This vacancy is for a GS-0601-13, Health Promotion Program Manager located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, HSWL WORK LIFE DIVISION. This job opportunity announcement is open to current and former permanent employees within the local commuting area of the duty location listed for this position. This job opportunity announcement has an applicant cutoff of 50 applicants.
Individual Occupational Requirements/Basic Requirements: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: EDUCATION: Basic Requirements Degree: Have a bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree: major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position. AND To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Specialized experience must include the following: Serve as the program manager and as a senior advisor/subject matter expert on health promotion concepts encompassing the assets of educational, environmental, and medical support services enabling the program users to increase control over, and improve their quality of life, health, wellness, and well-being; and Develop and provide reports, narrative presentations, fact sheets, information papers, action memorandums, statistical graphs, charts, and research publications when necessary, displaying and presenting them to senior staff members, other federal and national Health Promotion program managers, DHS personnel, and other entities as deemed appropriate; and Review and interpret new directives and instructions, assessing their policy/operational impacts and developing and supporting necessary recommendations for policy changes; and Provide technical guidance to the Health, Safety, and Work-Life (HSWL) Service Center regarding Health Promotion Program implementation, administration, evaluation, and modification, in accordance with all governing laws, policies, and guidance. NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
You will serve as a Health Promotion Program Manager and be responsible for Health Promotion and Operational Stress Control program matters that pertain to policy, direction, planning, program management and administration, oversight, education, and outcome evaluation. This position is also responsible for systematically and deliberately applying evidence-based information directed toward discovering, disseminating, and applying new or expanded research data concerning human behavioral traits and lifestyle choices to the current initiatives of other Behavioral Health Services Division programs, including Substance Abuse Prevention Program, Suicide Prevention Program, Employee Assistance Program, Family Advocacy Program, and other various Work-Life programs, including Culinary Services. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Establish policies and strategic plans which ensure the development and implementation/execution of a comprehensive Health Promotion and Operational Stress Control programs. Advise USCG senior leadership of the needs and trends occurring within the realm of Health Promotion. Oversee, direct, and implement proscriptive and prescriptive, select, and indicated prevention strategies. Introduce new or revised approaches to Health Promotion.