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Environmental Health Officer - 4134 

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Position Summary:

The Environmental Health Officer (EHO) serves as a public health consultant to Tohono O'odham Nation Health Care to prevent and recommend corrective interventions to minimize illness and injury impacted by environmental health matters and provide recommendations for remediation and corrective actions where needed. The EHO is supervised directly by the Director of Environmental Health Services.

Scope of Work:

All facets of environmental health practice including facility and community-based work. Program components include: General Environmental Health (GEH), Institutional EH (IEH), Environmental Sustainability (ES) and community Injury Prevention (IP). Program emphasizes provision of: 1) routine and follow-up surveys of the built environment (homes and tribal facilities), including evaluation and remediation of environmental exposures, 2) professional advice and technical consultation; 3) assistance in investigations of emergent/emergency issues including food-borne illness, communicable diseases, acute and chronic exposures, and vector control; 4) policy evaluation and development; and 5) staff and community training.

 
Position Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health accredited by the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council.
  • Master’s degree in Environmental Health accredited by the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council or above preferred.
  • Two (2) years of experience serving as an environmental health professional.

Licenses, Certifications, Special Requirements:

  • Possession and maintain a current/valid professional registration as a Registered Sanitarian (RS) or Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) by any State or the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) or a state with reciprocal registration.
  • Desired/beneficial training includes Master of Public Health degree or course work and knowledge of basic epidemiology and statistics, and/or
  • Certification in Industrial Hygiene, Safety Management or Hazardous Materials.
  • Upon recommendation for hire a criminal background and National FBI check is required to determine suitability for hire.
  • Must possess and maintain a valid Arizona driver’s license (no DUIs or major traffic citations within the last three years).
  • Must meet the Tohono O’odham Nation tribal employer’s insurance requirements to receive a driver’s permit to operate program vehicles.
  • Must submit a 39-month driving record with the employment application.
 
Location Sells  
Open Date 8/19/2019  
Close Date 11/5/2019  
About the Organization The Tohono O'odham Nation is a federally-recognized tribe that includes approximately 28,000 members occupying tribal lands in Southwestern Arizona. The Nation is the second largest reservations in Arizona in both population and geographical size, with a land base of 2.8 million acres and 4,460 square miles, approximately the size of the State of Connecticut. Its four non-contiguous segments total more than 2.8 million acres at an elevation of 2,674 feet.  

This position is currently not accepting applications.

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