[Hiring] Manager, Drug User Health @NASTAD

Role Description

The Manager, Drug User Health, plays a vital role in expanding the organization’s capacity to address the impacts of the intersecting crises of drug use, HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis in community and public health settings, particularly within state and local health departments and Syringe Services Programs (SSPs).

This role will primarily work on identifying, interpreting, and communicating information about the illicit drug supply to inform overdose prevention and response strategies and public health communications across the country.

Essential Duties:

• Provide TA and capacity-building to state and local health department and community-based programs, including consultation, training, and the development and delivery of peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
• Provide regular coaching, responsive and innovative messaging, mentoring, networking, and technical assistance to our grantees.
• Collect and present grantee program data and evaluate the impact of grants, with assistance from Senior Managers and evaluation partners.
• Manage project-related files by ensuring that necessary materials are current and properly filed.
• Ensure that the team’s intranet page, customer relationship management systems, and project management tools are always up to date.
• Work across NASTAD to identify and leverage existing organizational partnerships for Drug User Health programming.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams to coordinate TA efforts across states and regions.
• Provide project management expertise on a variety of workstreams, including managing project management software.
• Develop, monitor, and review technical assistance resources that meet the needs of diverse stakeholders.
• Represent NASTAD at meetings, briefings, and consultations related to state health departments and community-based HIV, hepatitis, and drug user health programs.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of harm reduction frameworks, drug user health, behavioral health, and integrated systems of health service delivery.
• The ability to identify opportunities for training or skill-building with constituents and the ability to design and execute training and/or resources that address these needs.
• Collaboration skills.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that demonstrates the candidate’s ability to perform the position’s duties.
• At least 6 years of progressively responsible and related work experience.
• Experience designing and/or executing training and skill-building activities.

Requirements

• Familiarity with federal overdose prevention and response funding and policy landscapes and public health communications strategies is strongly preferred.
• Experience in training, facilitation, and/or product creation for a variety of audiences related to overdose prevention and response—including naloxone access, MOUD provision as overdose prevention, post-overdose response strategies, or related topics.

Benefits

• Full-time, 40 hours/week role.
• Willing to travel as needed, up to 30%.
• Remote work is possible.

Company Description

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan, non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health systems and leveraging community partnerships.

NASTAD represents public health officials in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, seven local jurisdictions, and the U.S. Pacific Island jurisdictions.