Job Summary

About the Position: Assist the Chief of Safety and Occupational Health in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the District's overall safety program. Relocation and Recruitment incentives may be offered to highly qualified candidates. This is an open continuous announcement. First Cutoff Date: December 4th, 2024 Additional Cutoff Dates: As requested by management. Final Closing Date: December 31st, 2024 or when positions have been filled. Your resume will be considered.

Job Description

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. GS-11 Minimum Qualifications: GS-11 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, GS-09 in the Federal service which includes: working with and advising on Safety Management Systems; reviewing safety program proposals to ensure conformance with safety standards, procedures, and codes; and conducting on-site safety surveys of resident and/or field offices to determine that prescribed safety procedures and standards are being applied. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major study in safety or occupational health fields (safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene), or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely related) disciplines: safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, toxicology, public health, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological sciences, engineering, and industrial psychology. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.