Total 28 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Port Angeles, Washington

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Serves as an expert on suicide prevention and public health
• Develops and organizes community partners and coalitions to implement suicide prevention programs aimed at reducing Veteran suicide
• Develops, facilitates, and strengthens Community-Based Interventions for Suicide Prevention
• Conduct community-based interventions regarding suicide prevention
• Provides outreach and education on suicide prevention related topics and services
• Provides leadership for coalition management through attending coalition meetings, managing and attending coalition sponsored events/public meetings, conducting and/or supporting coalition evaluation activities
• Established and maintains strong relationships between the VA suicide prevention team and community-based veteran organizations and leadership
• Develops and delivers education and outreach services
• Provides a variety of suicide prevention trainings
• Develops materials and training programs
• Develops and implements a comprehensive suicide prevention communications plan to support community coalition development for local suicide prevention efforts
• Develops and coordinates graphics requirements, including databases, tables, and spreadsheets to complement communications materials
• Develops and provides suicide prevention related media/marketing, including interviews (print or broadcast), social media postings, and communication campaigns
• Ensures funds are properly allocated, expended

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***

Major Duties:

• Creates and maintains unique databases to support research on Veterans health issues and promoting their use in collaboration with other interested researchers.
• Develops policies, procedures, and criteria for the administration of the VA's epidemiological research and surveillance program.
• Serves as senior advisor on research program development.
• Develops statements of goals, policies, priorities, and plans for the full range of research concerns for the program.
• Reviews project reports to assess investigators' compliance with research program guidelines.
• Consults with research elements within the organization, agency, academic community and/or private industry to develop research project opportunities that support VA mission objectives.
• Develops standards for collection and analysis of data and other information as needed to support the Epidemiology Program.
• Establishes and evaluates standards for screening and approval processes for the Epidemiology Program's research and surveillance program.
• Develops and coordinates implementation of research methods and design, standards, criteria, and guidelines for the scientific and technical activities of the program.
• Develops standards, provides scientific leadership, and evaluates research proposals and quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensures research and surveillance proposals meet standards for scientific review and protection of human subjects.
• Provides leadership to Epidemiology Program investigators as they develop project presentation, budget recommendations and resources allocations for proposed projects.
• Prepares in-depth background and management information for review by the research committee and senior leadership.
• Develops standards for Epidemiology Program practices to maintain records and implement other related VA policies as needed.
• Performs other related duties and a variety of administrative duties to maintain the integrity and security of specialized data and implementation of study designs.

At the GS-4 grade level, you will:

• Perform routine and limited assignments pertaining to the scientific missions of the organization.
• Assist in the performance of duties such as the collection of literature references and the organization of files.
• Assist senior staff, project officers, analytical staff, and other staff as necessary.
• Support higher-graded staff in planning for program management of environmental programs.

At the GS-5 grade level, you will:

• Perform routine and limited assignments pertaining to the scientific missions of the organization.
• Select appropriate methods and procedures for assignments based upon previous assignments or instructions.
• Assist senior staff, project officers, analytical staff, and other staff as necessary.
• Support higher-graded staff in planning for program management of environmental programs.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

You will:

At the GS-4 level, you will:

• Perform routine laboratory testing or conducts routine aspects of field sampling or laboratory experiments;
• Receives training in the maintenance of laboratory/scientific equipment and assists in the maintenance of instruments for proper function.
• Assists in the performance of other standardized support duties such as the collection of literature references and the organization of files.
• Performs other simple laboratory duties as required.

At the GS-5 level, you will:

• Assist with data collection (such as water, plants, sediments, animals, etc.) from field (e.g. marshes, streams, or estuary) or set up and harvest cultures for experiments.
• Assist with laboratory sample processing and data collection, including but not limited to, measuring, filtering, grinding, and weighing samples.
• Perform data entry and quality assurance checks of data.
• Assist with preparation of samples for analyses.
• Review literature for assessment and information gathering.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

You will:

• Analyze and summarize a variety of environmental program information and data for use in preparing reports and program evaluations;
• Perform scientific studies of a standard nature on regulatory and compliance issues and problems;
• Provide support for the management and planning of environmental programs and prepare recommendations for solutions to be reviewed by higher graded staff;
• Assist staff in preparation of materials for, and participation in, briefings with managers and review literature for assessment and information gathering.

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position.

This position is within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) with two vacancies located in Seattle, WV.

As a Research Fish Biologist/Research Mathematical Statistician, you will perform the following duties:

- Develop and support efforts to provide scientific information that supports the sustainable management of west coast groundfish stocks and fisheries.
- Execute Research projects and analyses for living marine resources with emphasis on groundfish.
- Collect, classify and analyze data for broad and difficult biological and statistical issues.
- Modeling and simulation of fish population dynamics.

Pursuant to 50 USC 3024 (v), and with concurrence and consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, this position is being established in the excepted service as an element of the Intelligence Community within the Department of the Treasury.

As a Supervisory Intelligence Research Specialist, you will:

• Direct the group's production of strategic and or long-term intelligence products that identify and analyze information on foreign terrorist groups, WMD proliferators, criminal and rogue regime networks, and other entities and topics of US national security interest to assess implications for U.S. interests and opportunities for U.S. policy.
• Balance competing priorities and maintain adequate production pace regarding the production of assigned projects.
• Drive intelligence collection on the group's areas of responsibility.
• Work closely with other OIA and Intelligence Community components to ensure the needs of Treasury policymakers are met and provide regular feedback on intelligence reporting.
• Be responsible for all personnel matters relating to the Group. These include but are not limited to directly supervising branch chiefs, the annual evaluation process for analysts in each branch, mentoring, training, and developing performance standards and evaluations for employees.
• Represent the Department of the Treasury and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis in senior-level internal and interagency meetings, including IC working groups on issues related to the specific areas of responsibility of the office.
• Develop partnerships with other relevant Treasury and intelligence community elements and collaborates with such partners as appropriate.

• You will provide cost estimating and analysis products and services to SSP senior leadership and branches.
• You will produce thorough, accurate estimates and analyses of cost to support milestone reviews.
• You will represent Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) on Navy-level cost process councils and stakeholder groups, as appropriate.
• You will maintain liaison with technical Branch managers and engineers, Integrated Product Team leads, and senior contractor representatives to ensure that proposals and contracts reflect accurate cost requirements.
• You will develop, review, and coordinate assigned cost estimating and analysis products and services supporting SSP Acquisition Program(s) and initiatives and other reporting requirements.
• You will develop databases and cost models comprising of both commercial off the shelf hardware and software tailored as appropriate.
• You will work with branch managers and engineers to evaluate industry partner proposals for cost realism and/or other cost related areas
• You will participate in a broad range of cost and affordability efforts, economic analyses and major study efforts directed by higher authority (e.g. ASN RDA) to identify and assess program cost and schedule growth.

Designs and manages the most effective means of tracking and summarization of diverse and complex statistical data structures or major components of a large scale data series.

Independently plans and conducts descriptive and complex multi- variate data analysis on specific subjects relating to crime and the administration of justice.

Authors original and creative reports which require minimal edits and little or no substantive changes, and which represent a finished product reflecting a high order of professional competence.

Provides specific technical recommendations to higher-level Bureau staff on efficiencies and economics associated with the available storage and computing environments for particular data collection programs.

Identifies and recommends new opportunities for statistical research and development particularly as they relate to improving the substantive knowledge about the criminal justice systems and the administration of justice.

• Responsible for operation of juvenile fish transportation facilities and/or barges.
• Collect and maintain data associated with the juvenile fish transportation program.
• Provide detailed reports to Supervisor on facility or barge operations on a regular basis.
• Responsible for collecting fish, loading raceways and barge holds, and for determining fish numbers, loading densities, and overall fish behavior and condition.
• Make recommendations concerning facility and/or barge operations and equipment to improve overall operation.
• Responsible for ensuring fish facilities and/or barges are operated within fish passage criteria.
• Coordinate with and/or assist researchers working on fish facilities or barges.

• You will serve as the technical lead in identifying and developing new research directions in remote sensing of importance to the Navy, DoD and other government and international partners.
• You will develop cross-organizational teams to address the research problems, and identify and secure funding from sponsors for this research.
• You will conduct and lead innovative research advancing remote sensing strategies and techniques to leverage existing government and commercial systems critical to future naval power.
• You will extend current capabilities through development of advanced signal processing techniques for emerging and future remote sensing system strategies and capabilities.

• Direct and coordinate the planning, design, development, and implementation of major health care research projects related to Medicaid and CHIP.
• Plan, propose, and conducts studies and statistical analysis of data related to the Medicaid program and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
• Prepare analytic products, documents and assists with the development of Business Intelligence (BI) tools.
• Lead education and outreach efforts on data collection and application of data to program oversight and operations to CMS, states, and other federal government entities.

At the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), we are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) and value a workforce that reflects the diverse experiences and perspectives of the communities we serve. As such, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds who share our commitment to public service.

The mission of the Division of Examinations is to protect investors, ensure market integrity and support responsible capital formation through risk-focused strategies that: (1) improve compliance; (2) prevent fraud; (3) monitor risk; and (4) inform policy. The results of the Division's examinations are used by the SEC to inform rule-making initiatives, identify and monitor risks, improve industry practices and pursue misconduct.

If selected, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for supporting EXAMS' mission to conduct and coordinate the nationwide examination program for entities over which the Commission has regulatory authority.

As a Lead Research Specialist, you will:

• Perform registration filing reviews, research and analyses of complex filings, and advise other staff in conducting filing reviews and research assignments consistent with defined policies and procedures.
• Utilize strong interpersonal and oral communication skills, and act as a liaison and contact for key stakeholders within the Division of Examinations about applicant registration filings and documents under review within the work area.
• Utilize expert knowledge of EDGAR, Web CRD, IARD and other systems and research skills to identify trends and patterns related to certain registration applications based on filings and document reviews with a goal to inform the examination areas of the exam program.
• Execute strong written communication skills and utilize subject matter expert knowledge of investment adviser, broker dealer, transfer agent, and municipal advisor registration forms to draft and update procedural and other documents in the work area.
• Collaborate with management on topics affecting the work area and provides input on registration topics, workflow methods, and procedures to improve internal registration process efficiencies and effectiveness.

As a Research Ecologist, you will perform the following duties:-

- Perform the full spectrum of research activities, including development of short and long-term plans, analysis of proposed research, preparation of cost and resources, oversight and control of efforts to support research projects, procurement, development and testing of research studies, implementation planning, and publication in peer-reviewed scientific literature and/or briefing of research results.

- Utilize comprehensive knowledge of conservation biology, marine ecology, natural resources, and environmental sciences to synthesize complex scientific information into a variety of scientific publications and public outreach materials (e.g., Condition Reports, educational materials, input for websites).

- Build partnerships with external organizations to further a sanctuary site's science needs and priorities, including obtaining research funding and grants and organizing technical meetings. Coordinate with other sanctuaries to expand research efforts, and efficiently utilize and share resources within Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS).

- Provide expert advice and recommendations to novel, complex, and controversial issues. Represent ONMS at national and international meetings, conferences, resource management boards, research advisory panels, etc.

As a Research Ecologist, you will perform the following duties:

- Perform the full spectrum of research activities, including development of short and long-term plans, analysis of proposed research, preparation of cost and resources, oversight and control of efforts to support research projects, procurement, development and testing of research studies, implementation planning, and publication in peer-reviewed scientific literature and/or briefing of research results.

- Utilize comprehensive knowledge of conservation biology, marine ecology, natural resources, and environmental sciences to synthesize complex scientific information into a variety of scientific publications and public outreach materials (e.g., Condition Reports, educational materials, input for websites).

- Build partnerships with external organizations to further a sanctuary site's science needs and priorities, including obtaining research funding and grants and organizing technical meetings. Coordinate with other sanctuaries to expand research efforts, and efficiently utilize and share resources within Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS).

- Provide expert advice and recommendations to novel, complex, and controversial issues. Represent ONMS at national and international meetings, conferences, resource management boards, research advisory panels, etc.