Sanitarian Extern

OPEN UNTIL FILLED (OUF) – Final Certificates will be issued after March 28, 2025. Certificates will be issued every 15 days until the positions are filled. This vacancy is advertised under 2 different announcements. Please read the “Who May Apply” section carefully to determine your eligibility. If you are not eligible under this announcement, please see announcement IHS-25-HQ-12591505-DE. To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. 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; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. BASIC REQUIREMENT(S): Sanitarian Series 0688 GS-05: Education: Actively pursuing a full-4 year course of study that meets all the requirements for a bachelor’s degree. Prior to the start of the externship, applicant must have completed at least 30 semester hours in a science or any combination of sciences directly related to environmental health (such as sanitary science, public health, chemistry, microbiology, or any appropriate agricultural, biological, or physical science). OR Experience: Four years of experience in inspectional, investigational, technical support, or other responsible work that provided a knowledge and a fundamental understanding of, and the ability to use, environmental health principles, methods, and techniques equivalent to that which would have been gained through a 4-year college curriculum. OR A combination of education and experience as described above. Additional Requirements for GS-07: GS-07: Experience: Demonstrating the basic professional knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, regulations, and techniques used in developing, administering, monitoring, planning and evaluating environmental health services programs in order to perform routine and conventional environmental health assignments to provide routine environmental health activities to a large number of programs and operations in areas such as food safety, safe drinking water, children’s environmental health, vector control, hazardous materials, solid waste, and other environmental health elements. OR Education: One (1) full year of graduate level education related to environmental health (such as sanitary science, public health, chemistry, microbiology, or agricultural, biological, or physical sciences appropriate to the position) or superior academic achievement. Superior Academic Achievement is based on class standing, grade-point average, or honor society membership. Completion of a bachelors degree in a field related to environmental health with Superior Academic Achievement. Superior academic achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled (such as sanitary science, public health, chemistry, microbiology, or any appropriate agricultural, biological, or physical sciences appropriate to the position). OR A combination of education and experience that meets the requirements for the GS-7 as described above. Time In Grade Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP). You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.
These positions are located within the various Areas within the Indian Health Service, Office of Environmental Health and Engineering (OEHE), Division of Environmental Health Services (DEHS). The Trainees in these positions provide environmental health services by assisting in facility planning, surveys, safety management, injury prevention activities, and other duties as assigned. The incumbents in these positions report to the Environmental Health Specialist.