the Qualifications section, generally, 52-weeks of comparable experience at the next lowest grade.
• Certification of Accuracy:
  All information concerning eligibility and qualification is subject to investigation and verification. False representation may be grounds for non-consideration, non-selection, or appropriate legal action.
• You must meet ALL requirements by the closing date of this announcement to be considered. Only education, experience, and qualifications attained by this date will be considered. You must continue to meet all requirements through the hiring process.
• Direct Deposit:
  You will be required to have all federal salary payments electronically deposited into a bank account with a financial institution of your choice.
• Additional selections may be made from this vacancy, within the same geographical area, by other organizational elements from within FDA, through shared corporate recruiting activities.
• All applicants tentatively selected for this position will be required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment and be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-accident drug testing upon hiring.
• Appointment to the position will be contingent upon a negative applicant drug test result.
• Probationary periods are required for new employees appointed to competitive service positions for the first time; or reinstated employees who return after a break in service of 30-days or more and who have not completed a probationary period.
• Trial periods are required for all excepted service employees. Trial periods served in the same position and agency with no break in service will satisfy the requirement.

The position of Supervisory Regulatory Counsel falls within the 0301 occupational series. To qualify for this position at grade
GS-14, you must meet Time-in-Grade requirements by 11:59 pm EST on 07/22/2026.

Minimum Qualifications :
Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. The specialized experience must demonstrate one year of full-time work experience , or the equivalent if part-time (for example, an employee working 20 hours per week for a 12-month period should be credited with 6 months of experience.)

Experience may have been obtained in either the federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. GS-14:
You must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13, in the Federal service, which includes: supervising or leading professional staff; drafting, reviewing and finalizing complex regulatory and compliance documents; providing expert guidance and advice on regulatory or…