Salary
$58,718.40 – $75,524.80 Annually
Location
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, WA
Job Type
Regular
Division
Environmental Health
Job Number
21-00008
Closing
2/22/2021 11:59 PM Pacific
The Environmental Health Division is recruiting for a Regular, full-time, (1.0 FTE) Environmental Health Specialist I/II position to support our Social, Environmental, and Economic Conditions of Health program . This position will work with communities to identify and quantify environmental justice concerns utilizing policy, systems, and environmental solutions to counter systemic racism in Pierce County.
Some of what you’ll do:
- Research, assess, educate, and collaborate with stakeholders to support management and promotion of healthy housing, air quality, active transportation and other environmental conditions of health.
- Develop environmental sampling protocols and create educational tools such as social media campaigns, workshops and other health promotion items.
- Work with team to develop communications/outreach materials and culturally grounded, linguistically appropriate public health messaging.
- Work with community to identify and quantify environmental justice concerns through sampling, research, education, and collaboration.
- Serve as liaison to community-based environmental organizations and environmental health researchers in the community.
- Translate and apply community-based research findings, environmental assessment, and monitoring data to support community organizing campaigns.
- Support community-identified needs and partnership development.
- Analyze environmental health conditions and environmental justice concerns.
- Contribute to the development of more effective and accountable policy and systems, including the incorporation of health considerations into housing, climate change, environmental justice, and economic development.
- Work with manager to monitor budgets, grants and contracts. Data entry, tracking, and reporting to support project management.
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What you bring to the table
- Knowledge of environmental health principles and practices.
- Knowledge of and the ability to apply math and science applications to environmental health work.
- Skill in analyzing, compiling, recording, and assessing data.
- Skill in planning and organizing work activities to meet established objectives.
- Skill in communicating effectively within a sometimes stressful environment.
- Ability to interpret and apply federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with tact, diplomacy, and sensitivity
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Computer literacy.
Who should apply
A Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science with a minimum of 45 credit hours or 30 semester hours in the basic natural or physical sciences; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Possession of a Certificate of Registration as a Sanitarian within one year of appointment is highly desirable.
- The Environmental Health Specialist I requires zero to two years experience.
- The Environmental Health Specialist II requires a minimum of two years experience in an EHS I position or equivalent at time of hire and possession of a current Certificate of Registration as a Sanitarian (RS) or a Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) is required within six months of hire.
*Candidates that meet qualifications for EHS II Salary range is $29.63 – $38.15/hourly *
- Ability to successfully pass a background investigation.
- Possession of a valid driver’s license and an acceptable driver’s abstract is required prior to employment.
Desired:
- Ability to collaborate with both community residents and agency partners.
- Innovation, creativity, and an ability to balance planning and visioning for the program with the need to complete project tasks.
- Project Management experience.
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
Work Setting:
- Work is performed almost exclusively indoors in an office environment. Exposure to hazards is limited to those commonly found in government office environments.
- Your office will be set up to provide personal safety, including social distancing, screening, sanitation, disinfection, and masks.
- Work involves some exposure to uncomfortable or unpleasant surroundings, such as indoor environmental assessments that include mold, pests, etc.
- Work involves some exposure to regular climatic changes, which may involve heat, humidity, snow, and rain.
Physical Demands:
- Work involves special physical demands such as lifting and carrying 25 – 50 lbs, transporting necessary tools and equipment.
- Physical agility and stamina to walk or climb from place to place is required due to the rigorous nature of some of the fieldwork, i.e., unlevel ground, wooded and brushy areas; climbing up and down stairs and hills; and crouching and/or crawling into small areas.
Tools and Equipment:
- Duties require the use of standard office furniture and equipment (e.g., desk, filing cabinet, computer, printer, telephone, fax machine, copy machine, etc.)
- Air quality meters, moisture meters, hygrometers, environmental sampling tools.
Travel:
- Some travel is required, and is typically local or regional, to meet with clients, conduct business, or attend or provide training.
Emergencies
When public health responds to an emergency you may be assigned duties that are outside your regular job description. This may involve responding at any time, including nights and weekends, with possible deployment to locations other than the department.