Join the NIH Office of Technology Transfer as a Technology Licensing Monitoring & Enforcement Specialist. 

This position is located within the Monitoring and Enforcement Unit (MEU) of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) within the Office of the Director (OD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH OTT protects, monitors, markets, and manages the wide range of NIH discoveries, inventions, and other intellectual property as mandated by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 and related legislation.

At the full performance level, you will be responsible for the following:

• Develop annual monitoring plan for review of licenses.
• Monitor exclusive license activities on an annual basis.
• Conduct reviews of nonexclusive licenses at least once a year.
• Conduct and often serve as a lead member in review of the status of license compliance with license terms.
• Develop and maintain a monitoring file associated with each license and record review activities, findings if any, actions taken, and the final resolution.
• Conduct follow-up with licensees' cases referred by the OTT Royalties Administration staff or others, either internal (government) or external (non-governmental) stakeholders, who believe there may be a compliance or reporting problem with a particular licensee or license.
• Work with senior NIH staff to review allegations when information is received claiming a licensee is not pursuing commercialization and requesting the NIH to exercise its right to amend or terminate the license under 35 USC 290(d)(3).
   

Applications are accepted between August 30, and September 3, 2024. 

Further information can be found on the USAJobs listings:

Delegated Examination: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/806510800 

Merit Promotion:  https://www.usajobs.gov/job/806509900