Altarum’s Community Health Practice Area is seeking a
Senior Technical Assistance (TA) Specialist with behavioral health (BH) expertise to support multiple projects focused on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and peer recovery support services.In this mission driven role, you will lead a range of TA activities, including virtual trainings and TA events, development of TA resources and products, TA site visits, and individual TA to providers. This position requires working effectively with State clients, management, contractors, and consultants.
You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge of behavioral health services to generate insights that inform equitable public health and health services solutions. During your career at Altarum, you will work on many projects and your specific tasks and responsibilities will vary across projects, with the potential for career advancement.
Responsibilities
- Lead the provision of training and TA to SUD treatment and recovery service providers across Michigan, both virtually and on-site as needed
- Provide input to inform decisions regarding TA requests and processes, including determining scope of work, necessary resources, TA modality, and timeline
- Assess, plan, and provide training and TA related to the development and implementation of evidence-based practices such as recovery incentives at the provider-level
- Lead, design and deliver training and TA on a variety of content areas associated with the peer recovery support services workforce for adults and youth
- Provide consultative expertise and recommendations to clients and grantees as requested
- Lead the development of TA packages, reports, memos, tools, toolkits, online learning courses, and webinar presentations
- Recruit and collaborate with expert consultants to provide training and TA on a variety of topics
- Work collaboratively with other Altarum staff on projects, and collaboratively with other external TA providers
- Work directly with clients to ensure that tasks are executed successfully and with high-quality
- Contribute to federal, state, and philanthropic proposal efforts, as needed
Qualifications
- Master’s degree (social work, counselor, public health, social sciences, or related degree) with a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience with SUD and peer recovery support services in a clinical setting
- Experience providing TA on State contracts and/or with grassroots community organizations
- Experience participating in practice quality improvement processes using Plan, Do, Study, Act or other methods
- Experience in developing TA protocols, materials, resources, and tools
- Experience in knowledge transfer through meeting, training, and workshop design
- Experience in developing technological media learning strategies
- Desire to integrate research, technical, analytical, and consulting skills to serve the public good and improve human health
- Excellent critical and analytical thinking, willingness to step into new roles, strong communication and facilitation skills, team focused mentality, and a commitment to continuously learning and improving
- Knowledge and expertise in SUD treatment, recovery from behavioral health disorders, organizational and program development, and organizational collaboration and coalition building
- Ability to travel and provide TA on-site, as needed
Logistical Requirements
- This position will be located in Michigan. If you are local to our office in Novi, MI, this role will be hybrid (one day per week in the office on Wednesdays).
- At this time, we will only accept candidates who are presently eligible to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship
- Our organization requires that all work, for the duration of your employment, must be completed in the continental U.S. unless required by contract
ABOUT ALTARUM:
Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. We work primarily on behalf of federal and state governments to design and implement solutions that achieve measurable results. We combine our expertise in public health and health care delivery with technology development and implementation, practice transformation, training and technical assistance, quality improvement, data analytics, and applied research and evaluation.
Our innovative solutions and proven processes lead to better value and health for all. In addition to the meaningful and challenging work, Altarum offers an outstanding benefits program that includes paid time off, tuition reimbursement, 401k (3% employer contribution plus opportunity for gainsharing), a flexible work environment, and much more. We invite you to explore exciting and rewarding career opportunities with us. Altarum provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.Apply for this job
