(INTERDISCIPLINARY) Research Microbiologist/Research Veterinary Medical Officer
About the role
This position works with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Bio & Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), Foreign Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit (FABADRU) in Manhattan, Kansas.
Responsibilities
- Identify, propose, and perform independent and collaborative research to achieve the research objectives.
- Provide unique leadership and research skills to contribute to the identification, description, and characterization of the effects of foreign animal diseases in livestock.
- Develop molecular, clinical, and virology techniques to understand virus-host interactions.
- Develop methods or therapies as countermeasures to infection and disease.
- Organize a research program by establishing research priorities, providing leadership in planning research projects.
- Supervise the execution of research, review research in progress, evaluate completed research, lead discussions on the interpretation of results, and report and publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals the progress of research.
Requirements
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
Successfully complete a three year probationary period.
Pre-employment and random testing of substances of abuse.
Qualifications
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
Skills
The ability to obtain/maintain a Security clearance.
The ability to obtain/maintain Select Agent clearance.
Benefits
Not specified.
Pay
Not specified.
Schedule
Not specified.