This job was posted by https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov/jobs/4189300 We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced person to join our inter-disciplinary Applied Public Health (APH) Practice Area as an Exposure and Risk Assessor Scientist. The APH team is a multi-disciplinary group of experts that work to solve our clients\' most pressing public health regulatory challenges. This position will provide subject matter expertise in public health exposures, toxicology, and risk assessment for various public and private sector clients. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of exposure and risk assessment principles, public health regulatory frameworks, and the ability to navigate complex public health challenges in a team environment.

Project Technical Support: This position will provide scientific technical direction on smaller projects or components of larger complex public health assessment projects. In that role, the individual will lead or manage projects from a technical quality perspective and work with a team of experts, including the project technical director, project manager and data analyst, to ensure successful project deliverable. Specific project tasks will include, but are not limited to:

• Proposal and Report Writing: Assist a variety of public health project proposals and reports including, but not limited to, community level exposure and risk assessments, systematic literature reviews, environmental justice analyses, health impact assessments, litigation matters, and public health policy and strategy.

• Field Studies: Designing and overseeing field sampling studies to characterize community exposures and health risks.

• Exposure and Risk Assessments: Conduct comprehensive human health risk evaluations that may be used to inform client risk management actions, regulatory public health policy, or litigation matters.

• Scientific Literature Research and Data Analysis: Perform systematic literature reviews of epidemiological and environmental data. Analyze large and disparate scientific datasets to develop evidence-based public health conclusions and recommendations for further decision making.

• Risk Communication: Effectively communicate exposure and risk findings, ability to communicate scientific results to multiple non-scientific stakeholders. Make regulatory strategies, and public health impacts to clients, regulatory bodies, and the public. Ensure transparency and clarity in communication.

• Mentoring and Training: Provide mentoring and training for junior APH staff and across CTEH departments to integrate APH activities company wide.

• Building and maintaining scientific credibility of APH practice area: Present at conferences or other scientific venues; publish in peer-reviewed journals. Commitment to staying updated with the latest research, methodologies, and regulatory changes in the field of environmental health.

Vaccination against Covid-19 is strongly preferred. All employees will be subject to policies and procedures of the Company that may be dependent on vaccination status.

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary Range: (commensurate with experience)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

Knowledge:

• Toxicology and Epidemiology: Understanding the effects of substances on humans and the relationship between chemical exposures and human health risk and health-related states in specific populations.

• Exposure Science: Knowledge of environmental contaminants, pathways of human exposure, and the principles of environmental sustainability. Experience in designing and conducting field-based exposure studies to inform community-level exposures and health risks, with an emphasis on utilizing a range of air monitoring and sampling technologies to characterize community exposures.

• Public Health Regulations and Policy: Familiarity with framework for application of scientific evidence in public health policy and promulgation of public health regulations. This includes experience in reviewing and interpreting public health-related bills and regulations. Specific education and experience with the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the related state regulations are especially relevant.

• Risk Assessment Methodologies: Proficient in the steps of human health risk assessment, including hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Proficient with EPA and state agency guidance documents for exposure and human health risk assessment.

• Statistics and Data Analysis: Ability to analyze and interpret large environmental datasets to support exposure and risk assessments.

• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest research, regulations, and methodologies in the fields of exposure science, toxicology, environmental health, and risk assessment.

Skills:

Analytical Skills: Ability to critically analyze data, interpret exposure, toxicology, and epidemiology scientific studies, and synthesize