Primary Prevention Specialist (Prev Wf) (Title 5

Primary Prevention Specialist (Prev Wf) (Title
5) Gs-0101-12

You will directly support the development and execution of policies, programs, and procedures for implementing integrated primary prevention activities relating to self-directed harm (i.e., self-cutting, drug and alcohol abuse, thoughts of suicide, self-directed abusive thoughts, suicide attempts and suicides), and interpersonal violence (i.e., sexual assault, workplace harassment, and domestic violence), averting harm or abuse before it occurs. Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:

• 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.
• Conducts educational sessions and briefings for JFHQ leadership and JFHQ Program Managers (i.e., State Family Programs Director, Chaplains, State Equal Opportunity Manager, Resilience, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention Program Manager, IPP SMEs) regarding the primary prevention of self-directed and interpersonal harm.
• Ensures evidence-based practices are incorporated in prevention efforts.
• Maintains insight into the National Guard Bureau (NGB) IPP office to track efforts, measurements, and advisory councils or decision making bodies.
• Assists TAG, Assistant TAG, IPP Officer, directorate, and division-level leadership with data-informed courses of action to appropriately resource self-directed and interpersonal harm primary prevention activities and requirements throughout the state.
• Develops performance measures to meet statutory and regulatory compliance, implements quality improvement plans, and assesses the effectiveness of TAG's IPP program.
• Advises leaders at all levels of best practices and evidence-based programs, policies, and plans that increase primary prevention capacity within their organizations.
• Assists with IPP needs assessments.
• Coordinates with full-time personnel managing resiliency, suicide, or substance/drug misuse programs to secure access to de-identified data that will be used for developing products, statistical analysis, tracking, reporting, evaluating program effectiveness, and conducting research for the primary prevention of self-directed and interpersonal harm.