***This is a Title 5 Excepted Service National Guard Employee position*** This National Guard position is for a SELF-DIRECTED HARM PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF), Position Description Number T0030P01 and is part of the J9-JFHQ, New Jersey Army National Guard.

Duties

As a SELF-DIRECTED HARM PREVENTION SPECIALIST (PREV WF), GS-0101-12, you will:

Requirements

Qualifications

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must have at least 24 months experience, education or training analyzing problems, identifying significant factors, gathering pertinent data and recognizing solutions; preparing reports, plans, policies and various correspondence; evaluating objectives and develop plans to facilitate the availability and effective utilization of various social science resources. Experience utilizing the organization, its mission and the organizational staff procedures. Experience interacting with a variety of groups and/or individuals; and the ability to apply analytical and evaluative techniques to the identification, consideration, and resolution of issues or problems of a social science procedural or factual nature. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicant must possess at least ONE (1) year in the occupational series code 0101 at the next lower-level GS-11 or THIRTY-SIX (36) months of specialized experience performing or supervising duties such as acting as subject matter expert on Integrated Primary Prevention as applied to Self-Directed Harm Prevention; advancing policies outside of the existing Resilience, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention (R3SP) and Suicide Prevention for equities specific to self-directed harm primary prevention responsible for facilitating dialogue between state programs, divisions, directorates, and other areas relevant to the earliest prevention of self-directed harm; supporting engagement in existing state tools and programs; establishing measures of effectiveness in the primary prevention of self-self-directed harm; assisting with data-informed courses of action appropriately resource self-directed harm primary prevention activities; establishing, revising, and reviewing policies, procedures, mission objectives, and organizational design; advising leaders at all levels of best practices and evidence-based programs, policies, and plans; conducting educational sessions and briefings regarding the primary prevention of self-directed harm; coordinating multidisciplinary evaluations; consulting with managers in areas that impact self-directed harm; ensuring combined prevention trainings are coordinated; analyzing and recommending changes to surveys and trainings for self-directed harm; maintains an understanding of self-directed harm policies; coordinating with full time personnel managing resiliency, suicide, or substance/drug misuse programs; supporting and participating in state-level committees, boards, and working groups.

Education

NO SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

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.


OPEN UNTIL FILLED: THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS OPEN UNTIL THE VACANCY IS FILLED. IT MAY BE EXTENDED OR CLOSED PRIOR TO THE CLOSING DATE. FIRST CUT OFF DATE FOR APPLYING IS 08-FEB-2024, QUALIFIED APPLICIANTS WILL BE REFERED DURING THIS DATE. APPLICANTS CAN UPDATE APPLICATION INFORMATION/RESUME ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS DURING ANYTIME WHILE THE JOB IS OPEN. ADDITIONAL CUTOFF DATES WILL BE DETERMINED AS NEEDED.

Contacts

• Address NJJFHQ 3650 Saylors Pond Rd Fort Dix, NJ 08641 US
• Name: Bernard Nartey
• Email: [email protected]