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PRIMARY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF)
Air National Guard Units · Posted 109 days ago
About the Role
***This is a Title 5 Excepted Service National Guard Employee position*** This National Guard position is for a PRIMARY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF), Position Description Number T0061P01 and is part of the J9-JFHQ, New Jersey Army National Guard. The primary purpose of this position is to implement and support integrated prevention programs.
What You'll Do
- →As a PRIMARY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF), GS-0101-12 you will: Serve as the point of contact for harm and abuse prevention programs and activities; provides program coordination and serves as the subject matter expert for JFHQ, Wings, and BDEs Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP) Program.
- →Advances policies, practices, and plans outside of the existing Resilience, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention (R3SP) (Army) and Suicide Prevention (Air) office, among others, for equities specific to self-directed and interpersonal harm primary prevention.
- →Establishes procedures, mission objectives, and organizational design to eliminate barriers to mission accomplishment.
- →Facilitates dialogue between state programs, divisions, directorates, and other areas to capture existing risk and protective factors related to the earliest prevention of self-directed and interpersonal harm though existing councils and circulation among the formation.
- →Serves as the Primary Prevention Integrator (PPI) managing all aspects of a complex integrated primary prevention program (P3) for the Wing/Region.
- →Maintains a parallel and clearly defined supporting role to existing JFHQ data collection efforts and advocates prevention messaging with sensitivity to pre-existing trauma.
- →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.
- →Develops coordinated plans for reducing risk factors and promoting protective factors for increased resiliency within the community.
- →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.
- →Briefs 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.
Requirements
- ✓Areas of Consideration: CAT 5, All permanent, on-board, Title 5 Employees within IPPW organization.
- ✓Must possess an active Secret Security Clearance.
- ✓The incumbent of this position description must have at a minimum, a completed National Agency Check (NAC) prior to position assignment.
- ✓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.
- ✓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 semester hours of course work in the behavioral or social sciences.
- ✓OR 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a3122e1c-cc14-465d-8479-9265fa03a88a
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