Prevention Analyst

About the role

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to empower the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to protect our nation's interests in air, space, and cyberspace. This is more than a job; it's a calling to serve.

Responsibilities

• Lead collection, analysis, interpretation, and visual implementation of data for the installation Integrated Resilience Office.
• Maintain consistent and reliable information to inform decision-making, strategies, policy, and program evaluation.
• Serve as a Prevention Analyst under the direction of the Integrated Prevention Chief.
• Support prevention partners, leadership, and the general population with understanding self-directed harm and prohibited abusive or harmful acts from a public health perspective and establishing a culture of prevention.
• Collaborate and integrate primary prevention efforts in areas such as sexual assault, family violence (incl. intimate partner violence and child abuse and neglect), workplace violence (including sexual harassment, bullying and hazing), suicide, and alcohol and substance use/abuse/misuse prevention.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Able to obtain & maintain a “Secret” Security clearance
• Must meet screening/suitability criteria listed in Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Air Force (DAF) guidance.
• Comprehensive and professional knowledge of laws, regulations, and policies as well as behavioral, social science and/or public health practices principles and theories relating to the prevention of violence, promotion of help-seeking, and resilience.
• Thorough knowledge of a wide range of delivery systems relating to violence prevention and the multiple uses of such systems.
• In-depth knowledge of DAF culture, military family dynamics, related professional fields, and a thorough knowledge of the DAF community and the unique challenges that DAF families face; or equivalent knowledge.
• Knowledge of quantitative techniques and methods used to develop, adapt, modify, and apply models to resolve problems or define and clarify alternative solutions to inform prevention efforts; ability to formulate and conduct assessments and evaluations to implement and monitor primary prevention plans.
• Ability to provide professional advisory services, develop and utilize appropriate data collection techniques and design, build, and use models and simulation techniques for prevention.
• Ability to identify individual and community risk and protective factors in order to determine needed primary prevention activities to meet the needs of the base populace.

Qualifications

• At least a bachelor’s degree in a 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.
• Master’s degree or higher in a behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position (highly desired).