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Scientific and Administrative Support for Human Health Assessments

The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full time Scientific and Administrative Support for Human Health Assessments position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Cincinnati, OH.
The Office of Research and Development at the EPA supports high-quality research to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its environmental goals. Research is conducted in a broad range of environmental areas by scientists in EPA laboratories and at universities across the country.
What the EPA project is about
The Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) provides the science needed to understand the complex interrelationship between people and nature in support of assessments and policy to protect human health and ecological integrity. Within CPHEA, the Health and Environmental Effects Assessment Division (HEEAD) develops scientific assessments on human health or environmental risk of chemicals or stressors to inform EPA programs and regions, producing a portfolio of assessment products that serve different programmatic needs.
What experience and skills will you gain?
As a team member, you will assist with risk assessment and technical support programs as requested by various staff leaders. A mentor will be assigned to be your primary point of contact for coordinating, obtaining approval, and scheduling all work requests from staff leaders. You will be a member of an exciting, highly motivated, and inter-disciplinary team of researchers and managers to perform tasks associated with health assessments, research projects, and scientific publications focused on human health risk assessment and toxicology.
How you will apply your skills
Project management support and analysis:
  • Proof-reading, editing and formatting of technical documents and presentations.
  • Note-taking at technical meetings.
  • Database searches for existing, peer-reviewed toxicological information and reference values.
  • Interact with staff working to maintain and update literature used for NCEA assessments, and make it readily accessible.
  • Product development (flow)management.
  • Records and data curation management.
Quality assurance and quality control of technical product:
  • Assisting with quality assurance functions and activities of hazard assessment and technical support programs by quickly learning and applying established QA procedures and protocols to ensure information used for Agency decisions are scientifically sound, legally defensible, and of known and acceptable quality for their intended uses.
Communications:
  • Participate as an active and contributing member of an inter-disciplinary research team.
  • Interact with other team members involved with the administration, management, budget, peer review, clearance, and public release of products.
  • Populate, curate and/or maintain centralized information repositories.
  • Assist project leads with the collection and distribution of information to team members and other staff.
Qualifications
  • Voluntary service, paid or unpaid internships, or actual work experience relatingto protecting human health or theenvironment.
  • Strong written, oral, and electronic communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills with a keen attention to detail.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office applications (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook).
  • Experience in maintaining and updating information and performing analyses with spreadsheet or database software programs.
  • Experience in performing online searches for academic and other peer-reviewed, scientific literature.
  • Excellent typing, proof reading, and technical editing skills