Planning Evaluator

Type of Requisition:
Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Confidential

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)

Job Family:
Process and Operational Efficiency

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Emergency Management, Emergency Planning, Evaluation Methods, Quantitative Analysis
Certifications:
None
Experience:
3 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Planning Evaluator to support our CDC customer within the Division of Emergency Operations. This position requires on-site work at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

Job Duties

• Support Evaluation Activities across preparedness and response activities including evaluation of emergency responses and exercises, advanced qualitative and quantitative data analysis, development of reports, visualizations, and decision-support products, technical consultation on mixed-methods tools.
• Design evaluation to meet agency responses and exercises requirements.
• Develop evaluation plans and coordinate its implementation.
• Track and measure progress against established objectives and outcomes.
• Identify capability gaps, resource needs, and areas for improvement.
• Ensure evaluation activities align with federal standards and best practices.
• Design and execute data requests, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of analytic products.
• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of response or exercise data.
• Apply statistical learning methods to identify trends, gaps, and outcomes.
• Monitor and assess data quality, integrity, and completeness.
• Collaborate with IT and informatics teams to improve data collection, processing, and other systems.
• Develop clear, concise, and actionable evaluation products for technical and non-technical audiences
• Produce evaluation plans, evaluation reports, dashboards and data visualizations, executive summaries and briefings, and one-pagers.
• Track, develop, and disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations.
• Communicate findings to leadership, stakeholders, and partner organizations.
• Maintain documentation of evaluation methodologies, data sources, and analytic processes.
• Incorporate lessons learned into future evaluations and response processes.
• Stay current with advancements in data science, machine learning, and public health analytics.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Must have experience in emergency management / emergency management evaluation, and/or relevant experience in public health as described below.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in program evaluation or public health analytics, statistical software (e.g. R-Python, MAXQDA, NviVo or similar), data visualization tools, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of evaluation methods and practices, data analysis and interpretation, translating data into actionable recommendations, customizing communication products for a variety of audiences, including executive leadership, and data management and data governance principles.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Planner).
• Possess strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to support high-tempo emergency response environments.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent data requests and deadlines.
• Flexibility to support surge activities during public health emergencies.
• Telework may be allowed, occasionally, if approved by technical monitor and COR.

CLEARANCE: Must be a US Person (Green Card Holder/US Permanent Resident Alien, Refugee, Asylee, US Citizen) and be able to obtain a NACI Public Trust.

The likely salary range for this position is $70,550 - $95,450. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA GA Atlanta

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.