Biothreat Reduction Technical Specialist - Junior

Responsibilities
Government Client Mission Program Summary:
The Department of Defense's (DoD) works cooperatively with allies and partners to reduce or eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats. The cooperative nature of the DoD's activities yields a secondary benefit of strengthening regional alliances, deepening existing partnerships, and attracting new partners.
Role Description:
At Noblis and Noblis ESI, we have excellent teams of smart, collaborative, proactive experts, and professionals. We are actively seeking to identify personnel to join our team of talented professionals who possess the experience, vision, commitment, and integrity to successfully support the strategic goals of the Department of Defense's program.
Noblis is looking to hire Biothreat Reduction Technical Specialists to support the mission in cooperation with partner nations. Responsibilities for the position may include, but are not limited to:
- Assess, evaluate, and recommend solutions to resolve the multitude of technical issues that may evolve in conjunction.
- Provide expertise to support multidisciplinary and multinational research project development and implementation (i.e., disease surveillance, pathogen biology, etc.), experimental design, research management and oversight to include animal and human use protocols; biosafety & biosecurity compliance, laboratory operations; and standard operating procedures.
- Provide expertise in public health fundamentals, including infectious disease surveillance, laboratory detection, and epidemiologic investigation, and understand polices and strategies to improve prevention, detection, and control of infectious diseases, with specific focus on approaches to prevent emergence and spread of diseases.
- Provide expertise in laboratory design, layout, and operations to ensure optimal workflow and functionality.
- Provide subject matter expertise in epidemiology, biosafety, and bio- surveillance, and disease reporting systems, including assistance in requirements review, development oversight, security, test and evaluation, integration efforts, and implementation of the systems and software.
- Provide expertise in veterinary and clinical medicine, laboratory diagnostics, epidemiology, and biosafety to assist in the review of training materials developed by the government partners and contractors across all program countries.
Client Engagement
· Learn about the Noblis business development lifecycle, processes, tools, and account structure
· Contribute specialized domain or technical content to proposal sections or client white papers
· Build a productive relationship with your client and understand their structure and goals
Qualifications
Required skills and knowledge:
- Education/Experience:
- 0-3 years (BA/BS degree), 4 years (Associates degree), or 6 years (No degree) of relevant experience in Biosafety, Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology, Veterinary/Zoology, or Laboratory Diagnostics.If the candidate is qualifying based on having a degree, the candidate must possess a degree in biology, informatics (with emphasis on bioinformatics), applied mathematics (with emphasis on disease surveillance modeling), microbiology, epidemiology, veterinary, public health, clinical medicine, or a related field.
- DoD SECRET clearance or higher, or ability to obtain a U.S. clearance.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience working with the U.S. government on areas concerning national security.
- Familiarity with State-level and regional WMD threats.
- Familiarity with nonproliferation obligations, approaches, and objectives.
- International engagement experience.
- Excellent communication, written, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work on multiple projects which includes prioritizing, tracking, attention to detail, follow-up and follow-through to project completion.
- Flexibility/adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Candidates with a Secret, Top Secret, or Top Secret/SCI clearance are preferred.
Overview
Noblis (http://www.noblis.org/) and our wholly owned subsidiary,Noblis ESI (http://www.noblis-esi.com/) , tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Noblis -About Us (https://careers.noblis.org/about-noblis/)
Why work at a Noblis company?
Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerousworkplace awards (http://www.noblis.org/about/Awards/) . Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.
Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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Posted Date 1 month ago (4/22/2021 7:43 PM)
Requisition # 10288
Security Clearance None
FT/PT/On-Call Full Time
Portal Location : Location US-VA-Lorton