The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is launching this call for expressions of interest in order to establish a reserve list for the following temporary agent profile:
Scientific Officer – Ecotoxicology / Environmental Risk Assessment (AD6)
The job
The Scientific Officer will work in one of the work areas covering environmental issues relating to the Evaluation, Authorisation, Restriction processes (REACH Regulation), the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) and to the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation. The Scientific Officer will work in multidisciplinary teams evaluating and developing scientific and technical information on ecotoxicity, exposure and risks of chemical substances to the environment.
In particular, she/he will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Evaluating relevant sections of the dossiers submitted by industry or assessment reports prepared by the Member States and comments received on these documents;
- Assessing and providing expert opinions on ecotoxicology and environmental fate, the relevance and reliability of experimental studies, justifications for use of rules for adaptation of information requirements, assessing and evaluating non-testing information, relevance and conclusions made in the environmental effect, exposure and PBT assessment and risk characterisation;
- Examining and verifying the environmental emission estimation, exposure and risk assessment;
- Assessing the environmental hazard profile of chemical substances (e.g., in relation to the classification and the PBT/vPvB -criteria);
- Preparing and/or supporting the development of Agency’s decisions and opinions;
- Preparing, managing and follow-up of the meetings of ECHA’s Committees, relevant working groups and expert groups including support to their Chairs, rapporteurs and dossier submitters. The Scientific Officer may also contribute to the other tasks:
- Assessing the validity of derogations from and adaptations of test methods used in experimental ecotoxicology and environmental fate studies;
- Assisting in the preparation of the ECHA opinion on substances that are potential candidates for substitution;
- Contributing to the identification of the need for guidance on technical and scientific issues and to the preparation of such guidance;
- Analysing, developing, testing and promotion of the use of IT tools supporting the execution of these tasks (e.g. R4BP, EUSES, IUCLID and (Q)SAR tools);
- Developing working procedures and formats relating to the above mentioned processes, carrying out testing and providing appropriate feedback during the (further) development;
- Developing new and on-going strategic, technical and scientific issues, approaches and activities in support of the legislative frameworks related to the Agency’s tasks (e.g. approaches to identify substances requiring further regulatory actions, preparation and revision of emission scenarios, tools for facilitating the exposure assessment);
- Engaging in other scientific/technical tasks and/or projects (including planning, work organisation, priority setting, progress monitoring and regular and accurate reporting).
The closing date and time for submission of applications for this call is 10 December 2015 at noon 12.00 Helsinki time (11.00 Central European Time).
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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