Overview: The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full time Human Health Assessment Support position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Washington, DC. 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 Chemical and Pollutant Assessment Division (CPAD) develops scientific assessments on human health or environmental effects of chemicals or stressors to inform EPA Region and Program Offices, producing a portfolio of assessment products that serve different programmatic needs.What the EPA project is aboutCPADs Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) plays an important role in EPAs mission to protect human health through the development of human health assessments that evaluate health effects that may result from exposure to specific chemicals in the environment. IRIS assessments are not regulations but they provide a critical part of the scientific foundation for decision- making across EPA to protect public health under an array of environmental laws (such as the Clean Air Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act). IRIS assessments provide high quality, publicly available information on the toxicity of chemicals to which the public might be exposed (in drinking water, in air, in soil). IRIS is the top tier source of toxicity information and the primary source of information used by EPA, state and local health agencies, other federal agencies, and international health organizations in environmental health decision-making decisions that protect against cancer and other diseases. In providing the scientific and technical basis for many activities within EPA, the IRIS Program is essential for protecting public health. Responsibilities: What experience and skills will you gain?As a team member, you will assist in the administration, management, and communication of ERPDs STPC program.How you will apply your skillsAdministrative responsibilities:Assisting division scientists in special projects such as organizing scientific workshops and public;Assisting the IRIS Program in coordinating all aspects of the IRIS process, including scheduling meetings, submitting, collecting, and distributing documents, maintaining a database repository for all documentation, summarizing scientific issues raised by meeting participants, and documenting responses to issues raised at various steps in the review process (including by agency reviewers, interagency reviewers, external peer reviewers, and the public);Maintaining records of meetings, correspondence, and action documents, and maintaining a system to track projects in;Assisting the Deputy Director with tracking the development of IRIS assessments for the purpose of maintaining schedules and meeting Student Contractors may be asked to develop tracking tools; andAssisting the IRIS Associate Director for Science in activities related to the IRIS Interagency Review process and the peer review of IRIS assessments by the Science Advisory Board (SAB) Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAC) standing review This includes development of meeting agendas, scheduling meetings, submitting, collecting, and distributing documents.Communications-related responsibilities:Assisting in the logistics and coordination activities for briefings, public meetings, workshops, and other collaborative; andWorking with the IRIS Associate Director for Science and other IRIS Program management in developing and reviewing programmatic and scientific web language related to the IRIS Program activities that will be posted on the IRIS.Technical responsibilities:Supporting the IRIS Program by following established Quality Assurance procedures and protocols to ensure that all health effects data generated or used by CPAD is scientifically sound and of known and acceptable quality for their intended;Assisting the IRIS Associate Director for Science in activities related to the IRIS Interagency Review process including summarizing scientific issues raised by interagency reviewers, categorizing issues and comments in an Access database, and maintaining an email database of scientific issues, responses and meeting;Reviewing scientific literature on the health effects of chemicals present in the environment and prepare data summaries in support of IRIS human health This may include identifying characteristics of individual toxicology or epidemiology studies that can influence determination of study quality, assisting with documentation of literature searches and search strategies, conducting library research, performing data entry, developing summary tables that present key information on study design and results from individual epidemiology and toxicology studies, developing tables of comments on draft IRIS assessments and summaries of comments, organizing and formatting scientific information consistent with standard IRIS templates, and generating various graphical presentations for health effects data (including figures generated from Excel spreadsheets or GraphPad); andAssisting the IRIS Associate Director for Science in activities related to the peer review of IRIS assessments by the Science Advisory Board (SAB) Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAC) standing review This includes participation in the preparation of scientific charge statements that address key issues in IRIS health assessments, assistance in preparation of issue statements for meetings with SAB support staff, and summarizing the resolution of scientific issues discussed in such meetings.Required Knowledge, Skills, Work Experience, and EducationExperience in the broad scope of human health risk assessment;Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (ie, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), and the Internet;Experience in administrative support functions (ie, recordkeeping, filing) and managing records (electronic and hardcopy) or databases;Strong communication skills (ie, written, oral, telephone etiquette, presentation abilities), including effective multi-media technical communications; andExcellent proof reading and editing skills.Location: This job will be located EPAs facility in Washington, DC.Salary: Selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU and will receive an hourly wage of $23.26 for hours worked.Hours: Full-time.Travel: No travel will be required.Expected start date: The position is full time and expected to begin April 2021. The selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU working as a contractor to EPA. The initial project is through May 14, 2021, with up to 4 additional option periods.For more information, contactEPAjobs@orau.org. Do not contact EPA directly. Qualifications: Be at least 18 years of age andHave earned at least a Bachelors degree in biology, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, toxicology, or other closely related disciplines pertinent to the broad scope of human health risk assessment or a closely related field of study from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months andBe a citizen of the United States of America or a Legal Permanent Resident.EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are not eligible to participate in this program.