VACANCY: Risk Analyst, Centre for Epidemiology & Risk Analysis,
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, Surrey.
The VLA is an international centre of expertise in animal health
science, and provides a broad range of specialist veterinary services
and products to governments and commercial customers across the world.
* Do you want to put your quantitative skills to good use?
* Are you interested in biological systems, animal health and/or food
safety, and would you find the challenge of these complex issues
stimulating?
* Are you a team player with excellent communication and written
skills?
* Do you want to help inform Government policy in the area of animal
health and food safety?
If you can answer yes to all these questions, then why not consider a
career as a Risk Analyst at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency? Using
your existing and newly acquired knowledge you will assist in the
development of risk assessments, write project reports and scientific
papers, give oral presentations and keep up to date with developments in
selected areas of the risk analysis discipline. You must have a degree
in a quantitative subject or a degree that includes a substantial
quantitative element. Experience in risk assessment/mathematical
modelling would be desirable but not essential as on the job training
will be provided.
Reference No: ADP 4826.
The Civil Service offers a choice of either an Occupational Pension
Scheme or Stakeholder Pension scheme, giving you the flexibility to
choose the pension that suits you best. Other benefits include 30 days
annual leave, an on-site nursery, flexible working and annual pay
reviews.
Further details and an application form can be obtained from the VLA
website or by writing to: Personnel (JH), Veterinary Laboratories
Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB quoting the appropriate
reference number. The closing date for receiving completed application
forms is 19th June 2009.
The VLA is committed to equality and diversity in the workplace.
The VLA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs.
Thank you.
Dr David Munyinyi
Centre for Epidemiology and Risk Analysis,
Veterinary Laboratory Agency - Weybridge,
New Haw, Addlestone,
Surrey KT15 3NB
Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA)
VLA is hosting the international conference, Animal Diseases 2009,
from 2nd - 4th September at Royal Holloway, University of London.
We would like to invite submission of scientific papers
for presentation and nominations for the inaugural Rooker prize.
For further information, including sponsorship opportunities,
see http://www.defra.gov.uk/vla/news/new_conf_vla2009.htm
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