Wolcott Citizens Against Substance Abuse
Job Title: Project Director for Drug Free Communities Grant
Responsibilities (may include but not limited to the following):
· Participate in and assist in facilitation of local Coalition meetings
· Build relationships with representatives and members from all twelve community sectors
· Manage project budget and produce budget reports to the funder
· Oversees program implementation by all sector members to ensure coordination and collaboration and completion of the coalition action plan
· Oversee the project evaluator and ensure regular evaluation feedback is utilized to adjust and refine coalition activities to maximize outcomes
· Build relationships with representatives and members from all twelve community sectors
· Facilitate collaboration between sector members and the Coalition to accomplish the Coalition strategic plan
· Weave the five steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework – Assessment, Capacity Building, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation – into all Coalition and sector member prevention activities. Ensures ongoing assessment and capacity building activities as well as periodic plan reviews. Monitors and supports all Coalition activity implementation and works closely with the project evaluator to ensure evaluation activities and feedback to the Coalition
· Responsible for all data collection and reporting
· Develops training materials
· Provides presentations to the Coalition and the general public on issues related to youth substance abuse prevention.
· Attend trainings, workshops, statewide and national conferences relevant to position
Supervision:
The Project Director position is supervised by the Coalition Chairperson and by the fiduciary agent
Qualifications and Experience:
- Must work easily with many types of people in various positions, including community leaders.
- Experience in networking, building consensus, and accepting direction from various diverse groups, while assisting to direct a coalition in accomplishing its mission.
- Ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.
- Knowledge of grant funding policies and procedures and applicable local, state, federal regulations
- Experience in and knowledge of evidence-based substance abuse prevention practices, community approaches to prevention, and coordinating diverse groups in accomplishing a unified plan of action.
- Experience in working with the Drug Free Communities Grant preferred but not required.
- Skill in organizing resources and establishing priorities
- Minimum Master’s Degree in related field with 2 years’ experience in health related field
Travel:
Travel to at least two national conferences required, all travel, lodging & food expenses are paid by the coalition. Travel within the town to meet with our twelve sector partners. Occasional in-state workshops and conferences may also be required.
Job Type:
Part-time (30 hours per week) with potential for Full-time. Some evenings and weekends (Minimum of 2 evenings per month)
Salary:$45,000 - $52,000
Closing date: September 30, 2017
Please email cover letter and resume to: katie812@sbcglobal.net
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