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Description:

This position is located in the Office of Environmental Health & Engineering, in the California Area Indian Health Service, Arcata District Office. This position is responsible for independently planning, developing and implementing a comprehensive environmental health program on assigned reservations; Safe water, solid and hazardous waste management, food protection, occupational health and safety, vector control, community injury prevention.

Duties

• Plans, implements and evaluates a comprehensive environmental health program on assigned reservations that emphasizes safe water, solid and hazardous waste management, food protection, occupational health and safety, vector control, community injury prevention, healthy homes, and institutional health.
• Conducts comprehensive environmental health surveys of all IHS, and tribal facilities including; schools, head starts, day care centers, gaming facilities, health care, recreational facilities, Industrial operations and drug rehabilitation facilities on assigned reservations.
• Build tribal capacity to manage environmental health hazards in their community by assisting with the development of environmental health and occupational safety policies, procedures, regulations, employee training programs ad public education materials.
• Serves as a technical consultant to tribal program managers and leaders by assisting them with environmental health hazard identification and mitigation.
• Performs epidemiological and infection control investigations to identify environmental factors with the potential for transmission of disease.
• Serves as the Community Injury Prevention facilitator for assigned Tribes by assisting with the development of an interdisciplinary and epidemiological approach to reduce injuries.

Skills/Eligibility:

BASIC REQUIREMENT:
Education - Bachelor’s or graduate/higher level degree: major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position. This degree must be from an educational program from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.

In addition, to the Basic Requirements, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications stated below-

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
For GS-7: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-5 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the private or public sector) performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Conducting standardized environmental health inspections and investigative methods to reduce environmentally related illness and injury risks. Contribute to the instruction of environmental health related training to reduce communicable diseases and injury.
OR
Completion of one (1) year of graduate level education, or Superior Academic Achievement (S.A.A.) in a field that is directly related to the work of this position. For information on S.A.A. go to: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4f
OR
Combination of education and experience are qualifying for this grade level. Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements.

For GS-9: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks: Implementation and management of field-based programs designed to identify, assess, and recommend mitigation strategies to prevent and eliminate environmental health hazards.
OR
2 years of progressively higher level education leading to a master’s degree, or master’s or equivalent graduate degree.
OR
Combination of education and experience are qualifying for this grade level. Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. Only education in excess of the first year of graduate level education may be used to qualify applicants for GS-9 positions.