ICF works at the forefront of today's public health issues, helping clients improve health outcomes through evidence-based strategies, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, and implementation support. Our work addresses complex public health challenges related to chronic disease prevention, healthy communities, health equity, nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, and population health improvement.
ICF seeks a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist to support capacity-building, training, technical assistance, health communication, and knowledge-sharing activities for CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) and other public health clients. This work focuses on strengthening the capacity of state, local, tribal, territorial, and community-based organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based health communication and health promotion strategies related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, healthy communities, and chronic disease prevention. The specialist will support communication-focused technical assistance, training, resource development, and dissemination activities designed to improve public health practice and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will join a multidisciplinary team to coordinate, deliver, and support training and technical assistance activities. This includes assisting with recipient support, development of resources and communication materials, facilitation of learning opportunities, website and resource-center support, consultation support, and project coordination activities.
The specialist will help public health recipients and partners strengthen their health communication capacity by supporting communication planning, message development, audience engagement, dissemination of evidence-based resources, and evaluation of communication activities. This role will support the delivery of communication-focused technical assistance and consultation provided through virtual and in-person interactions with recipients and partners.
The position requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, initiative, and the ability to collaborate effectively with project team members, clients, partners, and public health practitioners.
Successful candidates should be eager to support innovative approaches to public health capacity building and continuous learning. Ideal candidates are organized, flexible, and skilled at translating public health information into practical resources and actionable guidance.
Candidates should have a background in public health, health education, community engagement, health communication, training and technical assistance, program implementation, or related fields. Experience supporting public health initiatives related to chronic disease prevention, health promotion, nutrition, physical activity, community health, or health equity is desirable.
What You'll Be Doing (Responsibilities/Day-to-Day)
Primary responsibilities for this position will involve supporting training and technical assistance activities under the direction of senior project leadership.
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Support delivery of evidence- and practice-based health communication technical assistance, training, and consultation activities related to nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, healthy communities, health equity, and chronic disease prevention.
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Assist with needs-assessment and recipient-engagement activities to identify challenges, opportunities, gaps, and technical assistance needs among recipients and partners.
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Support recipients and partners in developing and implementing communication plans, communication strategies, messaging, outreach materials, and related public health communication activities.
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Support development and dissemination of practical tools, resource guides, communication materials, templates, and implementation supports for public health practitioners.
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Coordinate and support webinars, workshops, virtual trainings, meetings, peer exchanges, communities of practice, and other learning opportunities.
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Support technical assistance consultation requests by coordinating meetings, preparing materials, documenting recommendations, and tracking follow-up activities. Technical assistance may be delivered through phone, email, video conference, web conference, or in-person meetings.
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Assist with review and quality improvement of communication plans, implementation plans, messaging, outreach materials, educational products, and other communication resources developed by recipients and public health partners.
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Contribute to website and resource-center content development and maintenance.
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Support development and organization of resource libraries, including conducting environmental scans and identifying promising practices and evidence-based resources.
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Contribute to literature reviews and synthesis of public health information.
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Coordinate meeting logistics, scheduling, communications, materials development, note-taking, and action-item tracking.
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Support development of reports, presentations, briefs, communication resources, implementation supports, and other written products.
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Assist with collection, tracking, analysis, and reporting of technical assistance, training, educational-material, and participant-satisfaction metrics.
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Contribute to evaluation and continuous quality-improvement activities.
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Ensure quality control and adherence to project timelines and deliverable requirements.
Basic Requirements
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Bachelor's degree in public health, health education, public policy, behavioral or social sciences, nutrition, exercise science, communications, or a related field.
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At least 2 years of professional experience supporting public health, health education, capacity building, training and technical assistance, community engagement, health communication, program implementation, or related activities.
Additional Requirements
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Experience supporting meetings, trainings, webinars, stakeholder-engagement activities, or technical assistance projects.
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Experience applying adult-learning principles, facilitation techniques, instructional-design approaches, health-education practices, or related methods.
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Experience developing tools, guidance documents, communication materials, training materials, implementation resources, or public health products.
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Experience supporting dissemination, knowledge sharing, resource development, or recipient engagement activities.
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Experience with qualitative or quantitative data collection, reporting, and evaluation activities.
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Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
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Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
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Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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Strong technical writing and editing abilities.
Desired Requirements
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Experience reviewing, developing, adapting, or disseminating public health communication products such as communication plans, toolkits, messaging guides, educational materials, campaign materials, newsletters, fact sheets, or implementation resources.
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Experience supporting public health programs related to chronic disease prevention, healthy communities, nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, health promotion, or health equity.
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Experience supporting federally funded projects, cooperative agreements, or recipient-support activities.
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Experience working with state, local, tribal, territorial, nonprofit, or community-based organizations.
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Experience supporting health communication, health promotion, public awareness, social marketing, dissemination, or community-engagement initiatives.
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Familiarity with public health capacity-building, technical-assistance, or training approaches.
Please note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact [email protected] for assistance.
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.
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We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
