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A complete application consists of:

• An application
• Transcripts – Click here for detailed information about acceptable transcripts
• A current resume/CV, including academic history, employment history, relevant experiences, and publication list
• One educational or professional recommendation. Your application will be considered incomplete, and will not be reviewed until one recommendation is submitted.

All documents must be in English or include an official English translation.

*Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis.

CDC Office and Location: A research opportunity is currently available with the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Team, in the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the major operation components of the Department of Health and Human Services. CDC works to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same. For more than 20 years, CDC’s Injury Center has helped protect Americans from injury and violence. We work to understand how injury and violence impact all of us and what we can do to prevent it.

Research Project: The IPV Prevention team houses all work in the branch related to IPV prevention, as well as supplemental funding to recipients to address the COVID-19 Pandemic. The IPV Prevention Team’s specific goals include the development, implementation, and evaluation of cooperative agreements and other mechanisms designed to prevent IPV nationally. Further, the IPV Prevention team aims to provide training and technical assistance to the recipients of IPV prevention-related funds. The current cooperative agreement, DELTA Impact, is a five-year cooperative agreement that supports nine State Domestic Violence Coalitions (SDVCs) and local sub-recipients to implement strategies and approaches designed to prevent IPV at the community and societal levels. The purpose of DELTA Impact is to decrease risk factors in communities that may lead to IPV and to increase protective factors that prevent it.  

Learning Objectives: The participant will be involved with the IPV Prevention Team to evaluate the DELTA Impact program and to understand how recipients plan, implement, and evaluate IPV prevention strategies at the community and societal level. This includes participating in managing and analyzing data and contributing to the development of translation and dissemination products. The participant will learn to bring together multiple streams of information to develop evaluation findings. The participant will be mentored by Loren Faust-Thomas, the lead Evaluation Officer for DELTA Impact, but will have an opportunity to collaborate with other staff including project officers and other evaluation officers.

 Specific activities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support for and help to facilitate the DELTA Impact evaluation; assist with the collection, management, analysis, and synthesis of evaluation data
• Learn to coordinate and develop materials for translation and dissemination of evaluation findings
• Communicate with program staff, subject matter experts, and partners to implement the initiative level evaluation
• Learn to present findings to internal and external audiences
• Support evaluation officers in the delivery of evaluation training and technical assistance to DELTA Impact recipients
• Provide support to evaluation officers in the development of upcoming NOFOs

Mentor(s): The mentor for this opportunity is Loren Faust-Thomas (yhv2@cdc.gov). If you have questions about the nature of the research please contact the mentor(s).

Anticipated Appointment Start Date:  Spring 2022.  Start date is flexible and will depend on a variety of factors.

Appointment Length: The appointment will initially be for one year, but may be renewed upon recommendation of CDC and is contingent on the availability of funds.

Level of Participation: The appointment is full-time.

Participant Stipend: The participant will receive a monthly stipend commensurate with educational level and experience. 

Citizenship Requirements: This opportunity is available to U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR), and foreign nationals. Non-U.S. citizen applicants should refer to the Guidelines for Non-U.S. Citizens Details page of the program website for information about the valid immigration statuses that are acceptable for program participation.

ORISE Information: This program, administered by ORAU through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and CDC. Participants do not become employees of CDC, DOE or the program administrator, and there are no employment-related benefits. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE.

The successful applicant(s) will be required to comply with Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) requirements of the hosting facility, including but not limited to, COVID-19 requirements (e.g. facial covering, physical distancing, testing, vaccination).

Questions: Please visit our Program Website. After reading, if you have additional questions about the application process please email ORISE.CDC.NCIPC@orau.org and include the reference code for this opportunity.

The qualified candidate should have received a master's degree in one of the relevant fields, or be currently pursuing the degree with completion by the end of May 2022. Degree must have been received within the past five years.

Preferred skills:

• Competencies to apply program evaluation concepts and methods to public health programs
• Training or experience with public health concepts particularly as they apply to health promotion and prevention
• Training or experience with collecting, extracting, and managing data; implementing procedures for evaluation activities, and disseminating evaluation findings
• Training or experience with qualitative and quantitative methods applied to public health programs
• Competencies to develop high quality written materials and deliver presentations
• Experience with violence prevention

• Degree: Master's Degree received within the last 60 months or anticipated to be received by 5/31/2022 11:59:00 PM.
• Minimum Overall GPA: 3.00
• Discipline(s):
  • Communications and Graphics Design (2 )
  • Life Health and Medical Sciences (1 )
  • Mathematics and Statistics (1 )
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences (1 )