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Employer
National Institute of Mental Health
Location
Rockville, Maryland
Salary
The salary range is based on experience and the range varies, $190,000 to $250,000.
Closing date
Aug 22, 2022

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Sector
Government
Job Function
Other
Position Type
Full Time
Level
Any Experience Level Considered

Job Details

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH)

Director, Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR)

 

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental illnesses. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.

 

Position Overview The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is seeking exceptional candidates for the Director, Division of Services and Intervention Research reporting to the NIMH Director.  The Director will provide scientific leadership and executive direction for a national program of practice-oriented research that aims to improve mental health outcomes across a range of disorders, age groups, and treatment settings.  The Division is composed of two (2) scientific program branches – the Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch and the Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch – and the Office of Research Training and Career Development and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.  The selectee will also be responsible for managing twenty-six (26) professional and administrative staff from interdisciplinary backgrounds, including medical officers. 

 

The Director, DSIR position is situated uniquely at the intersection of mental health research, evidence-based clinical practice, and public health policy concerning mental health care. To support the overall NIMH mission, the DSIR Director must be able to provide leadership in developing and executing a scientific agenda that advances evidence-based services for children, adolescents, youth, and adults and strives to eliminate mental health disparities in minority, marginalized, and vulnerable populations across a range of treatment settings. By closing gaps in knowledge, the research agenda is designed to influence emerging practice standards for common mental disorders, serious emotional disturbance, and serious mental illness.

 

The selectee must also be able to collaborate actively with other NIMH Divisions, Offices, and Teams on cross-cutting research themes including basic, translational, and applied studies in prevention, comorbid conditions, health disparities, workforce diversity, global mental health, and computational approaches that harness the power of big data. The incumbent must be able to proactively communicate scientific advances in mental health care to other federal agencies (e.g., Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), including policy-relevant findings regarding scalable interventions and quantitative methods for measuring intervention fidelity, quality, and impact in real-world settings.  The selectee will also work directly with national professional and lay organizations, and other non-profits with shared public mental health interest, to gather broad perspectives on unmet needs, knowledge gaps, and scientific opportunities in mental health prevention, treatment, and service delivery.

 

The Director is also responsible for coordinating and integrating activities for the Office of the Director, NIMH with other NIH Institutes and program officials; with DHHS components regarding the aspects of the programs that are of mutual interest and concern; and with the various national agencies, private foundations, and professional and lay organizations with common interests. The incumbent will be responsible for expanding NIMH’s capacity to foster relevant research by building partnerships with other NIH Institutes, DHHS components, and outside organizations using joint workshops, mentoring arrangements, scientific conferences, and training programs.

 

  Qualifications Applicants must have extensive experience in Federal research grants administration and either a M.D. with a specialty in psychiatry and/or Ph.D. or other doctoral degrees in a mental health relevant discipline. In addition, the incumbent must have outstanding scientific competence; broad senior level research experience in administration and management of a major national research program; and be recognized as a national leader in research on mental health interventions, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices, health services research, health disparities research, and/or public health policy.  The incumbent must demonstrate experience in strategic planning, proactive research portfolio management, strategic planning, and leadership of team science efforts.

 

This position also requires superior executive leadership and communication skills to effectively brief NIMH, NIH, HHS, and Congressional staff on near-term research initiatives aimed at improving clinical practice; eliminating disparities in treatment access, quality, and outcomes; informing health care policy; and improving mental health metrics at the population level. The incumbent must successfully manage these key roles while remaining sensitive to the special audiences he/she is addressing.

 

How to Apply

 Applications must include a CV and a letter of intent including a mission statement and/or vision for this position.  Applications will be accepted between 06/01/2022 and 08/01/22.  Please send these materials to NIMHsearch@mail.nih.gov. Contact Melissa M. Kopyto, NIMH Supervisory Management Analyst at melissa.kopyto@nih.gov  or (301) 827-2862 if you have any questions.

 

Benefits

The DSIR Director will be appointed at a salary commensurate with his/her qualifications and experience. In addition, full federal benefits, including leave, health and life insurance, long-term care insurance, retirement, and savings plan (401K equivalent), will be provided.

 

DHHS and NIH are equal opportunity employers

The NIH is dedicated to building a diverse community in its training and employment programs and encourages the application and nomination of qualified women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities.

 

 

 

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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders.

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