Health Promotion Opioid Program Coordinator

Essential Functions

• Cook up and coordinate opioid-related discussions through the Opioid Prevention Team and community outreach, leading activities to increase collaboration and communication across key stakeholders.
• Monitor, evaluate, and update the county’s Opioid Strategic Plan, including performance measures and goals of prevention activities.
• Manage Pender County’s Opioid Settlement funding, including planning, reporting, and tracking budgets, and ensuring requirements are met.
• Affirm strategies to effectively engage individuals with lived experience as active prevention team members.
• Increase community awareness of this work through the execution of a communications strategy that incorporates website, social media, participation in community outreach events and public presentations including to the board of elected officials.
• Create and maintain an Opioid Prevention Data Dashboard for the county that includes overdose data and partnership outcomes.
• Maintain regular communication with key stakeholders.
• Research, identify and oversee implementation of evidence-based overdose prevention and harm reduction strategies.
• Support collaborative efforts to increase access to treatment.
• Engage with state and federally funded programs and resources to align and strengthen the county’s overdose response strategies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education & Experience

• Strong understanding of opioid overdose prevention and treatment strategies, including harm reduction.
• Skilled in strategic planning and systems thinking.
• Skilled in partnership and coalition building.
• Knowledge and skill in data analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge of budget management.
• Knowledge of program evaluation processes.
• Knowledge of computers and computer software.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to set priorities and manage timelines.
• Ability to adapt to change.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with county officials, peers, and general public.

Physical Requirements

• Good physical health and stamina is needed.
• Some bending, lifting, stooping, and driving are required.

Benefits

Pender County offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including:

• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, optional life and disability insurance plans, flexible spending account, retirement program, 401(k) program, deferred compensation program, credit union membership and an employee assistance program.

  For more information on Pender County Benefits, please view the Benefits Pender County Benefits Overview.