Integrated Primary Prevention; IPP) Specialist

• Department: Department of Homeland Security

This vacancy is for a GS-0101-12/13, Integrated Primary Prevention Specialist located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Human Resources in several U.S. Coast Guard base locations.

You will serve as an Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP) Specialist and be responsible for consulting local commands and subordinate units addressing a broad range of Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP) issues within their area of responsibility. You will also collaborate with internal and external entities to ensure optimal planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Command IPP activities.

Individuals covered by the IPP Program include active-duty members, selected reserve personnel, civilians, and their family members. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include:
Executing unit-level IPP program direction through dedicated planning, coordinating, implementing and monitoring.

This includes consultation, training, education, outreach, and evaluation of integrated primary prevention activities. These prevention activities address at least two or more problematic behaviors including, but not limited to, suicide, sexual harassment, sexual assault, substance misuse, domestic abuse, and child abuse. Evaluating effectiveness of Command prevention activities using analytical techniques and statistical methods.

Determining program impacts on critical readiness outcomes and adapts prevention activities according to local risk and protective factors, assessments, and progress. Informing leaders on the Command Climate Assessment (CCA) process, and advises on relevant prevention plans, initiatives, assessments and evaluations to ensure leaders have knowledge, skills, and abilities to address gaps and promote well-being for individuals, groups, and communities.

Consolidating data from diverse sources to identify critical prevention needs and guide recommendations. Leveraging data across prevention portfolios (family violence, suicide, sexual harassment, sexual assault) to inform reports, point papers, briefs, and other presentation mediums. Staying up to date on current research in the primary prevention field and respective disciplines.

Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests:
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