Senior Violence Prevention Specialist

Senior Violence Prevention Specialist

Battelle is guided by a founding mission. We invest our knowledge, talents and resources, helping our customers achieve their most important goals. We apply scientific rigor and creativity, succeeding where others may fail and we invest in our communities, making the world better for generations to come. All of us share a common purpose: to solve the greatest challenges of today and tomorrow.

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

To support our mission, the Health Research and Analytics (HRA) business line is currently seeking a full-time Senior Violence Prevention Specialist to support our government customer. This position is contingent upon contract award. This position is anticipated to support a new contract currently pending award and is subject to contract award and funding.

Battelle is seeking a subject matter expert (SME) in violence prevention to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). The SME will provide strategic and technical expertise across NCIPC's violence portfolio by delivering expert consultation, supporting literature reviews and manuscript development, assessing current and future program needs, facilitating change management initiatives, and guiding implementation of evidence-based public health strategies.

The successful candidate will coordinate multidisciplinary activities, develop integrated program and service approaches, build effective cross-functional support structures, and provide leadership across multiple client engagements to ensure the delivery of high-quality, timely products and services that advance CDC's injury prevention mission.

This role requires recognized expertise in violence prevention and demonstrated experience working with CDC or other federal public health organizations. The position is remote with proximity to Atlanta, GA preferred, and travel to Washington, DC and Columbus, OH required.

• Serve as a technical authority and trusted advisor to CDC and other public health stakeholders.
• Provide expert consultation and analysis on violence epidemiology, surveillance, prevention, intervention design, implementation, and program strategy.
• Lead or contribute to literature reviews, environmental scans, evidence syntheses, technical reports, manuscripts, presentations, and scientific products.
• Assess current-state program operations, stakeholder roles, workflows, evidence use, and performance; develops future-state recommendations, strategic roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Plan and facilitate change management activities including stakeholder engagement, readiness assessments, communications, implementation support, adoption monitoring, and organizational transition planning.
• Apply quality controls to deliverables, including methodological review, source verification, citation review, version control, and senior scientific review to ensure timely and high-quality outputs.
• Guide implementation of violence prevention strategies and management of technical support services supporting the NCIPC violence portfolio.
• Develop integrated product and service strategies; provide scientific analysis, interpretation of evidence, and strategic recommendations to support portfolio goals and decision-making.
• Create workplans, governance structures, decision frameworks, review processes, and implementation approaches for project components while ensuring alignment with broader program objectives.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and multifaceted program activities; develop integrated scientific, technical, and operational strategies that connect stakeholder needs, resources, and performance goals.
• Build and sustain cross-functional teams, collaborate across disciplines, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and establish processes that support efficient delivery of technical assistance and subject matter expertise.
• Provide leadership across multiple client engagements, establish overarching technical vision, manage interdependencies and risks, and ensure alignment across concurrent violence prevention initiatives.

• Master's degree or higher in public health, epidemiology, violence prevention, behavioral or social science, implementation science, health policy, medicine, nursing, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in public health research, violence prevention, surveillance, implementation, or a closely related area.
• Documented experience working at or with CDC, another federal health agency, or a comparable public health organization.
• Relevant licensing, certification, credential, publication history, or other evidence of recognized subject matter expertise.

• Doctoral degree in public health, epidemiology, violence prevention, behavioral or social science,…