What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Injury Prevention Manager - Term Limited. position at Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment?
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.
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.
Be BOLD and make a real difference . . .
Do you desire a career that provides you with opportunities to improve the world around you? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is seeking diverse individuals from all backgrounds to apply for a career position that makes a direct impact on improving the lives of Colorado residents. Our mission is to advance Colorado's health and protect the places we live, work, learn, and play. Our vision is to create a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive.
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:
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 its programs.
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 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
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
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
Eight (8) 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 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 equivalent to Eight (8) years.
Preferred Qualifications And Essential Competencies
The preferred experience, competencies and abilities are highly desirable for this position and will be considered in selecting the successful candidate:
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. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgment of the department’s action.
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
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, Dan McKenna, at daniel.mckenna@state.co.us or call 303-692-2060, option 5.
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.
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.
Be BOLD and make a real difference . . .
Do you desire a career that provides you with opportunities to improve the world around you? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is seeking diverse individuals from all backgrounds to apply for a career position that makes a direct impact on improving the lives of Colorado residents. Our mission is to advance Colorado's health and protect the places we live, work, learn, and play. Our vision is to create a healthy and sustainable Colorado where current and future generations thrive.
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
- 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 Masters degree programs
- Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, and
- A variety of employee resource groups
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 its programs.
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 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
- 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 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.
- 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 population-level 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).
- Collaborate with transportation agencies, law enforcement, healthcare providers, cross-sector coalitions, and community organizations with to identify risk 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 ensures 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.
- Supervise three full-time staff in the Healthy Communities Unit.
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
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
Eight (8) 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 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 equivalent to Eight (8) years.
Preferred Qualifications And Essential Competencies
The preferred experience, competencies and abilities are highly desirable for this position and will be considered in selecting the successful candidate:
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Safe System Approach and evidence-based injury prevention frameworks.
- Experience supervising staff, including leading teams and fostering a positive, results-driven work environment.
- More than five years of experience applying public health community-level strategies to address health, injury prevention, and/or 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 representing an organization in legislative settings, analyzing proposed policies, assessing public health impacts, recommending evidence-based solutions, and providing testimony.
- Experience fostering relationships across sectors, particularly those involving governmental and community partnerships, to advance public health or transportation goals.
- Pursuant to CDPHE policy, a background check is required for all positions at CDPHE.
- This position will require the employee to travel 10% of the time or as needed per job duties.
- To earn credit for your education, you must attach transcripts to be considered.
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. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgment of the department’s action.
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.
- Unofficial transcripts if using to verify educational requirement
- If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214 attached to your colorado.gov/jobs application.
- 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, of up to six candidates, will be invited to schedule an interview with the hiring manager.
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, Dan McKenna, at daniel.mckenna@state.co.us or call 303-692-2060, option 5.
