Altarum is hiring a
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, crisis services, opioid treatment, and peer recovery support services.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with 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
• Knowledge of behavioral health crisis systems
• Experience implementing OTP Systems a plus
• 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 focus, and a commitment to continuously learning and improving
• Knowledge and expertise in SUD systems and services, recovery from behavioral health disorders, organization and program development, and organizational collaboration and coalition building
• Ability to travel and provide TA on-site up to 25% 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 behavioral health crisis systems
• 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