Position Title:
Project Director for Adult Technical Assistance
Position summary
The project director is responsible for ensuring that activities are carried out according to established specifications, schedules, and budgets; coordinates interdepartmental functions to minimize delays; meets with program team members regularly to review program status and plan future. The Project Director is responsible for providing follow-up training and technical assistance to adult drug treatment courts.
Specialized Duties:
- Assist a select number of BJA grantees with meeting the goals of their grants.
- Conduct virtual interviews with a select number of BJA grantees.
- Conduct onsite technical assistance and training with a select number of BJA grantees.
- Serve as a coach for treatment courts to assist them with implementing best practices in their program.
- Develop work plans and time task plans with BJA grantees.
- Responsible for identifying trends with assigned teams.
- Participate in curriculum development meetings.
- Help develop training and technical assistance materials.
- Responsible for managing consultants and budgets for assigned projects.
- Provide training and TA for non-grantees.
- Create and manage a Program Proposal, Budget Narrative, and Time Task Plan.
- Establish a yearly time task plan for each task as outlined in the cooperative agreement.
- Responsible for managing deadlines for finalizing each aspect of all project tasks.
- Facilitate onsite and virtual training on drug treatment court research and best practices.
- Travel to select onsite training programs in connection with this project.
General Duties:
- Select and manage staff related to this project.
- Select, assign and manage consultants (i.e., guest speakers and facilitators) related to this project.
- Review technical assistance plans and schedule training opportunities for grantees.
- Assign a staff or consultant to provide training in response to the technical assistance plan.
- Provide onsite or virtual training.
- Schedule training based upon grantees' pressing needs to include operational tune-ups, incentives, and sanctions or specific target sessions from other BJA-approved NADCP curriculum.
- Complete training reports and forward to BJA, assigned faculty, and the jurisdiction within given timeframes
- Co-manage NDCI technical assistance staff
- Co-manage consultants providing training on behalf of NADCP
- Responsible for managing reimbursements of all project expenses.
- Produces final report at the end of the year about the overall effect of the training and technical assistance.
Onsite Training Post Training Duties:
- Contact select jurisdictions via telephone/email within seven business days of teams selected to participate in training to set up an educational conference call with the team.
- During the initial telephone call, explain the training process, the coaching process, and establish timelines for receiving paperwork.
- Ensure that each team coach/facilitator is provided contact information and any paperwork on the jurisdiction to prepare them for the training event before each training.
- Upon completion of the training, the project director will ensure that each team receives a survey to determine the outcome of the onsite training.
- Review all evaluation reports for accuracy and submit to division director and chief of training and research within 30 days of training for approval.
Skills:
- Strong and demonstrated project management skills
- Excellent writing skills, presentation and training skills.
- Understanding interdepartmental functions is essential to ensure that program schedules and objectives are met.
- Originality and initiative are important as well as the ability to work under unusual or extreme pressures.
- Superior supervision, management, public speaking, and administration skills
- Capable of handling multiple priorities
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Attributes:
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally approximately 50% of the time.
- Energetic, self-motivated, detail-oriented person
- Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation or develop creative ways to solve a
