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Field Epidemiologist

City of El Paso
3 days ago
On-site
Various Locations within the City of El Paso, Texas, United States
$65,472.58 - $81,840.72 USD yearly
Epidemiology

Requirements

MOS Codes - None

Education and Experience:   Bachelor’s degree or higher in Epidemiology, Microbiology, Biostatistics, Communicable/Infectious Disease, Public Health, Social Science, Health Science, or related field and two (2) years of experience in epidemiology, communicable/infectious disease investigation and control or biostatistics.    
 
 Licenses and Certificates: Texas Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state.

General Purpose

Under general supervision performs infectious disease preparedness and outbreak response activities.

Typical Duties

Responsible for carrying out a wide-range of design, implementation, and analysis of epidemiologic investigations or studies related to the surveillance, detection, prevention and response of infectious disease.  Involves:  Perform prevention and control of notifiable conditions and communicable diseases, including diseases related to potential Bioterrorism agents.  Perform proper surveillance and reporting of normal disease occurrence and outbreak situations.  Contribute to the identification, analysis, and resolution of chronic/environmental diseases.  Investigate, provide intervention, and enhance the preparedness capabilities for selected epidemic communicable diseases, notifiable conditions and any related conditions/illnesses of public health significance.  Ensure readiness for responding to Bioterrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats and emergencies.  Perform community disease surveillance, including active surveillance. Collect lab specimens and interprets results.  Provides appropriate prevention, control and educational activities.
 
Prepare morbidity case investigations for surveillance reporting.  Involves: Provide analysis of morbidity data. Participate in investigations and provides intervention for epidemic or unusual community health related episodes or outbreaks, including those related to potential Bioterrorism agents and other related public health issues which develop the public health preparedness capacities of the section. Provide information related to preparedness and other public health issues (telephone consultation, mail out and presentation) to individual schools, child care centers, nursing homes, hospitals, health care providers and other agencies to ensure readiness for responding to Bioterrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats/emergencies.  Produce special reports and statistical analysis of epidemiological investigations to ensure readiness for responding to Bioterrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats/emergencies.
 
Maintain and enhance current surveillance system, such as 24/7 disease surveillance coverage on rotating basis with other epidemiology staff. Involves: Establish and maintain relationships with hospital infection control practitioners, school health care coordinators and nurses to promote reporting of Texas notifiable conditions. Initiate active surveillance in day cares, school and long- term care facilities when outbreak occurs.   Assist in the development of disease information literature.  Participate in infectious disease preparedness and outbreak response activities.  Perform other duties as assigned, including special tasks related to responding to an emergency event.

General Information

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Note:  This is an unclassified contract position.

Note:  Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a present number of qualified applications have been received.  

Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history.  We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.  

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.