Primary Prevention Specialist

**Duties**:
As a PRIMARY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF), GS-0101-11 you will:

- Serves as the Primary Prevention Integrator (PPI) managing all aspects of a complex integrated primary prevention program (P3) for the Wing/Region.
- Serves as the Wing/Region point of contact for the sexual violence, workplace and domestic violence programs in a non-clinical primary prevention, here after referred to as prevention, role in coordination with applicable offices and community agencies.
- Delivers initial prevention activities, averting harm or abuse before it occurs.
- Identifies risk and protective factors that lead to or protect against unhealthy or unsafe behaviors.
- Promotes actions to mitigate environmental factors.
- Develops coordinated plans for reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors for increased resiliency within the community.
- Conducts assessments on strengths, weaknesses, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analyses that form the basis for action, implementation, and program plan development activities.
- Crafts formal assessments and evaluation processes to monitor outreach programs and services through evaluation of activities.
- Support inter
- and intra-personal violence prevention efforts and programming through the unit level leadership advisory committees, boards and working groups. Represents their population's integrated prevention efforts as a member of leadership advisory committees, boards and working groups.
- Collect, consolidate, and present relevant prevention program data to leadership advisory committees, boards, and working groups. Brief Commanders and senior personnel on Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP), as defined in applicable policy and official guidance, to obtain optimum support for IPP activities. Below the JFHQ level, chairs leadership advisory committees, boards and working groups, as requested by leadership.
- Serves as the organizational liaison for local military and civilian agencies to promote timely information exchange, coordinate collaborative prevention efforts, and establish resource links and community partnerships. Incorporates comprehensive strategies to enhance community strengths, address broad-based community needs, suggest community problem solving methods, and forge community connections.
- Network with internal programs and offices at the JFHQ, Wings, and BDEs (such as Behavioral Health, Equal Opportunity, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Family Programs, Yellow Ribbon, and Substance Abuse Program) to standardize and synchronize training and evaluation in order to provide a well-coordinated approach to prevention.
- Responsible for developing and overseeing healthy climate, resiliency, risk reduction activities, trainings, and communication campaigns within the organization Advises commanders in communicating prevention plans and programs to subordinate units.
- Recruit, train, and facilitate military volunteers for prevention activity implementation.
- Employ health education and communication skills associated with prevention activities to foster healthy social and cultural norms. Identifies and selects mediums that provide the greatest exposure for universal IPP efforts.
- Provide technical oversight to service members within the JFHQ, Wings, and BDEs who are assigned to perform integrated prevention activities at the Unit level.
- Establishes networking, advocacy, and collaboration processes through which to promote IPP to the community.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:
**Areas of Consideration**:

- **US Citizens**

**Must be able to pass and maintain a Secret Security clearance.**

**Additional Employment Requirements**:

- Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
- Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
- Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.
- **This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.**

**Qualifications**:
**GENERAL EXPERIENCE**:
- **SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE**:
**Education**:
**EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS**

Degree: Behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position that included at least 24 semester hours of course work in the behavioral or social sciences.

OR

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 that included at least 24 semes