Administrative Officer III Supervisor

Animal Health•Anne Arundel, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This position primarily supports the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) Animal Health – Field Services program by advancing the agency’s mission through external outreach, information dissemination, and stakeholder engagement. The role is responsible for oversight and management of the Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program, including coordination of animal health data systems and information management activities. This role also serves as the Animal Health Outreach Coordinator and serves as a primary contact and manager for outreach opportunities, resources and inquiries. Within these roles, this position assists with the development, administration, and reporting of federal grants that are critical to sustaining the Animal Health Program’s financial infrastructure. The role also provides supplemental field support during routine field operations as well as during poultry and livestock disease outbreaks, including but not limited to Avian Influenza, Swine Influenza, and Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

Requirements

Education : Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
Experience : Three years of administrative staff or professional work.
Candidates may substitute 30 college credit hours from an accredited college or university for each year up to two years of the required experience.
Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from a college or university for the required experience.
Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer involving staff work that included the regular use of independent judgment and analysis in applying and interpreting complex administrative plans, policies, rules or regulations or analysis of operational programs or procedures with recommendations for improvement on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
Employees in this classification will be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland.
Duties involve working in stressful environments, all kinds of weather and temperatures, unpleasant odors and other harsh environmental conditions.
Field and animal emergency work may require working outdoors in inclement conditions, outside normal work hours and working with unpleasant people.
Duties may involve working around and with domestic and large farm animals which can cause injury by kicking, biting, lunging, etc. Some equipment used in handling animals has a potential for bodily injury such as cattle chutes, rabies poles and needles.
Duties may, on occasion involve using heavy equipment such as gates, chutes and decontamination gear, passing a Pulmonary Function Test, wearing a respirator, restraining large animals and loading supplies.
Safe Restraint of large animals; lifting and handling awkward and heavy equipment used in the field and laboratories; agility such as climbing fences, gates, etc.
Duties may involve working with animals and specimens that may contain physical, chemical and biologic hazards. This employee must use protective equipment.
Employee must maintain protective titer to rabies by consenting to receive rabies pre-exposure vaccinations and periodic blood testing to determine titre.
Additional requirements may be added from time to time as necessary.
The employee must pass a respiratory exam and be familiar with the use of respirators.

Nice To Haves

Livestock handling experience
Laboratory accessioning and sample handling experience
Grant writing capabilities
Understanding of animal disease outbreaks
Understanding of animal diseases including regulatory medicine: animal import requirements, fair and show requirements, animal reportable diseases, foreign animal diseases, and certificates of veterinary inspection

Responsibilities

Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) Program Manager Coordinates multiple animal health data systems and information management activities to track Animals and Animal Premises
Coordinates inventory management of tags and tag readers.
Coordinates staff response to Exercise and Real Time Traceback Activities.
Develops and disseminates public education and outreach to promote Animal Disease Traceability for livestock owners.
Writes and manages various federal grants and cooperative agreements that provide funding for ADT activities.
Prepares reports including tag summaries, federal or state financial reimbursement forms and monthly grant reports.
Supervises other staff that are part of the ADT team.
Animal Health Outreach Coordinator Develops and disseminates public education and outreach to promote Animal Health program services for poultry and livestock owners.
Coordinates Outreach opportunities and ensures that staffing and resources are available for on site events.
Monitors and maintains the MDA Animal Health Social media accounts.
Seeks out funding opportunities for maintaining and increasing outreach supplies and activities.
Prepares reports including event summaries, federal or state financial reimbursement forms and monthly grant reports.
Field Inspection Conducts and participates in Agency operations by maintaining knowledge of agency protocols regarding basic animal diseases.
Conducts disease investigations under the guidance of Program Veterinarians for Rabies and other livestock disease events as assigned.
Conducts disease investigations for avian mortality/morbidity issues with guidance.
Assists in training animal owners in biosecurity and husbandry issues during disease investigations.
Assists other agricultural responders during poultry and livestock emergencies.
Provides support to logistical and tactical response in a Foreign Animal Disease event.
Program Invoicing Support Assists in preparing Invoices for Program Operations such as CEM and Lab Testing.
Serves as Liaison between AH program and other MDA departments that are involved in invoicing process, such as Fiscal.
Ensures that invoicing is prepared and submitted in a timely manner for customers for continuity of operations.
Animal Health Program Data Systems Support Learns processes involved with AH Program Data systems, including EMRS, VADDS, BYF Database, and others as needed.
Provides training and support for program staff and operations using these Data Systems.
Coordinates with Data System administrators, both internally and externally, to ensure data is accurate, up to date and accessible.