[Hiring] Subject Matter Expert @PCI Professional Services

Role Description

Serve as a senior technical authority in one or more DNPAO strategy areas and provide evidence-informed consultation, technical assistance, product review, training, and strategic guidance to CDC, recipients, and partners. This role supports DNPAO’s need for highly specialized expertise across:

• Food service guidelines
• Produce prescription and food-is-medicine programs
• Physical activity access
• Healthier food access
• Early Care and Education
• Family Healthy Weight Programs
• Breastfeeding
• Tribal populations
• Arthritis
• Related policy, systems, and environmental strategies

SMEs may support the consultant network, recipient technical assistance, trainings, evidence reviews, policy and program guidance, and scientific or practice-oriented products.

Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree.
• Experience: At least 10 years of directly relevant experience in the proposed specialty, including senior advisory or technical leadership responsibility.
• Experience supporting evidence-based public health strategies, recipient or practitioner technical assistance, scientific or policy products, and federal, state, local, Tribal, territorial, community, or national partners is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, timely, and high-quality work in a multidisciplinary, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, organization, judgment, and client-service skills.

Requirements

• Prior experience supporting CDC, HHS, another federal health agency, a public health recipient network, or a comparable mission-focused organization.

Core Competencies

• Public service orientation
• Technical credibility
• Cultural responsiveness
• Collaboration
• Clear communication
• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Quality focus
• Sound judgment
• Ability to work effectively with CDC staff, recipients, partners, subcontractors, and subject matter experts.

Benefits

• PCI Federal Services (PCIFS) and its subsidiaries is an equal-opportunity employer.
• PCIFS does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.
• Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates in accordance with applicable federal law.