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PRIMARY PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF)
Army National Guard Units · Posted 17 days ago
On-site Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ $88K – $114K Apply by Sep 29, 2026 Social Science INFJINFPINTJINTP
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***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 T0029P01 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-0101-11 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.
- →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 suicide prevention program, 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.
- →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.
- →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.
Requirements
- ✓Areas of Consideration: US Citizens Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance within 1(One) Year of appointment.
- ✓Employment ends unless certified in writing that it advances the agencies interest.
- ✓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.
- ✓You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓To receive credit for education, you must provide the proper documentation as proof of meeting the educational requirement for this position.
Personality Fit
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