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INTERDISCIPLINARY-BIOLOGIST/TOXICOLOGIST
JOB

INTERDISCIPLINARY-BIOLOGIST/TOXICOLOGIST

  • Job
  • Full-time

About the Position: This position is in the Defense Health Agency Public Health, Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), MD. To learn more, visit us at: https://ph.health.mil/Pages/default.aspx APG is in Harford County, Maryland, surrounded by the Bush River to the east and the Chesapeake Bay to the south, offering many amenities to include recreation and child/day care. Salary negotiation may be available for those candidates who are new to federal service. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation

Responsibilities
  • Serve as Division Chief, Health Effects Division responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing the work of a professional research staff engaged in environmental toxicological and health initiatives.
  • Act as consultant in environmental and industrial toxicology to DOW components as well as other organizations outside DoW, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration.
  • Conduct toxicological research to identify and assess potential impacts to service members, public, and environmental health as well as to support acquisition and risk assessment functions.
  • Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate basic and applied research efforts accomplished by teams of professional civilian and military biologists, toxicologists, and technicians engaged in performing complex qualitative and quantitative studies.
  • Analyze utilization of manpower in relation to requirements, identify and eliminate marginal activities, and devise an effective, economical organizational structure, manpower requirements, and functional assignments.
Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Required Documents

The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements. As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply.

If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further. 1. Your resume: Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages will be removed from consideration. For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show you can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement.

If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position. Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what's in your resume. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.

For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume. 2. Other supporting documents: Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable This position has an individual occupational requirement and/or allows for substitution of education for experience.

If you meet this requirement based on education you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your application package or you will be rated ineligible. See: Transcripts and Licenses. NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you.

You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.