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Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP), the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) provides training and technical assistance to support the efforts of SAMHSA prevention grantees—including states and their communities, jurisdictions, and federally-recognized tribes and tribal entities—to prevent and reduce substance abuse and related behavioral health problems.
The CAPT has an opening for a Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Associate, with another (second) T/TA Associate position opening later this week. The individuals in these positions will work 100% on CAPT Southeast services—that is, services designed to meet the foundational and advanced learning needs of the prevention workforce in the Southeast region including serving 10 states and 2 jurisdictions: Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Washington DC, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. These services are delivered both face to face and virtually (webinars, peer-sharing calls, and other online channels) and are designed to promote participant engagement and interaction. These positions report to the Southeast Resource Team (RT) Coordinator, must live in the Southeast service area, and work preferably out of EDC’s Washington DC office.
The T/TA Associate, will be responsible for providing direct T/TA services to individual SAMHSA substance abuse prevention grantees: coordinating, designing, and delivering T/TA; developing and revising training materials and products; and preparing and delivering presentations. Specifically, the T/TA Associate will be expected to:
• Identify the T/TA needs of SAMHSA substance abuse prevention grantees via a service-planning process and develop a plan for how best to meet those needs.
• Design, plan, and deliver T/TA services to assigned grantee clients.
• Collaborate with other members of the Southeast RT in the development of materials to support regional T/TA services, and participate in the delivery of regional services.
• Collaborate with other members of the Southeast RT, including epidemiologists, evaluators, and subject matter experts, to develop the most useful and effective services and resources for grantees.
• Draw on the expertise of other CAPT colleagues to identify specific services for specific groups of grantees
• Coordinate administrative and logistical tasks associated with planning and providing services to grantees
• Monitor and report services provided, and meet other reporting requirements
• Fulfill other duties, as assigned.
To fulfill these responsibilities, the T/TA Associate should have the following skills:
• Be an excellent relationship builder. Whether with clients or within the team, qualified candidates must be able to work collaboratively and build trust and respect, both in-person and virtually, knowing that whatever the medium, excellent rapport is the basis for an effective working relationship.
• Be a strategic thinker who understands the SPF and how it can be applied at both the state and community levels. Qualified candidates must understand the five steps of the SPF and two guiding principles—concepts of assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, evaluation, cultural competence, and sustainability—and how to put them into practice. S/he must also recognize the importance of fidelity to the SPF process.
• Enjoy thinking about innovative ways of translating research into practice and be committed to staying current on substance abuse prevention best practices and research.
• Have strong attention to detail while still able to see the forest through the trees.
• Qualified candidates must be flexible and creative while also able to work within the confines set out by our funder.
• Know how to help people succeed. Qualified candidates must value diversity—diverse opinions, perspectives, and experience—and draw on this value to identify the best ways to help clients be successful—whoever they are and whatever they are striving to do.
Qualifications: Qualified candidates must have experience in the design, delivery, and coordination of both training and technical assistance for both state- and community-level prevention practitioners. Experience supporting the implementation of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is highly desirable. Specifically, candidates must have:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; Master’s degree preferred
• At least 3-5 years of experience working in the substance abuse prevention field (with Master’s degree; 5-8 years of experience required with Bachelor’s Degree)
• Experience implementing SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (preferred)
• Experience providing trainings to community- and state- level decision makers
• Experience using a range of computer applications, instructional design, adult learning principles, and conducting Internet search
• Excellent writing skills
The preferred candidate should also:
• Be comfortable with technology and using multimedia.
• Be able to trouble-shoot and are organized.
• Be able to work independently and as a part of a team, and can do so in-person and virtually.
Compensation: Commensurate with experience and other qualifications.
To Apply:
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