Public Health Field Investigator

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Full Time Professional Rio Grande City, TX, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $65,000.00 To $85,000.00 Annually

Council for Logistics Research, Inc. McLean, VA

Employment Type:
Full-Time

Salary Range: $65,000 – $85,000

Must be US Citizen and be able to pass a DHS Full Scope Background Investigation.

Due to our continuous growth in our contract within the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO) at Customs and Border Protection (CBP), we are seeking a Public Health Field Investigator (Rio Grande Valley, TX) to join our team. The optimal candidate must have a bachelor’s degree or higher in public health, nursing, environmental health, health sciences, or a related field.

This mid-level position requires experience in communicable disease control, public health, occupational health, detention or correctional health, emergency preparedness, healthcare quality, epidemiology, or a related field.

• Serves as the field, public health subject matter expert for the assigned area, including Ports of Entry and Border Patrol Stations.
• Serves as a liaison between field operators, contracted medical personnel, local/state health departments and OCMO regarding communicable disease matters.
• Provides communicable disease education, training, and technical assistance to CBP personnel, contractors, and other field stakeholders.
• Provides timely written and verbal updates to OCMO leadership regarding field findings, emerging concerns, recommended actions, and public health coordination efforts.
• Conducts public health field assessments, including site visits, to identify risks related to communicable disease transmission.
• Supports communicable disease surveillance, exercises, after-action reviews, emerging infectious disease responses, and other public health activities as assigned.

• Experience working with multidisciplinary partners such as public health authorities, healthcare personnel, operational leadership, or emergency response stakeholders.
• Ability to develop written reports, recommendations, training materials, and field summaries.
• Ability to work independently in field environments while maintaining routine communication with headquarters leadership.

• Knowledge of infection prevention and control principles in healthcare, congregate, detention, correctional, emergency response, or operational environments.
• Knowledge of communicable disease prevention and control, including tuberculosis, respiratory illness, gastrointestinal illness, blood borne pathogens, vaccine-preventable disease, and emerging infectious diseases.
• Ability to translate public health guidance into recommendations for operational personnel.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to build effective relationships with CBP personnel, contractors, and public health partners.
• Flexibility to respond to changing schedules, field conditions, public health incidents, and operational needs.

CLR and its subcontractors shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on protected veteran status or disability and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity. These regulations also require affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to protected characteristics.