Indigenous Evaluation SME
Company: PCI Professional Services LLC
Role summary
Indigenous Evaluation SME is a role at PCI Professional Services LLC in Atlanta, Georgia, United States (on-site). Posted 2026-09-01. Experience level: 10+.
- Job title
- Indigenous Evaluation SME
- Company
- PCI Professional Services LLC
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 10+
- Date posted
- 2026-09-01
Here's a fantastic opportunity to use your deep understanding of Indigenous communities to shape evaluation practices. This role offers the chance to make a real impact while working with a supportive team.
Job description
Indigenous Evaluation SME – CDC
Position Status: Contingent upon contract award.
Position Summary
Provide senior leadership for culturally grounded evaluation and engagement involving Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities, with full recognition of Tribal sovereignty and data-governance rights. This role is central to DNPAO’s Healthy Tribes portfolio and Tasks 6, 7, and 15. The SME will ensure that evaluation and engagement activities recognize Tribal sovereignty and data-governance rights, follow applicable Tribal approval processes, apply community-based participatory principles, and use culturally grounded methods for rural and urban Tribal contexts. The role will support trusted relationships, recipient evaluation advisory groups, culturally appropriate instruments, interpretation, dissemination, and practice-based evidence.
Key Responsibilities
Guide culturally grounded evaluation planning, methods, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination.
Advise on Tribal sovereignty, informed consent, governance approvals, data ownership, permitted use, and sharing.
Apply community-based participatory principles and engage Tribal communities throughout the work.
Develop or review culturally appropriate frameworks, indicators, instruments, protocols, and reports.
Facilitate recipient advisory groups, interviews, discussions, communities of practice, and site visits.
Mentor staff and support Tribal recipients in generating and communicating practice-based evidence.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Master's degree.
Experience: At least 8 years of directly relevant experience working with Tribal Nations, Alaska Native villages, Tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, or Indigenous communities, including substantial responsibility for culturally grounded evaluation, community engagement, or data governance. Demonstrated knowledge of Tribal sovereignty, community-based participatory approaches, Tribal review processes, and respectful dissemination is required.
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
Public service orientation; technical credibility; cultural responsiveness; collaboration; clear communication; accountability; adaptability; quality focus; sound judgment; and the ability to work effectively with CDC staff, recipients, partners, subcontractors, and subject matter experts.
PCI Federal Services (PCIFS) and its subsidiaries is an equal-opportunity employer. PCIFS does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.
Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates
in accordance with applicable federal law.
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