HUD Job: Environmental Scientist in the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control

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As an Environmental Scientist?you will be responsible for:

Developing strategies and plans for technical studies, research, and policy to

further goals on lead and other residential health and safety hazards;

Developing a comprehensive healthy housing research agenda that considers

health, safety, environmental, and energy conservation factors;

Serving as an in-house technical expert in building sciences and environmental

health issues related to housing, including knowledge about energy efficiency

and indoor air quality programs and guidelines;

Planning, designing and overseeing policy-relevant technical studies,

demonstration projects, policy analyses, and program evaluation projects

pertaining to the evaluation and reduction of lead, mold, allergens, and other

housing-related hazards;

Reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing?technical information research results,

and policy on housing-related hazards, healthy homes and green building issues;

Preparing statements of work for contracts and funding announcements for grants

and reviewing proposals/applications;

Organizing and presenting technical and policy information at national level

professional meetings;

Preparing papers, reports, memoranda, briefing materials, and other written

materials pertaining to the work of the Division and the Office for transmittal

to the Congress, principal and other HUD staff, other Federal officials,

professional groups, and the general public;

Representing the Division and the Office at meetings with HUD program offices,

other Federal agencies, and agencies and organizations outside the Federal

Government to discuss studies, policies, regulations, standards, guidelines, and

program monitoring systems pertaining to the evaluation and reduction of

housing-related lead, mold, allergen and other residential hazards;

Tracking environmental and health outcomes following environmental interventions

in federally assisted housing and overseeing research to determine/quantify the

cost-effectiveness of healthy homes interventions;

Identifying best practices for achieving and sustaining healthy housing;

Developing transitional strategies from categorical remediation strategies

focused on lead-based paint?hazards to comprehensive approaches that consider

and address multiple housing-related health hazards