HERO Data Specialist
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The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full-time contractor position; HERO Data Specialist with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Research Triangle Park, NC.
Salary: $22.46 per hour.
Travel: No travel will be required.
Required Skills:
- A working knowledge of relational databases;
- Strong written, oral and electronic communication skills; and
- The ability to work well as a part of a team.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with ColdFusion, Endnote, SQL, Python, Java or Mongo.
Qualifications
- Be at least 18 years of age and
- Have earned at least a Bachelor’s degree in a field relevant to environmental risk assessment, including but not limited to ecology, toxicology, environmental science, and epidemiology, or in computer or information science from an accredited university or college within the last 24 months and
- Be a citizen of the United States of America or a Legal Permanent Resident and
- Provide proof of a COVID vaccination per the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Guidance for Federal Contractors.
EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are not eligible to participate in this program.
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.
The Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) database provides an easy way to access and influence the scientific literature behind EPA science assessments. The database includes more than 3 million scientific references and data from the peer-reviewed literature used by EPA to develop its regulations for the following: Integrated Science Assessments (ISA) that feed into the NAAQS review, Provisional Peer Reviewed Toxicity Values (PPRTV) that represent human health toxicity values for the Superfund, and the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a database that supports critical agency policymaking for chemical regulation. These assessments supported by HERO characterize the nature and magnitude of health risks to humans and the ecosystem from pollutants and chemicals in the environment.
This is an excellent opportunity for a recent Bachelor’s graduate to collaborate with EPA’s research team. Research experience includes:
- Creating new project pages and hierarchies of organizational tags;
- Digitization and storage of relevant hard copy articles in the HERO database;
- Verification of data to ensure correctness and completeness; and
- Networking and exploring many career paths at EPA.
Interested in this research opportunity? If so, follow the link below to apply. Questions? Email Elyse.Morrow@ORAU.org