Subject Matter Specialist - Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
Required skills
- Nutrition
- Physical Activity
- Obesity Prevention
- ECE
- FHWP
- Food Service
- Breastfeeding
- Arthritis
- Community Design
- Technical Assistance
Nice to have
- CDC
- HHS
- Federal Health Agency
- Public Health Recipient Network
Role summary
This role provides applied specialty expertise and hands-on technical assistance in nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention to public health recipients and partners. The Subject Matter Specialist will develop practical guidance, implementation tools, and training resources to help recipients adopt and sustain evidence-based strategies. Key responsibilities include delivering technical assistance, identifying barriers, supporting various collaborative forums, and documenting services and outcomes. A Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of directly relevant applied experience are required, with experience in public health recipient support being preferred.
Subject Matter Specialist
Position Status: Contingent upon contract award.Position Summary
Provide applied specialty expertise and hands-on technical assistance to help DNPAO recipients and partners adopt, implement, adapt, and sustain evidence-based public health strategies. This role provides hands-on specialty support to DNPAO recipients and partners implementing evidence-based nutrition, physical activity, obesity-prevention, ECE, FHWP, food-service, breastfeeding, arthritis, or community-design strategies. The specialist will help translate subject expertise into tailored technical assistance, implementation tools, trainings, action plans, and practical recommendations responsive to recipient context and identified barriers.Key Responsibilities
- Deliver individual and group technical assistance within the assigned specialty.
- Develop practical guidance, implementation tools, presentations, training resources, and technical products.
- Help recipients identify barriers, select appropriate strategies, and strengthen implementation plans.
- Support webinars, office hours, workgroups, partner calls, site visits, and learning communities.
- Identify emerging evidence and promising practices relevant to DNPAO strategies.
- Document technical-assistance needs, services, outcomes, challenges, and recommendations.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree.
- Experience: At least 8 years of directly relevant applied experience in the designated specialty, including technical assistance, implementation support, training, stakeholder engagement, and development of practical tools or guidance. Experience working with public health recipients, community partners, or CDC-funded strategies is 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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; and the ability to work effectively with CDC staff, recipients, partners, subcontractors, and subject matter experts.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.
