Transportation Injury Prevention Manager - Term Limited

The Position

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 datadriven interventions across the five elements of a safe transportation systemsafe road users safe vehicles safe speeds safe roads and postcrash care. This position will lead the integration of public health methods into transportation safety efforts to advance populationlevel injury prevention at a systems level. Advancing populationlevel injury prevention includes traditional individuallevel education active safety measures and upstream strategies to reduce risk factors and address injury burden through the built environment and socioeconomic factors in communities.

• Advance a comprehensive collaborative approach to improve transportation safety and provide leadership guidance and strategic direction on departmental decisions related to transportation safety and prevention efforts.

• Provide leadership guidance and strategic direction for implementing CDPHEs public health safe system approach to transportation safety to protect vulnerable roadway users and reduce transportation crashes that cause serious injuries and fatalities.

• 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.

• Integrate the public health approach into transportation safety efforts to advance populationlevel injury prevention. This includes systemslevel public health activities (e.g. policy change data analysis coalitionbuilding program evaluation and traffic safety) andtraditional activities including education and active safety measures (e.g. child passenger safety seat distribution and educational programs).

• Collaborate with transportation agencies law enforcement healthcare providers crosssector coalitions and community organizations with to identify risk factorsadvance robust safety data systems and implement datadrivenevidencebasedinjury prevention initiatives to reduce serious injuries and deaths on roadways.

• Provide program management fiscal and budget management and ensures the successful implementation of the departments 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 crossprogram work plans for transportation injury prevention active transportation maternal and child health and the built environment.

• Supervise three fulltime 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.

You must be legally eligible to work in the United States to be appointed to this position. CDPHE does not sponsor nonresidents 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 preemployment 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 Dan McKenna at or calloption 5.