Director, Children's Environmental Health Center

Job Description And Duties

Are you a pediatrician licensed to practice medicine in California? If so, this job may be for you!

The Air Toxicology and Risk Assessment Section (ATRAS) in the Air and Site Assessment and Climate Indicators Branch provides health effects assessments of air pollutants. The ATRAS develops health effects assessment for Toxic Air Contaminants, chemicals listed under the Air Toxics Hot Spots Act, and inhaled chemicals of interest or concern to other California public health protective programs; and provides risk assessment guidelines and review risk assessments under the Hot Spots programs. The ATRAS generates risk assessment guidelines and specific assessments of risks to public health from toxic chemicals in air, for use by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and local Air Pollution Control/Air Quality Management Districts (Air Districts) in their regulatory actions under the Toxic Air Contaminants (Health and Safety Code Section 39660 et seq.) and Air Toxics Hot Spots (Health and Safety Code Section 44300 et seq.) programs. The ATRAS also reviews Air Toxics Hot Spots facility health risk assessments (HRAs) for the Air Districts and reviews alternative fuel human health impacts for the California Environmental Policy Council as part of the Multimedia Fuels Group.

Under administrative direction of the Senior Toxicologist, chief of the Air Toxicology and Risk Assessment Section, the Public Health Medical Officer III (PHMO III) is a technical consultant to ASACIB on the Toxic Air Contaminants and Air Toxics Hot Spots Programs, underscoring the Office’s mandates under the Children’s Health Protection Act, as well as a consultant to other scientific branches in OEHHA on children’s environmental health issues. The PHMO III works as a member of a multidisciplinary team of scientists evaluating public health risks from exposures to airborne toxic substances in the community, with the special role of providing pediatric medical expertise and perspective. The PHMO III serves as Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center, which was established within CalEPA by SB 25 (Escutia, Chapter 731, Statutes of 1999) and codified in Health and Safety Code Sections 900 and 901, and as a resource to CalEPA on children's health and exposure to environmental chemicals. The PHMO III is expected to work independently with a minimum of administrative direction, provide decisions on tasks assigned, interact with other Branches’ programs involving children’s environmental health, interact with the CARB, the peer review panel for Toxic Air Contaminants (TAC), and the Department of Public Health all on areas of effects of air pollutants and environmental contaminants on infants and children.

LIST ELIGIBILITY – EXAMINATION PROCESS

List eligibility is established through an examination process in which one must a pply and successfully pass the examination for the classification. If you have not established list eligibility for the Public Health Medical Officer III , please click on the link to the examination bulletin for more information - https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Exams/ExamBulletin.aspx?ExamControlId=2677.

Benefits

In addition to a compelling vision for California, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment offers competitive pay, benefits, and features for its workforce. To review the pay and benefits offered to California civil service staff, please review CalHR’s website at http://calhr.ca.gov/employees/Pages/salary-and-benefits.aspx.

POSITION LOCATION

This position may be located either at 1515 Clay Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, or at 1001 I Street, 12th Floor, Sacramento, California.