Total 1,966 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies

As a Science Officer you will:

• Advise on scientific studies/surveys or projects at local, state, and national levels.
• Assist staff in the preparation and clearance of scientific products.
• Consult on scientific and technical issues.
• Engage in scientific collaboration.
• Lead and manage teams.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Recruitment/Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized Learn more.
EDRP Authorized: Contact 21CCOEEDRP@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

The PM&R Pain Section Chief is responsible for clinical oversight and delivery of pain and rehabilitative care for outpatient PM&R Pain clinics.

Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides comprehensive pain and rehabilitation care to veterans through clinical evaluation and treatment within the outpatient Pain Program, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) clinics and inpatient care as needed.
• Performs medication management including opioids, spine and other pain procedures, ultrasounds, non-medication management of pain including physical therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic, etc. and conducts Pain and PM&R clinics as needed.
• Supports the Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI) and opioid stewardship efforts in compliance with the Government Accountability Office, Office of Inspector General and Office of National Drug Control Policy.
• Has protected time equivalent to 0.25 FTE as Facility Pain POC (or 0.125 FTE if a shared role).
• Ensures clinical appropriateness of the treatment of patients served, including timely and appropriate transition to other levels of care, notation of contraindications and precautions of care.
• Supervises and educates/trains PM&R residents in clinical activities relevant to PM&R and Pain Management.
• Coordinates Pain and PM&R clinics for meeting patient care needs, implementing Stepped Care Model for Pain Management (SCM-PM) and educates primary care physicians and other providers about referrals to the Pain Program.
• Development and expansion of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation programs and clinics for comprehensive pain care with Primary Care, Mental Health, Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, Nursing, and other disciplines as appropriate.
• Communicates with Pain Management and PM&R physicians, nursing, pharmacists, mental health care providers, primary care providers and other members of the interdisciplinary team and communicates/interacts daily with the team as needed.
• Collaborates with other services to ensure appropriate and timely pain related consultation and coordination of care.
• Assists in the identification of training and education needs for the Pain program staff and provides education and training for all members of the clinical staff as needed.
• Assists in the timely processing of referrals of patients in the Pain program and pain related PM&R clinics following timeliness metrics.
• Participates in telehealth for Pain Program and PM&R clinics as needed.
• Performs Pain and PM&R consultations as directed by the Chief, PM&R.
• Ensures the ongoing provision of care that complies with the "Organization Code of Ethics" for VA.
• Participates in performance improvement activities for the Pain Program and pain related PM&R department activities to include CARF preparation as warranted.
• Actively participates in advocacy activities, program development, recruiting activities, interviewing new candidates for the Pain Program, establishment of program policies/procedures, consult changes to electronic medical record, marketing/promoting, strategic planning and other activities as defined by the Chief, PM&R.

As the Regional Science Coordinator within the Rocky Mountain Region, some of your specific duties will include:

• Represents the Regional Director and provides leadership on topics related to scientific expertise and quality management.
• Serves as liaison between the Regional Office, Rocky Mountain Region Centers, Office of Scientific Quality and Integrity, Mission Areas, and all USGS QMS activities as they relate to quality management and implementation of integrated science within the Rocky Mountain Region.
• Serves as the Rocky Mountain Region expert on all matters pertaining to quality assurance of science, data, and laboratories.
• Operates a government owned/leased vehicle as an incidental driver.

• Perform recurring contract support work involving procurement of supplies and services, limited negotiation, fixed price and/or firm-fixed price contracts; and contract administration, evaluation, monitoring, modification, and termination.
• Review standardized specifications for completeness and adequacy, researching established markets, and conducting market research.
• Monitor assigned contracts to determine documentation required, such as work schedules and progress reports, and coordinate and ensure required documentation is submitted for timeliness, completeness, and accuracy.
• Prepare contract modifications to include noncomplex supplemental agreements and change orders for such items as changing delivery schedule, payment provisions, method of shipment or packing, etc.
• Meet with commercial representatives to discuss procurement needs, quality of items or services, current market prices, or delivery schedules.
• Coordinate contracting activities with other Government agencies having interrelated requirements, obtaining clearances from the Small Business Administration, and posting requirements in the Federal Business Opportunities web site.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Incumbent will become fully certified in all aspects of data collection for the Current Employment Statistics program and maintain an active case load.
• Conducts Quality Assurance at the Data Collection Center (DCC). The incumbent will critique cases by both internally reviewing cases and by calling Respondents for re-interviews. The Assistant Manager will provide these findings to the DCC Manager and onsite contract supervisors for correction.
• The incumbent is responsible for many of the daily internal processes for the DCC. This includes importing files, requesting cases, responding to emails from the National or Regional Offices, managing internal processes, and providing procedural guidance to the contract staff.
• Monitors contract staff to ensure all work is completed accurately and in a timely manner. Keeps the DCC Manager informed about the DCC's operational status.
• Utilizes databases, spreadsheets and report writer software to analyze program data.
• As directed by the DCC Manager, lead teams to test software, improve training modules, or develop new collection procedures.
• Provides onsite and remote training for new hires and refresher training as needed.
• In the absence of the Data Collection Center Manager, serves as liaison between the DCC, the Regional Office, BLS National Offices, and the other Data Collection Center Managers.
• The incumbent will be become fully certified in operating the PIV Badge Credentialing Center and will be the secondary operator in the absence of the Administrative Assistant which includes conducting enrollments (fingerprints, taking photos, scanning identity documents) as well as updating and issuing badges.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Incumbent will become fully certified in all aspects of data collection for the Current Employment Statistics program and maintain an active case load.
• Conducts Quality Assurance at the Data Collection Center (DCC). The incumbent will critique cases by both internally reviewing cases and by calling Respondents for re-interviews. The Assistant Manager will provide these findings to the DCC Manager and onsite contract supervisors for correction.
• The incumbent is responsible for many of the daily internal processes for the DCC. This includes importing files, requesting cases, responding to emails from the National or Regional Offices, managing internal processes, and providing procedural guidance to the contract staff.
• Monitors contract staff to ensure all work is completed accurately and in a timely manner. Keeps the DCC Manager informed about the DCC's operational status.
• Utilizes databases, spreadsheets and report writer software to analyze program data.
• As directed by the DCC Manager, lead teams to test software, improve training modules, or develop new collection procedures.
• Provides onsite and remote training for new hires and refresher training as needed.
• In the absence of the Data Collection Center Manager, serves as liaison between the DCC, the Regional Office, BLS National Offices, and the other Data Collection Center Managers.
• The incumbent will be become fully certified in operating the PIV Badge Credentialing Center and will be the secondary operator in the absence of the Administrative Assistant which includes conducting enrollments (fingerprints, taking photos, scanning identity documents) as well as updating and issuing badges.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Provides technical expertise in the area of forage science, especially forage grasses.
• Recommends amount, source, and methods for applying chemical/organic fertilizers and pesticides to research plots and pastures.
• Assists in developing modified field equipment to meet specialized needs for planting, managing, and harvesting research trials.
• Undertakes routine care, maintenance, and calibration of moderately complex equipment and instruments, assists in the development of modified field equipment, providing input regarding requirements and fabrication.
• Shares responsibility for ongoing assessment, development, and/or maintenance of buildings, roads, experimental pastures, irrigation systems, fences, work areas, corals, wells, water impoundments, and Center grounds.
• Keeps land use history, including kind of crops grown, amounts and sources of fertilizers and pesticides used, and crop culture practices.
• Provides administrative and technical supervision to the field support group to meet needs of the research program and to maintain and improve location facilities.
• Writes periodic laboratory reports on experimental design, principle, procedures, and results.
• Performs a wide range of duties designed to solve agronomic research problems to provide year around grazing and forage production.
• Modifies methods, if necessary, to solve problems or make improvements. Devises experimental protocols to help meet program objectives.
• Maintains agronomic and conservation practices of all areas of the Center including those not under experimentation.

• Performs a broad range of strategy, plans, and policy analyses assignments developing methodologies for and evaluating the utility of C5I systems, related equipment, and force structures.
• Utilizes scientific inquiry in the independent development of mathematical models and computer programs to evaluate and predict the ability to support assigned projects, studies, or problems.
• Assesses the adequacy of organizational risk management and current and prospective solvency positions under normal and severe stress scenarios to analyze all reasonably foreseeable and relevant material risks.
• Attends meetings, conferences, briefings, and seminars related to program planning, advanced technologies, and support system concepts.
• Accomplishes professional development and maintains technical proficiency through professional interaction with technical and professional societies, associations, academia, symposia, contractors, research and development (R&D) organizations and participation in formal training programs within the space continuum of responsibility.

• Calibrates, deploys, operates, and maintains a variety of specialized equipment including, but not limited to, eddy covariance, relax eddy accumulation, and scintillometry systems and meteorological, vegetation, and soil sensor packages.
• Selects the appropriate methods and procedures used in collecting and analyzing micrometeorological, hydrologic, and biophysical measurements for advancing the project.
• Maintains detailed records of experimental activities including data collection, postprocessing, and analysis techniques, including any modifications to the methodology applied and the effects of those changes.
• Assists with the collection and analysis of air, water, and soil samples in the field and laboratory.
• Contributes as a team member to all phases of the research process to achieve project objectives as outlined by the supervisor and assumes full technical and operational responsibility for specific components of the research.
• Compiles and maintains datasets by conducting post-processing, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), formatting, documentation, and storage tasks for all incoming data.

• You will conduct operations research using innovative analytical approaches and applies techniques in a creative manner to solve very difficult problems, enhance performance, or increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• You will make prediction and analyze end results pertaining to future demand forecasts or explain past events while recommending best alternatives, relevant tradeoffs and limitations, review, model and analyze data from multiple datasets.
• You will provide critical cost and estimating support to acquisition milestone decisions, or oversight reviews through the application of independent studies, Analysis of Alternatives, Economic Analysis, Cost as an Independent Variable analysis.
• You will conduct training sessions in a formal and informal environment specific to cost estimating procedures, data analytical evaluation techniques and policy to improve quality of existing cost estimating capability mitigating cost learning gaps.
• You will utilize approaches/techniques incorporating engineering, physics, mathematics and economics principles to complete analyses.

• Maintain shop and storage areas and equipment (air compressor) operational, including ventilation and dust control systems.
• Perform miscellaneous maintenance and repair duties that relate to facility or building repair, i.e., painting, roofing, minor cement repairs, office renovation, and move equipment, furniture, stored material.
• Ability to read and interpret repair and maintenance manuals and schematic drawings.
• Use power and hand tools and is responsible for their maintenance and proper use.
• Periodic security and operational checks to ensure that the alarm response system for equipment breakdowns is working properly.

The National Defense University (NDU) is seeking an Institutional Research, Assessment and Accreditation Associate II. The successful candidate will work within a college team on program evaluation of effectiveness and participate in the following critical academic support tasks: data management and analysis, reporting, and assessment. The institutional effectiveness team facilitates evidence-based planning and decision making, ensures compliance with accreditation standards, and fosters a culture of continuous institutional improvement and success.

Major Duties: Responsible for supporting data collection and analysis of student, faculty, and program performance. Specific duties include creating, distributing, and aggregating data from student and faculty surveys; assisting with data entry and manipulation in learning management system; creating, editing, and data entry in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and various software programs; and providing customer service to faculty and students. Support is provided in three primary functional areas, and specific duties in each area include:

• Institutional effectiveness- data management, analysis, presentation and reporting for institutional effectiveness (primarily Microsoft Excel); interpretation of data trends and other statistical results (Excel and SPSS); consultation with stakeholders.
• Educational Assessment - assessment planning and implementation, analysis of assessment data, interpretation of assessment results, and consultation with stakeholders.
• Accreditation and report writing- assisting with data used for compliance with accreditation standards and requirements.

• Serves as a recognized expert responsible for providing all-source intelligence analysis on the Central Asia region and its five states, including leadership, political and economic developments, and foreign and national security policy.
• Represents the Department in interagency meetings, provides guidance to Department policymakers, briefs key stakeholders in the U.S. Congress, and serves as an expert in various intergovernmental and non-governmental fora.
• Advises on and performs research and other professional work in support of the formulation and direction of U.S. foreign policy and bearing on U.S. relations with foreign governments and international organizations.
• Evaluates information and initiates research bearing on the implementation of existing and proposed policies.

As a Transitional Teacher (Science) CY-1701-11, your typical work assignments may include the following under supervision:

• Prepare yearly instructional outlines and related daily lesson plans covering relevant units of study and specifying objectives, activities and evaluative methods/instruments for both group and individual instructional programs.
• Teach students by selecting, developing, adapting and implementing appropriate instructional methods and techniques utilizing available resources to provide for academic achievement.
• Continuously evaluate individual and group academic progress through the use of criterion-referenced tests, periodic standardized tests, oral tests, and/or other relevant evaluative methods/instruments.
• Develop and conduct instruction within an environment that provides and promotes opportunities for the students to develop rapport, inter-relationships, self-discipline and a positive self-image.
• Maintain control of assigned class(es) and handle discipline independently except for chronic or extreme behavior problems.
• Supervise assigned students as scheduled, or provide for their supervision, throughout the academic day and/or activity in order to provide for the safety, health, and welfare of the students in compliance with school, Agency, and Area Guidelines.

Economists in the Compliance Risk Analysis Division (CRAD) will conduct quantitative analysis and research to support bank supervision and to advise OCC senior management on policy and regulation related to topics including consumer protection, fair lending, financial technology and financial inclusion, credit access and community reinvestment, and bank secrecy/anti-money laundering.

As a Financial Economist, you will:

• Conduct onsite and offsite bank-specific analyses that relate to compliance risk at financial institutions.
• Apply models to test for violations of consumer regulations such as mortgage discrimination, or improper lending practices, and for unfair and deceptive practices with respect to consumer protection, and ineffective risk management of models with respect to anti-money laundering.
• Conduct research and prepare professional papers to be published In peer reviewed academic journals in such areas of labor, public finance, or other related applied microeconomic fields.
• Provide conclusions by preparing memoranda that evaluate bank compliance with consumer related, and bank secrecy/anti-money laundering regulations. Present such conclusions to bank management and examiners.
• Respond to requests for economic analysis of issues affecting the banking system, financial and consumer markets, and broad OCC operations from senior management.
• Present and actively participate in relevant conferences and seminars to retain, develop, and enhance econometric, economic, and statistical techniques, theories, and approaches for use in consumer protection, credit access, anti-money laundering and other compliance examination related areas in the financial institutions and markets.
• Initiate and manage consumer and community related and/or economic research projects to facilitate the development and understanding of new techniques for risk measurement components of compliance examination.