Food Safety Inspection Service Malak Scholarship Program

Overview
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). FSIS is on the front line every day inspecting meat, poultry, and egg products. The Agency coordinates inspection and enforcement activities in more than 6,500 federally inspected establishments nationwide, as well as at import establishments, ensuring that the products that FSIS regulates are safe, wholesome, and properly labeled.
As an Adel A. Malak Scholarship recipient, you will experience and take on a variety of PHV responsibilities to more fully
understand the important work FSIS does to protect public health through food safety. Working in federally inspected
establishments, you may:
• Assist in the examination of livestock and poultry for the purpose of detecting diseases or abnormalities that would
render the meat unfit for human food purposes. Work with food inspectors to perform visual, tactile and incisory
inspections of heads, viscera, carcasses, and edible offal.
• Assist a FSIS PHV in making dispositions on abnormal animals, carcasses, or birds retained for veterinary examination.
These include findings of infectious diseases, neoplasms, trauma, contamination, chemical residues, metabolic
disorders, etc.
• Assist inspection program personnel performing foreign animal disease surveillance.
• Assist a FSIS PHV in performing activities to verify that animals are handled and treated humanely.
• Observe conditions in the establishment to ensure that it meets prescribed sanitary requirements.
• Observe conditions in the establishment to ensure the plant is following its sanitation standard operating procedures.

Eligibility
1. Be a U.S. citizen.
2. Be enrolled full-time in a degree-seeking DVM program at an accredited veterinary college or university that is a registered
entity in the System for Award Management.
3. Have completed not more than 2 full academic years of study in veterinary medicine.
4. Be in good academic standing.
5. Agree to work for FSIS during school breaks for at least 640 hours prior to completion of studies.

Award
1. $15,000 scholarship funding for tuition, books, tutors and laboratory fees awarded for each year in the program, up to
four years.
2. Paid employment during summer and school breaks as a Veterinary Student Trainee while you complete your DVM. The
work schedule during the academic year is negotiable. The Adel A. Malak Scholarship provides the opportunity to work a
minimum of 640 hours to meet Pathways Program requirements for conversion to SPHV upon graduation.
3. Conversion without further competition to a permanent appointment with promotion potential to the GS-12 level
with FSIS upon successful completion of the program with a DVM degree, training, and other work requirements. Note
that upon conversion, the employee may be assigned supervisory responsibilities. The location of the position will be
discussed with the student prior to conversion to federal employment.
4. Comprehensive mentorship and professional development program.
5. Participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan (401K plan) and paid vacation and sick
leave

Scholarship Link
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/807392500