Health Promotion Specialist
- Location:
- North Carolina, Camp Lejeune
- Requires Relocation:
- No
- Start Date:
- 13/12/2024
- End Date:
- 26/12/2024
- Offering Type:
- Permanent
- Hiring Paths:
- The public
- Service Type:
- Competitive
- Travel Percentage:
- Occasional travel
About U.S. Marine Corps
The Navy and Marine Corps team offers innovative, exciting and meaningful work linking military and civilian talents to achieve our mission and safeguard our freedoms. Department of the Navy provides competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and extensive professional development and training. From pipefitters to accountants, scientists to engineers, doctors to nurses-the careers and opportunities to make a difference are endless. Civilian careers-where purpose and patriotism unite! This announcement uses the Certain Personnel of the DoD direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
Job summary
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
Major duties
You will assist in identifying individuals at risk and connect them to skill building activities that promote protective factors and/or support resources. You will provide leadership with information on available resources, how to reduce stigma and increase help-seeking behavior, and education on risk and protective factors. You will provide information, assistance and guidance to Marines in meeting personal and family problems; provide an organized system to bring together available resources to relieve personal problems effecting performance, morale and retention. You will provide psycho-education to build protective factor skills; conduct prevention education classes and groups with fidelity. You will conduct primary prevention education and training. You will build cognitive regulation, emotion and interpersonal skills to prevent sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, child abuse, suicide and other problematic behaviors. You will collect metrics and reports data to measure performance and effectiveness of Behavioral Programs; recommend efficiencies in the development and delivery of primary prevention; collect data on case outcomes and community outreach initiatives. You will conduct needs assessment surveys; consult and advise on methods to successfully provide integrated solutions to improve help seeking behaviors.
Qualification
Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Work with other professionals to help prevent suicide, sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, child abuse, and other problematic behaviors; conduct group psycho-education to build skills to promote protective factors; and provide evidence-based or evidence-informed, headquarters-approved social emotional skill building prevention and education. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/social-science-series-0101/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
Education
Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position 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 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. In lieu of specialized experience listed in the Qualifications section, applicants may qualify based on education OR equivalent combination of experience and education as follows: I have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or I have successfully completed three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree or I have successfully completed an LL.M. degree that is related to the position being filled: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/ or I have a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience. My percentage of the required education plus my percentage of the required experience equal one hundred percent.
Evaluations
In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation. If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation. If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All qualification requirements must be met before being considered for any vacancies.