Associate Specialist, Environmental Health

Salary

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

For candidates living in Boston, MA, Denver, CO, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Sacramento, CA, San Diego, CA, and Washington, DC, the pay range is $57,700 - $67,100.

This position requires that the employee reside within the DC, Maryland or Northern Virginia area.

The Associate Specialist, Environmental Health, provides programmatic support for APHL’s US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded work tostrengthenpublic healthlaboratoryefforts around chemical threat preparedness, overdose biosurveillance, human biomonitoring, wastewater surveillance for chemicals, and microplastics.

The Associate Specialist, Environmental Health, provides administrative assistance for APHL environmental health program staff, the APHL Environmental Health Committee and related work groups.

The Associate Specialist, Environmental Health, will work with the Environmental Health Senior Program Manage rand other team members to implement project activities, facilitatemember training, and provide administrative assistance to the Director of Environmental Health.

At this time, this position is funded through June 2027 and is dependent upon continued availability of funds.

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to strengthen laboratory systems serving the public’s health in the U.S. and globally. APHL’s member laboratories protect the public’s health by monitoring and detecting infectious and foodborne diseases, environmental contaminants, terrorist agents, genetic disorders in newborns and other diverse health threats.

• Provides administrative support, coordination and project management to the Senior Program Manager of Environmental Health to implement environmental health program activities, particularly activities of the National Biomonitoring Network, chemical threat preparedness, overdose biosurveillance, microplastics, and wastewater surveillance of chemicals.
• Provides administrative support to environmental health program staff to implement APHL work plans for strengthening laboratory programs related to environmental health.
• Organizes and coordinates member activities, travel and trainings related to environmental health program
• Tasks to successfully complete these duties and responsibilities include:
  • Organizes and coordinatescommittee activities, workgroup meetings, trainings, webinars, and associated staff and member travel.
  • Takes detailed meeting notes, writes summary reports and articles for newsletters and other publications, and conducts research and analysis to develop survey, report, and other project drafts.
  • Maintains communication with APHL committees, CDC and other partners by email, telephone,and in-person meetings andrepresentsAPHL interests at meetings,scientific conferences andtrainings.
  • Procures supplies and contributes to the preparation and distribution of collateral materials for meetings.
  • Assists in the creation and dissemination of invitation letters, certificates, agendas, and awards for meetings and events.
  • Enlists APHL member and staff experts and non-member experts to support implementation of activities, organizes project teams, manages communities of practices,monitorsoverall project performance and reports on projectoutcomes.
  • Monitors consultant and vendor contracts and reviews and evaluates technical and non-technical reports prepared by consultants and contractors.
  • Tracks financial activities andwritescorresponding reports for assigned projects.
  • Communicates program activities and cooperative…