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Responsibilities include:

• Developing assessment approaches and methodologies for Life Science programs Leading audit teams domestically and overseas
• Writing evidence-based findings reports and presenting results to Stakeholders
• Developing analysis frameworks for performance measurement
• Executing audits and assessments to a variety of international standards including ISO 17025:2017, ISO 35001, and ISO 15189.
• Providing analysis and recommendations for safety, security, and quality improvements
• Developing audit and assessment plans
• Performing environmental scans for a variety of research topics in the life science domain area
• Preparing technical presentations, reports, whitepapers, tutorials, and other materials as necessary to communicate the progress and findings of projects to colleagues and government sponsors
• Independently authoring detailed, accurate, and accessible documentation (including scientific papers) describing findings and results
• Presenting scientific findings and project results to the internal team and external partners

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must have a background in the life sciences with a Masters degree in one of these areas: Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Biodefense, or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in academia, industry, or government
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
• A track record of developing and executing audits and evaluations
• Demonstrated ability to lead independent assessments
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
• Experience as an independent evaluator/assessor, including design of assessment approaches and methods and elucidating evaluation criteria where there isn’t a standard available.
• Experience as an auditor/lead technical assessor for some or all of the following standards: ISO 17025:2017, ISO 15189, ISO 9001, and ISO 35001.
• Experience auditing life science laboratories such as public health labs, clinical diagnostic labs, veterinary labs, analytical chemistry labs, and biodefense labs.

Experience with the following:

• performing independent assessments
• documenting findings based on objective evidence
• interacting with auditees
• leading audit teams
• generating audit reports
• Experience implementing process improvements to remediate issues
• Knowledge of Occupational Health & Safety/Industrial Hygiene
• Knowledge of Biological Safety principles and practices
• Knowledge of Biological Security principles and practices
• Experience with Quality Assurance/Quality Control in the laboratory setting
• Candidate must be able to travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with international programs

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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