SUPERVISORY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREVENTION LEAD)(PREV WF)

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Department of the Defense Prevention Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: The Supervisory Prevention Specialist (Prevention Lead) (Prevention WF) serves as the Senior Commander's expert on prevention science and data-driven recommendations to improve the prevention system, address harmful behaviors, and create protective military communities.

Major duties

• Serve as the Supervisory Prevention Specialist (Prevention Lead) (Prevention Workforce) for the Integrated Prevention Advisory Group (1-PAG) at the Division or equivalent level.
• Advise senior leaders on primary prevention activities and the public health approach to preventing harmful behaviors.
• Advise senior leaders on how to address risk factors, develop protective factors, and how to act across the multiple levels of the Social Ecological Model (SEM).
• Coordinate, organize, implement, analyze, and integrate comprehensive primary prevention efforts through coalitions within and outside the military community and in accordance with relevant DoD and Army-level policy, laws, and regulations.
• Work with subordinates and other prevention partners to develop the prevention system (i.e., human resources, collaborative relationships, and infrastructure) and execute each step of the prevention process.
• Conduct and interpret needs assessments and complex analysis of existing integrated primary prevention capability and resource issues and assess factors that inhibit planning, implementation, and evaluation and document appropriately.
• Use a wide variety of public health tools and data science, statistical, and/or analytical techniques and processes to inform integrated primary prevention activities.
• Supervise a multi-disciplinary team of integrated primary prevention staff members.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Supervisory Prevention Specialist {Prevention Lead) {Prevention Workforce); Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in the behavioral or social sciences, or related disciplines appropriate to the position, such as prevention science or public health. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. OR Experience: Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service which includes experience conducting analysis of existing capabilities and resources to identify factors that inhibit implementation and evaluation of prevention activities; researching proposed approaches to prevention to ensure they are evidence-informed and will result in decreases of harmful behavior; supporting ongoing prevention policy development and refinement that supports the local prevention system and provides for evaluation of prevention strategy and activities; AND building the prevention capacity of the community through activities at the individual, interpersonal/family/unit, organizational, community and societal levels. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/