Community Program Peer Network Coordinator- Headquarters Advisor

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** Job Summary*
* The Health Research and Analytics (HRA) business line is seeking a highly motivated, full-time  
** Community Program Peer Network Coordinator Component Headquarters Advisor (CPPNC-CHA)
** to join our team in support of our government customer, U.S. Special Operations Command. This position will play a critical role in advancing the Preservation of the Forces and Family (POTFF) program, which is dedicated to optimizing and sustaining the mission readiness, longevity, and performance of Special Operations Forces (SOF). Through integrated and holistic human performance initiatives, POTFF strengthens both the Forces and their families, ensuring comprehensive support for those who serve.

As a Community Program Peer Network Coordinator Component Headquarters Advisor, you will contribute to impactful research and analytics that drive evidence-based decision-making and enhance the effectiveness of these vital programs. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of SOF personnel and their families while working in a dynamic, mission-driven environment.

The Community Program Peer Network Coordinator Component Headquarters Advisor serves as a USSOCOM liaison and Component CPPNCs advisor, leading the assessment, planning, implementation, and continuous improvement of community and peer mentoring programs to enhance service member and family well-being, reduce help-seeking behavior stigma, and prevent suicides. This role is responsible for advising policy and procedural reviews, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams across Services, DoD, and civilian sectors, and ensuring program alignment, efficacy, and resource optimization through collaborative partnerships.

Additionally, this role provides comprehensive training and consultation to peer mentors and CPPNCs, facilitates communication between component levels and headquarters, and prepares formal reports to deliver force-wide and regional programmatic feedback.

** Responsibilities*
* + Serves as a liaison for USSOCOM and advisor for Component CPPNCs

+ Assess, plan, implement, coordinate and monitor community and peer mentoring programs designed to increase quality of life for service members and families to reduce stigma for help-seeking behaviors and reduce suicides within the USSOCOM community using a collaborative team approach

+ Responsible for advising on development of broad and comprehensive policy and procedural reviews of region-wide and component-wide community and peer mentoring programs to evaluate efficacy of programs and provide recommendations for improvement

+ Assess needs, evaluate efficacy, and implement programs in partnership with Echelon III commands

+ Serves as advisory role for planning, executing and continuously improving peer mentorship programs and collaborates with Operations Officers, Command Leadership, and family support coordinators among others to understand Component needs and resource availability/constraints to facilitate program execution

+ Coordinates with Service representatives, multidisciplinary professional staff and other service providers within the Services, DoD, and civilian sector to align programs with other existing programs, evaluate utilization, and obtain input for areas of improvement

+ Assists in the training of Peer mentors which may include travel to other Component locations to meet with new volunteers and staff and the commands they support and to provide consultation and training to CPPNCs throughout the Component Commands

+ Serves as communication link between multiple components levels of CPPNCs and HQ USSOCOM

+ Works with regional, component and command CPPNCs to aggregate, prepare, and submit formal reports using input from all CPPNCs and command leadership to provide force wide and regional programmatic feedback

+ Coordinates with a variety of Service, DoD, and civilian programs, including installation family and social service agencies, chaplains, benevolent/charitable organizations, and others

+ Provides force wide and region wide training and consultation

** Key Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree in education, human/social services or related field or four years' experience in providing social service education or work/family life consultation or coordination services

+ At least four years' experience coordinating social service education programs

+ Prior training or willing to receive specialized training on peer support counseling, community resources and referrals and suicide prevention, and keep abreast of DoD, Services, and…