Violence and Injury Prevention Evaluator

 The Work Unit

The Violence and Injury Prevention-Mental Health Promotion (VIP-MHP) Branch exists to coordinate state and local efforts toward the prevention of death and disability in Colorado due to unintentional and intentional injuries, including substance abuse and misuse prevention, through surveillance, health policy, legislation, public awareness, and education, training, assessments, and intervention programs. We are aware that many kinds of injury and violence share the same systemic causes: poverty and economic instability; lack of substance use treatment and mental health services; social norms related to violence; and a lack of social connectedness that affects us all and leaves too many youth unconnected or unsafe at school. as we seek to address these crucial issues, We commit to being responsive to the reality that structural racism intensifies each of them.  The VIP-MHP Branch recognizes that racism is a public health crisis and is committed to importing racial and other forms of equity through all its programs.  These systemic injustices and additional risk and protective factors are shared across many of the outcomes we address.  Our work will continue until all Coloradans have the opportunity to live and have healthy lives in a way that celebrates intersectional identities including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, education level, age, language, religion, ability, and geographic location.  Collectively we can all work to achieve this goal by improving racial justice and other forms of equity through all of our programs and practices.

The Position
The purpose of this position is to serve as an evaluator for the VIP-MHP Branch’s violence and injury prevention, and substance misuse projects, including those related to federal funding (i.e., CDC's Overdose Data to Action cooperative agreements, CDC's Comprehensive suicide prevention grant, CDC's Core State Injury Prevention Program (SIPP), and Bureau of Justice Assistance grants) and state funding (Naloxone Bulk Fund,  Office of Suicide Prevention, and marijuana cash fund). This position will work independently to conduct evaluation activities and qualitative and quantitative analyses. With guidance from the Program Integration and Evaluation Unit Manager, this position will design and implement evaluation plans to determine the effectiveness of Colorado’s prevention strategies to impact the major drivers' violence, injury, suicide, and substance use and to facilitate program improvements. This position will be responsible for using existing and new data sources for primary data collection to measure short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term outcomes. This position will create and execute analysis plans using multiple data sources and will be responsible for reporting the CDC’s required evaluation indicators. This position will be responsible for interpreting evaluation results and disseminating the evaluation findings in order to inform prevention efforts and ensure continuous quality improvement. The person in this position must have significant data analysis and evaluation experience, including experience using statistical software.

The preferred experience, competencies, and abilities are highly desirable for this position and will be considered in selecting the successful candidate:

• Ability to articulate the components and complexities of data to a variety of audiences at different competency levels (middle school level to professional conference and peer-reviewed literature);
• Strong data science and relational database skills for manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing a wide variety of data sets;
• Experience designing and implementing public health analysis projects;
• Experience evaluating projects related to injury and violence prevention, substance misuse prevention, drug overdose prevention, or similar projects;
• Demonstrated ability to determine the most appropriate research/evaluation design, given project goals, and document methods in a written plan;
• Experience collecting, managing, cleaning, analyzing, and/or interpreting both quantitative and qualitative data;
• Experience reporting data results and evaluation findings both written and verbally and displaying data in visually appealing ways for a variety of audiences (i.e., reports,
   summaries, dashboards, presentations, etc.;
• Experience incorporating equitable evaluation practices into evaluation planning and implementation;
• Critical thinking; ability and motivation to develop creative solutions to complex, interpersonal, process, and systemic challenges;
• Initiative and self-management; the ability and drive to dive into work and accomplish tasks within established timeframes;
• Self-efficacy, flexibility, adaptability to ambiguous projects, and the ability to perform research or ask questions to identify an appropriate course of action.
• Understanding of how the Social determinants of health (SDOH) impact health outcomes and health equity, and the implications for data analysis and reporting.

Conditions of Employment

• Effective September 20, 2021, employees will be required to attest to and verify that they are fully vaccinated for COVID 19, or submit to twice-weekly serial testing. Upon hire, the employee appointed to this position will have three (3) business days to provide attestation to their status with proof of vaccination or begin twice-weekly serial testing for COVID 19. Please indicate that you are aware of this condition of employment.  
• A pre-employment criminal background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Felony convictions or conviction of crimes of moral turpitude or convictions of misdemeanors related to job duties may disqualify you from being considered for this position. Conviction does not mean automatic disqualification and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Should your background check reveal any charges and convictions, it is your responsibility to provide the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Human Resources office with an official disposition of any charges.
• This is a term-limited position and funding cannot be guaranteed beyond August 31, 2023.
• Able and willing to drive independently up to 5% of the time.

Applicant Checklist: The following must be submitted by the application deadline.

1. A completed State of Colorado application submitted online via governmentjobs.com
2. A resume;
3. Transcripts (if applicable);
4. Supplemental questionnaire.

 The Selection Process 

1. All applications that are received by the closing of this announcement will be reviewed against the Minimum Qualifications in this announcement. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications proceed to the next step.
2. Colorado Revised Statutes require that state employees are hired and promoted based on merit and fitness through a comparative analysis process.
   • Part of, or all of, the comparative analysis for this position may be a structured application review, which involves a review of the information you submit in your application materials by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) against the preferred qualifications.
3. A top group, up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.

APPEAL RIGHTS: If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for the position or that as a result of no longer being considered, you were discriminated against, you may protest the action by filing an appeal with the State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director within 10 days from the date you receive notice of the elimination. Also, if you wish to challenge the selection and comparative analysis process, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director within 10 days from the receipt of notice or knowledge of the action you are challenging. If an applicant seeks to have an allegation of discrimination reviewed by the Board, that person must file an appeal (petition for hearing) within 10 days of the action or receipt of any final written selection decision. Refer to Chapters 4 and 8 of the State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, 4 CCR 801, for more information about the appeals process. The State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures are available at www.colorado.gov/spb. A standard appeal form is available at: www.colorado.gov/spb. If you appeal, your appeal must be submitted in writing on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative, and received at the following address within 10 days of your receipt of notice or knowledge of the action: Colorado State Personnel Board/State Personnel Director, Attn: Appeals Processing, 1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Fax: 303-866-5038. Phone: 303-866-3300. The ten-day deadline and these appeal procedures also apply to all charges of discrimination.

E-Verify: CDPHE uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
 
You must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be appointed to this position. CDPHE does not sponsor non-residents of the United States.

ADAAA Accommodations:
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them.  Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, a medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or performing essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator at cdphe.humanresources@state.co.us or call 303-692-2060, option 5.

Salary : $58,056 - $84,984