Remote Senior Technical Assistance Specialist

Summary

Join Altarum's Community Health Practice Area as a Senior Technical Assistance (TA) Specialist with behavioral health expertise to support multiple projects focused on substance use and mental health treatment and recovery.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with at least 10 years of relevant work experience – or – Bachelor’s degree with 15 years of relevant work experience
• Experience providing TA on Federal contracts and/or with grassroots community organizations
• Experience implementing OTP Systems a plus
• Knowledge of peer recovery support services (lived experience a plus)
• Knowledge of Sequential Intercept Model
• Experience in developing TA protocols, materials, resources, and tools
• Experience in knowledge transfer through meeting, training, and workshop design
• 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 systems and services, recovery from behavioral health disorders, organizational and program development, and organizational collaboration and coalition building
• Ability to travel and provide TA on-site 30% of the time

Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of TA to grantees across the country, 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, timeline
• Assess, plan, and provide training and TA related to the development and implementation of OTP systems and services and recovery support services
• Lead, design and deliver training and TA on a variety of content areas associated with OTP systems and services, as well as behavioral health recovery supports for both adults and youth
• Provide consultative expertise and recommendations to clients and grantees as requested
• Lead the development of TA packages, reports, publications, memos, tools, toolkits, online learning courses, webinar presentations, and podcasts
• 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