Senior Clinical Science Advisor (Part Time On Call)
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)
Job Family:
Science and Research
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Clinical Research, Government Regulation, Real World Evidence (RWE)Certifications:
NoneExperience:
15 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
Solve real-world challenges that impact the frontlines of public health, life science, and clinical research initiatives as a Senior Clinical Science Advisor at GDIT. You’ll support the mission and grow with it, building a meaningful career in health.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Senior Clinical Science Advisor, the work you’ll do at GDIT will directly support the mission of Federal Health agencies within the Department of Health & Human Services. You will play a crucial role in advancing evidence-based policy initiatives, clinical trial innovation, regulatory transformation, and real-world data services that improve health outcomes and accelerate scientific decision making. You will also provide broad consulting with technical Federal Health teams to address the customer’s clinical science needs across biomedical, public health, and regulatory domains.
· Support emergent real time clinical trial activities and related regulatory transformation such as new paradigms for validating clinical evidence, novel clinical trial data analyses, and modernized clinical trial operations.
· Support development and implementation of Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Real World Data (RWD) strategies that inform regulatory, policy, and scientific priorities.
· Provide scientific advising and consulting across a range of biomedical, clinical, and public health areas, ensuring sound methodology, scientific integrity, and alignment with agency standards.
· Collaborate with internal and external cross-functional teams—including data scientists, program managers, policy experts, and customer stakeholders—to ensure scientific rigor and mission alignment.
· Drive scientific insight, problem solving, and recommendations that enable customers to modernize workflows, accelerate program execution, and achieve measurable mission impact.
· Serve as a scientific reviewer and advisor for program initiatives, supporting study design, evidence generation, data interpretation, and best practices for evaluation.
· Utilize expertise in regulatory science, biomedical research, and evidence frameworks to guide program decisions, develop methodologies, and support mission-critical projects.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your life sciences expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Clinical Science Advisor must have:
· Education: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in a life science or related discipline.
· Experience: 15+ years of related scientific, regulatory, or biomedical research experience.
· Leadership Experience managing large scientific teams; leading scientific studies; and representing clients in government facing activities.
· Technical skills: Experience with RWE/RWD methodologies, regulatory science policy, scientific consulting, and public health or biomedical research methods.
· Security clearance level: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. US person is required.
· Role requirements: Remote work model with potential travel; ability to collaborate across multiple Operating Divisions within HHS; flexibility to support general scientific consulting needs across programs
The likely salary range for this position is $54,094 - $73,185. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
8
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Remote
Work Location:
Any Location / Remote
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events atgdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)
Job Family:
Science and Research
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Clinical Research, Government Regulation, Real World Evidence (RWE)Certifications:
NoneExperience:
15 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
Solve real-world challenges that impact the frontlines of public health, life science, and clinical research initiatives as a Senior Clinical Science Advisor at GDIT. You’ll support the mission and grow with it, building a meaningful career in health.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Senior Clinical Science Advisor, the work you’ll do at GDIT will directly support the mission of Federal Health agencies within the Department of Health & Human Services. You will play a crucial role in advancing evidence-based policy initiatives, clinical trial innovation, regulatory transformation, and real-world data services that improve health outcomes and accelerate scientific decision making. You will also provide broad consulting with technical Federal Health teams to address the customer’s clinical science needs across biomedical, public health, and regulatory domains.
· Support emergent real time clinical trial activities and related regulatory transformation such as new paradigms for validating clinical evidence, novel clinical trial data analyses, and modernized clinical trial operations.
· Support development and implementation of Real-World Evidence (RWE) and Real World Data (RWD) strategies that inform regulatory, policy, and scientific priorities.
· Provide scientific advising and consulting across a range of biomedical, clinical, and public health areas, ensuring sound methodology, scientific integrity, and alignment with agency standards.
· Collaborate with internal and external cross-functional teams—including data scientists, program managers, policy experts, and customer stakeholders—to ensure scientific rigor and mission alignment.
· Drive scientific insight, problem solving, and recommendations that enable customers to modernize workflows, accelerate program execution, and achieve measurable mission impact.
· Serve as a scientific reviewer and advisor for program initiatives, supporting study design, evidence generation, data interpretation, and best practices for evaluation.
· Utilize expertise in regulatory science, biomedical research, and evidence frameworks to guide program decisions, develop methodologies, and support mission-critical projects.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your life sciences expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Senior Clinical Science Advisor must have:
· Education: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in a life science or related discipline.
· Experience: 15+ years of related scientific, regulatory, or biomedical research experience.
· Leadership Experience managing large scientific teams; leading scientific studies; and representing clients in government facing activities.
· Technical skills: Experience with RWE/RWD methodologies, regulatory science policy, scientific consulting, and public health or biomedical research methods.
· Security clearance level: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. US person is required.
· Role requirements: Remote work model with potential travel; ability to collaborate across multiple Operating Divisions within HHS; flexibility to support general scientific consulting needs across programs
The likely salary range for this position is $54,094 - $73,185. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
8
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Remote
Work Location:
Any Location / Remote
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events atgdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans