Transportation Injury Prevention Manager - Term Limited
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Transportation Injury Prevention Manager - Term Limited
Salary
$71,544.00 - $93,012.00 Annually
Location
Denver, CO
Job Type
Full Time
Job Number
FAA01983-08/29/25
Department
Department of Public Health & Environment
Division
Prevention Services Division
Opening Date
08/29/2025
Closing Date
9/9/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA
Determined by Position
Type of Announcement
This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address
4300 Cherry Creek S DR, Glendale, CO 80246
FLSA Status
Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information
haley.schwenger@state.co.us
Salary Note
Although the full salary range for this position is provided, appointments are typically made at or near the range minimum.
How To Apply
Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.
Description
Benefits
Questions
Department Information
This position is only open to Colorado state residents.
This is a Term-Limited position with the term ending 09/30/2026.
This posting may be filled by multiple positions and may be extended.
This position will have a hybrid workplace options available but will still be required to report to the listed address at the discretion of the supervisor and based on business need.
Although the full salary range for this position is provided, appointments are typically made at or near the range minimum.
Be BOLD and make a real difference ...
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
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 (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/state-of-colorado-employee-benefits)
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 Master's degree programs
Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, and a variety of employee resource groups
Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service
Please Note - As of August 27, 2025, a hiring freeze is in effect for the Colorado Executive Branch. State agencies will be allowed to finalize the hiring process only if a position has been posted by August 26, 2025. Any positions that are posted after August 26, 2025 have been either exempted from the hiring freeze or have been approved for a waiver and the hiring process may proceed.
Description of Job
The Work Unit :
The Prevention Services Division 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 and ensure access to health care and opportunities for a healthy lifestyle. The Division is committed to the professional development, collaborative effort and sustained wellness of its workforce. The Prevention Services Division is actively building a workforce reflective of the diverse communities we serve. The Division strives to understand the needs of Colorado's communities and encourages contributions of stakeholders in identifying and solving public health problems. We are committed to providing a respectful, supportive and inclusive work environment that demonstrates our commitment to accept and respect individuals from all communities.
The Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch (HPCDP), in the Prevention Services Division (Division), plans, designs, implements, and evaluates public health interventions related to chronic disease and related risk factors, with a goal of improving health-related quality of life for all Coloradans. Special emphasis is placed on evidence-based practices, analyzing and making data and evidence-informed decisions, capacity-building, partnerships, and integration between program efforts for efficiency and effectiveness. The HPCDP Branch includes Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Alzheimer's and other related Dementias, Comprehensive and Colorectal Cancer Control, Healthy Eating and Active Living, Tobacco Education, Prevention and Control, the Cancer, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease Grants Program, and Healthy Communities.
The Healthy Communities Unit collaborates across the Branch, Division and Department and across multiple sectors to advance evidence-based policies and environmental change strategies to impact community health across the lifespan. The conditions of the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age affect a wide range of health and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. Many health risk factors share the same systemic causes, including the lack of built environments to support physical activity, transportation safety, access to nutritious foods, and social connectedness, as well as poverty and economic instability. As we seek to address these crucial issues, we commit to being responsive to the reality that structural racism intensifies each of them. The HPCDP Branch recognizes that racism is a public health crisis and is committed to improving racial and other forms of equity through all of its programs.
What you will be doing
The Transportation Injury Prevention Manager serves as an expert on the public health approach to reducing deaths and serious injuries on Colorado roadways. This position will work closely with the Colorado Department of Transportation Highway Safety Office and other partners to advance the Safe System Approach. The Safe System approach aims to eliminate fatal and serious injuries for all road users through comprehensive, collaborative, transportation safety strategies and data-driven interventions across the five elements of a safe transportation system-safe road users, safe vehicles, safe speeds, safe roads, and post-crash care. This position will lead the integration of public health methods into transportation safety efforts to advance population-level injury prevention at a systems level. Advancing population-level injury prevention includes traditional individual-level education, active safety measures, and upstream strategies to reduce risk factors and address injury burden through the built environment and socioeconomic factors in communities.
What you will be doing:
Provide leadership, guidance, and strategic direction for implementing CDPHE's public health, safe system approach to transportation safety to protect vulnerable roadway users and reduce transportation crashes that cause serious injuries and fatalities.
Advance a comprehensive, collaborative, and population-level public health approach to transportation safety and injury prevention. This includes systems-level public health activities (e.g., policy change, data analysis, coalition-building, program evaluation, and traffic safety) and traditional activities, including education and active safety measures (e.g., child passenger safety, seat distribution, and educational programs).
Represent transportation injury prevention and safety initiatives during the annual legislative session, including providing information, analyzing the public health impact of proposed bills, and best practice recommendations to the PSD and CDPHE Legislative team on transportation safety bill proposals.
Collaborate with transportation agencies, law enforcement, healthcare providers, cross-sector coalitions, and community organizations to identify risk and protective factors, advance robust safety data systems, and implement data-driven evidence-based injury prevention initiatives to reduce serious injuries and deaths on roadways.
Provide program management, fiscal and budget management, and ensure the successful implementation of the department's transportation injury prevention program and interagency agreement with CDOT.
Identify funding opportunities and lead competitive funding applications and annual renewal applications.
Provide strategic direction and facilitate the development and implementation of innovative cross-program work plans for transportation injury prevention, active transportation, maternal and child health, and the built environment.
Work lead two full-time staff in the Healthy Communities Unit.
Essential Competencies
Strong Communication Skills:Ability to communicate effectively with staff, state agency partners, and other stakeholders in person and in writing. Maintain ongoing communication with stakeholders across the state. Comfort presenting, communicating, and synthesizing complex information to a wide variety of audiences.
Critical Thinker: Take initiative to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options, consider alternative solutions, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information, and use sound reasoning to arrive at appropriate decisions.
Collaborative:Ability to work effectively with others including colleagues, key stakeholders, etc, regardless of position and authority, to achieve common goals while maintaining clear lines of responsibility and accountability.
Results Driven: Ability to meet organizational and grant goals. Ability to work, coordinate activities, and ensure effective performance while operating within time constraints and competing priorities.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Residency Requirement:
This posting is only open to residents of the State of Colorado at the time of submitting your application.
Class Code & Classification Description:
H1S4XX
PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROFESSIONAL IV (https://dhr.colorado.gov/class-description-and-minimum-qualifications-for-h1s-public-health-community-outreach-professional)
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
An applicant may meet the minimum qualifications for this job in one of two ways: They may qualify through their work experience alone or through a combination of education and work experience.
Experience Only:
Seven (7) years of relevant experience in applying public health strategies to enhance health outcomes, including informing policy or systems changes, providing technical assistance, program management, staff leadership or supervision, and coordinating multi-sector partnerships.
OR
Education and Experience:
A combination of related education, graduation from an accredited college or university in public health, public policy, urban planning, or a closely related field, and/or relevant experience in applying public health strategies to enhance health outcomes, including informing policy or systems changes, providing technical assistance, program management, staff leadership or supervision, and coordinating multi-sector partnerships equal to Seven (7) years.
**If using education to qualify for this position a copy of your transcripts (unofficial acceptable) must be provided with application.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
In addition to the minimum requirements, the successful candidate in this position will have the following experience:
Demonstrated knowledge of evidence-based injury prevention frameworks and the Safe System Approach to address roadway safety.
Experience leading teams and fostering a positive, results-driven work environment.
More than five years of experience applying public health community-level strategies and evidence-based injury prevention frameworks to advance health and transportation safety.
Demonstrated ability to provide strategic direction and leadership for cross-functional teams, focusing on systems-level collaborative approaches.
Excellent reasoning, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, including using data to plan, evaluate and improve strategies and programs.
Experience providing education or technical assistance to groups and individuals to identify and implement policies, best practices, and innovative solutions.
Demonstrated program management skills, including experience managing grants, contracts, and budgets, and leading competitive funding applications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences, including community groups, legislators, and organizational leaders.
Experience in analyzing proposed policies, assessing public health impacts, and recommending evidence-based solutions.
Experience fostering relationships across sectors, particularly those involving governmental and community partnerships, to advance public health or transportation goals.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Pursuant to CDPHE policy, a background check is required for all positions at CDPHE.
TRAVEL: 10% of time, required travel related to grant award management or implementation, and travel across CO related to program implementation or partnership development. Some travel out of state may be required by CDC funding or to attend professional development trainings or conferences.
Appeal Rights:
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State
Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. Appeals to the State
Personnel Board or the State Personnel Director must be received or postmarked within the filing period: Appeals shall be filed with
the Board no later than ten (10) days after receipt of the written notice of the action, or if no notice was received, no later than (10)
days after the employee knew or should have known of the disputed action. Filings can be by mail, hand-delivery, fax or email. Send
the completed form with all supporting attachments to the State Personnel Board and provide a copy to the Department (the
"Respondent") identified by you (the "Complainant") in PART 1 - General Information and Disputed Employment Action.
State Personnel Board
1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, Colorado 80203
Fax Number: 303-866-5038
Email filings: dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us
For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to
spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and
Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
Supplemental Information
A complete application packet must include:
A completed State of Colorado application.
Fully answered supplemental questions per guidance.
If using education to qualify for this position a copy of your transcripts (unofficial acceptable) must be provided with application.
If using work experience to qualify for this position, please provide an adequate description in the work experience section of the application. Do not write "see resume".
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, up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.
E-Verify: CDPHE uses e-Verify, an Internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States. Learn more about E-Verify (http://www.dhs.gov/e-verify) , including your rights and responsibilities.
You must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be appointed to this position. CDPHE does not sponsor non-residents of the United States.
ADAAA Accommodations :
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator at cdphe.humanresources@state.co.us or call 303-692-2060, option 5.
The State of Colorado offers permanent employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information: www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/benefits
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CDPHE-A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. As a condition of employment, are you willing and able to submit to a background check if offered the position?
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As a condition of employment, this position requires independent and/or team travel to and from work locations in the performance of job-related duties. Do you accept this as a condition of employment?
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If you are a veteran, please attach your DD214 to your application. If you have a disability, also attach the letter issued to you from the Veterans Administration verifying that you are currently receiving monetary benefits or you that have a disability retirement.
Yes, I have attached a copy of my DD214 to my application.
No, I am not a veteran.
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Are you a current or past employee of the State of Colorado?
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If you indicated that you are a current or past State of Colorado employee, please list all State of Colorado Departments or institutions of Higher Education for which you have worked for and your Employee ID (if known):
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CDPHE: This position requires educational transcripts be submitted if you are using education to meet the minimum qualifications for this position or for the substitution of education for some experience. If you are using education to meet the minimum qualifications or substitution for this position, a copy of your unofficial (or official) transcript is required by the application deadline. You must attach this transcript to your application electronically.
I Understand
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I acknowledge this is a term limited position with a term end of 9/30/2026.
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CDPHE-Applicants for State of Colorado classified positions must be current residents of Colorado. Are you a current resident of the State of Colorado who can provide proof of Colorado residency?
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Please acknowledge that your answers to the Supplemental Questions below will be used in the Comparative Analysis phase and that you have answered all questions.
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Tell us how your experience is relevant to this position. Please describe in detail, including the number of years, your professional experience applying public health community-level strategies and/or evidence-based injury prevention frameworks to advance health and transportation safety. (Describe in 2-3 paragraphs). (Describe in 2-3 paragraphs)
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Please describe your experience with program management. How did you ensure the program's successful implementation, work plan monitoring, budget management, contract management, and securing funding for the program? Share an example of a successful project you managed, highlighting your approach to developing a work plan, managing expectations and timelines, and ensuring success. (Describe in 2-3 paragraphs)
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Please describe how you have supported and mentored staff members to achieve program goals. Please include an example of a time when you helped a team member grow professionally or navigate a challenging situation to ensure the success of the team or program. (Describe in 2-3 paragraphs)
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Please describe your approach to building cross-sector relationships with stakeholders, staff, leadership, and/or external partners. Please include an example of collaborative work you have done with a group to address a complex problem or change/create a new policy. (Describe in 2-3 paragraphs)
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