Implementation / Translation Scientist SME

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Guide selection and application of implementation-science frameworks appropriate to program context and goals.
• Assess barriers, facilitators, readiness, adaptation, fidelity, sustainability, scale-up, and spread.
• Develop implementation strategies, logic models, driver diagrams, planning tools, and fidelity instruments.
• Conduct rapid evidence reviews and translate findings for practitioner audiences.
• Deliver training, coaching, mentorship, communities of practice, and strategic planning support.
• Develop case studies, briefs, presentations, publications, and implementation lessons learned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree.
• Experience: At least 8 years of experience in implementation science, dissemination and implementation research, evidence translation, or a closely related field, including practical application of established frameworks, mixed methods, implementation strategies, fidelity, adaptation, sustainability, and scale-up. Experience applying these approaches in nutrition, physical activity, obesity prevention, chronic disease, community, or public health settings is strongly 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