Do you desire a career that provides you with opportunities to improve the world around you? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is seeking diverse individuals from all backgrounds to apply for a career position that makes a direct impact on improving the lives of Colorado residents. Our mission is to advance Colorado's health and protect the places we live, work, learn, and play. Our vision is to create a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive.

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Our tobacco-free campus offers free parking and is conveniently located near RTD bus lines, Glendale City Set, and the Cherry Creek bike path. In addition to a great location and rewarding, meaningful work, we offer:

• Employee wellness programs and facilities
• Extensive internal professional development opportunities on a wide variety of subjects
• Bike to work programs, including access to storage lockers and bike racks
• Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the State system
• Strong, yet flexible retirement benefits including a choice of the PERA Defined Benefit Plan or the PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus optional 401K and 457 plans
• Medical and dental health plans
• Paid life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• 11 paid holidays per year plus generous personal time off
• Mentoring program with opportunities for mentors and mentees
• Tuition assistance for college-level courses including Masters degree programs
• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, and
• A variety of employee resource groups

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to: https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/pslfFlow.action#!/pslf/launch

The Program
The Prevention Services Division (PSD) works with public and private partners across Colorado to improve the health of all Coloradans. Division professionals develop, review, implement, and evaluate public health interventions proven to promote healthy living, prevent chronic disease, protect against injury, improve maternal and child health, and ensure access to health care and opportunities for a healthy lifestyle. The Division works to establish integrative, cross-cutting approaches within the Division's programs that leverage human and financial resources and produces the most effective public health prevention programs in the nation. The Division is committed to the professional development, collaborative effort, and sustained wellness of its workforce.

The Epidemiology and Evaluation Branch provides epidemiological, surveillance, and evaluation support to the Violence and Injury Prevention-Mental Health Promotion (VIP-MHP) Branch and the Office of Suicide Prevention in the Prevention Services Division. Branch team members collaborate with program staff and communities to make data accessible, meaningful, equitable, and actionable. The teams of the branch believe in a data-to-action approach that informs knowledge of risk and protective factors. The branch centers on equity and social justice, and guides decision-making to improve resilience and health outcomes for all Coloradans.

The Position

• defining goals and objectives
• guides stakeholders/partners and other evaluators in determining the focus for evaluations
• selects qualitative or quantitive methods to answer prioritized evaluation questions
• assesses the statistical reliability and validity of potential measurement instruments or data sources and/or designs new instruments or data collection tools as needed
• performs analysis of evaluation data

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  Graduation from an accredited college or university in public health, psychology, sociology, social work, evaluation or a closely-related field

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  Two (2) years of professional experience in suicide prevention, substance misuse, violence prevention, or injury prevention evaluation planning and implementation.

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  A master's or doctorate degree in public health, psychology, sociology, social work, evaluation, or a closely-related field may substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Master's degree in public health, social work, evaluation or related field
• Experience in community engagement as part of evaluation planning, implementation, data collection, and data interpretation
• Experience in evaluating policy, systems or environmental change strategies
• Experience providing technical assistance to others regarding evaluation, data collection, and data interpretation
• Experience in analyzing qualitative and/or quantitative data
  

• Pursuant to CDPHE policy, a background check is required for all positions at CDPHE.
• Must be able and willing to travel independently up to 5% of the time. Overnight may be required for both in-state and out-of-state trips.

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 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.

A complete application packet must include:

• A completed State of Colorado application.
• A cover letter that describes how your experience aligns with the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position.

• If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214 attached to your colorado.gov/jobs application.

The Selection Process

• 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.
• 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.

• A top group, of up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.