Location: Cincinnati,OH, USA
Overview:
The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full time Statistical Programming Specialist position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Cincinnati, OH.
The Office of Research and Development at the EPA supports high-quality research to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its environmental goals. Research is conducted in a broad range of environmental areas by scientists in EPA laboratories and at universities across the country.
What the EPA project is about
The Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) supports ORD by providing solutions-driven research to rapidly evaluate the potential human health and environmental risks due to exposures to environmental stressors and ensure the integrity of the freshwater environment and its capacity to support human well-being. CCTE researchers are developing and applying cutting edge innovations in methods to rapidly evaluate chemical toxicity, transport, and exposure to people and environments. Within CCTE, the Scientific Computing & Data Curation Division (SCDCD) develops the knowledge and information architecture necessary for integrating, transforming, and managing large scale data streams related to assessing the risk of chemicals. SCDCD creates and manages online tools and ensures they are compatible with existing chemistry, toxicology, and other experimental data sources.
Responsibilities:As a team member, you will support research under multiple national research programs for statistical software tool development and support. The team member will assist with package maintenance, scientific data management, statistical methods, data analysis, and visualization needs for CCTE. This includes supporting several of CCTEs R statistical programming packages which are tools developed to support data formatting, statistical analyses, visualization, data quality evaluation, and other similar support needs across multiple research domains in the center. The team member may also support database integration efforts and the application of statistical/mathematical modeling, machine learning, and other data science techniques.
The duties of the team member will include, but are not limited to:
Communications-related responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Required Knowledge, Skills, Work Experience, and Education
Desired Knowledge, Skills, Work Experience, and Education
Location:This job will be located EPAs facility in Cincinnati, OH.
Salary: Selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU and will receive an hourly wage of $32.26 for hours worked.
Hours: Full-time.
Travel: Travel related to the position is not anticipated. Travel for training and presentations at national meetings may be possible.
Expected start date: The position is full time and expected to begin October 2024. The selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU working as a contractor to EPA.
For more information, contact ...@orau.org. Do not contact EPA directly.
Qualifications:EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are not eligible to participate in this program.