Alcohol Prevention Project Coordinator
Position Summary
We are seeking a Project Coordinator to support our client to achieve its mission. This person will support the training and technical assistance activities to help support converting alcohol policy research into practice. Only candidates with previous demonstrated ALCOHOL PREVENTION PROGRAM experience will be contacted.
The Project Coordinator will be responsible for:
- Managing all training and TA requests.
- Maintaining the online resource hub.
- Organizing a set of virtual interactive dialogues.
- Coordinating a research roundtable and helping with regular logistical and organizational support.
- We are looking for an individual with experience and skills related to project coordination.
- Public health or macro social work, racial equity and social justice, or another relevant field.
- Coordinate groups from across the country, through strong written and oral communication.
- This position requires excellent communication, problem solving, and active listening skills; initiative, creativity, and adaptability; the ability to work independently and effectively in groups; strong relationship building skills; and an understanding of the social determinants of health and a commitment to racial and health equity.
Externally, this position is expected to work at the local, state, and national levels to help
advance policy change, evidence-based prevention strategies, and structural reform that reduces excessive alcohol use and protects the public from alcohol-related harms.
Essential Duties/Functions
- Schedules, participation in, documents and follow up on meetings.
- Manages all training and technical assistance requests, including the coordination
- of trainers and facilitation of planning meetings.
- Helps create and maintain online resource hub, manages website content, and responds to resource requests.
- Plans and coordinates a set of virtual interactive dialogues on alcohol policy topics to members and stakeholders.
- Coordinates the activities of a research roundtable, including inviting and coordinating a meeting of alcohol policy researchers and practitioners, assisting with material development in advance of the meeting, and managing technological coordination of the meeting.
- Maintains effective and professional working relationships with members, staff, and partners to assist in developing short and long-term goals of respective projects.
- Creates and maintains social media presence and maintains website.
- Promotes program and organizational sustainability.
- Stays current in public health alcohol policy issues to establish and maintain credibility across various disciplinary professions.
- Demonstrates leadership in broad outreach to diverse communities; develops and nurtures stakeholder partnerships to enhance the capacity of the program and its members to provide resources to a broad and diverse base of stakeholders.
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, public policy, political science, communications or a related field or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of three years’ experience in community organizing/working with coalitions, public health programming and/or advocacy, community-based programs, policy analysis/implementation, or grants management.
- Ability to work with diverse communities, including with adults and youth of different races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, and experiences; ability to offer culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing health equity.
- An understanding of the social determinants of health and a commitment to social justice, racial and health equity; an understanding of how racism is a public health issue.
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team, both in-person and virtually, and take personal initiative.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Experience producing high-quality analysis of research, policies, and regulations as well as lay-person education resources in multiple formats.
- Demonstrated oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven track record in grant coordination, meeting grant requirements, and completing grant reports.
- Experience using social media, websites, and online newsletter platforms.
- Experience and comfortability speaking publicly, on the phone, and facilitating groups of people.
- Demonstrated ability to function well under pressure and use/maintain discretion,
- integrity, fair mindedness, and professionalism with a variety of personality types and philosophies.
- Strong familiarity with public health alcohol policy, partnership building or grant management.
- Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple, complex projects in varying stages of development and bring them to scale under time constraints.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Expected hours: 30 – 40 per week
Medical specialties:
- Addiction Medicine
- Public Health
Schedule:
Work Location: Remote