The NIH is a leader in medical breakthroughs, with the discovery of new biological molecules, processes and pathways, novel medical technologies, and innovative applications of existing medical knowledge. Many important medical breakthroughs begin in research laboratories at the NIH, and Technology transfer begins in these laboratories and makes these discoveries available to improve public health through licensing and collaboration agreements with the private sector. The Deputy Director will serve as an alter ego to the Director and will also manage the office’s License Compliance and Administration Unit, which administers NIH’s large and diverse invention license portfolio. 

Duties

• Serves as a full deputy and alter ego to the OTT Director, and fully shares the direction of all phases of the organization's program and work as required by the Director. Oversight involves creating a work environment dedicated to customer service; implementing strategies that maximize employee potential; fostering high standards of excellence; developing program effectiveness measures; acquiring and administering resources as an Agency representative while instilling public trust and accomplishing the missions of OTT and the NIH; and building key professional relationships that benefit OTT and the NIH technology transfer community.
• Maintains effective collaborative relationships and liaises with the IC Technology Development Coordinators (TDCs) and corresponding technology transfer offices, the HHS Office of the General Counsel (OGC), and the NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP) in order to help ensure alignment of OTT's services with the needs and priorities of the Institutes and Centers and the overall NIH intramural research program.
• Provides leadership, oversight and direction of the License Compliance and Administration Unit and performs the full range of supervisory functions in directing the unit.
  Serves as OTT lead in seeking to obtain a fair financial return on the public's investment through the administration of licenses and to ensure that licensees diligently pursue development of NIH and CDC technologies to benefit the public health.
• Serves as the OTT's principal authority on Royalties Administration and Monitoring and Enforcement. Supervises unit that manages a license portfolio of over 1,000 active licenses that provide between $78M - $600M+ in royalties annually, focused on healthcare technologies including therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines.
• Furthers the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by taking positive steps to accomplish affirmative action objectives; practicing nondiscrimination in employment with regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, parental status, lawful political affiliation, marital status, union membership, and non-disqualifying physical or mental disability; and initiating nondiscriminatory practices and affirmative action within the following areas of responsibility.

This opportunity is open from Monday, November 18, 2024 to Friday, November 22, 2024. More information can be found on usajobs:

NIH-OD-MP-25-12597938  https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/819344300

NIH-OD-DE-25-12597924  https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/819339200