Training Coordinator

About the role

The Training Coordinator develops resources and provides training and technical assistance to BHSB’s Bmore POWER harm reduction outreach team and to other organizations and individuals as required by the funding which supports this role. This includes facilitating trainings and meetings, offering consultations with staff on how to best support people who use drugs, and coordinating logistics of the work. Logistics include both administrative and programmatic tasks related to the development, planning, scheduling, communications, delivery, evaluation, and reporting of these activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide customized training and support to outreach team members and staff at other organizations, as required.
• Support continued research and implementation of best practices.
• Facilitate live training sessions in-person and virtually for outreach team members and staff at other organizations, as required.
• Facilitate live in-person and online meetings.
• Develop training curricula and other resources for in-person and online dissemination to outreach team members at BHSB and staff at other organizations, as required, focused on the following topics related to performing harm reduction outreach work and preparation to engage in formal, licit work at organizations that serve people who use drugs:
• principles of harm reduction
• harm reduction interventions
• strategies to advance harm reduction approaches in outreach work
• technical skills such as wound care practices, drug checking tools, overdose prevention and response, and safer injection
• working as part of a team
• working to achieve shared goals
• workplace communication kills
• conflict resolution and de-escalation
• motivation interviewing
• trauma-informed care
• utilizing workplace technologies
• Coordinate logistics for provision of training and training consultation, both in-person and virtual, live or recorded.
• Provide logistical support to outreach team and other organizations’ leadership for training- and training consultation-related activities.
• Develop harm reduction training informational and promotional materials.
• Maintain an online presence for BHSB’s harm reduction training work.
• Participate in relevant internal and external meetings and work groups as needed.
• Support networking and communication among outreach team members and outreach team leadership at BHSB and at other organizations.
• Develop strong working relationships with staff at the Baltimore City Health Department and the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office of Overdose Response to understand harm reduction outreach team needs and participate in City-wide collaborative efforts to advance evidence-based strategies to address the overdose crisis.
• Work effectively with stakeholders, people who use drugs, outreach team members, and other BHSB colleagues.
• Develop professional relationships with harm reduction professionals in Baltimore, in Maryland, in the mid-Atlantic region, and nationwide.
• Engage in honest dialogue and navigate conflict in day-to-day interactions.
• Operate from a place of integrity and assume an ethical obligation to protect the security and confidentiality of all PHI in accordance with BHSB’s policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in public health-related discipline (e.g., public health, social work, counseling/psychology, human services, public administration, or allied health field) or an education-related discipline, OR three additional years of professional experience based on the “Experience” criteria below may substitute for a bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of two years of experience working in harm reduction (or allied field), capacity-building, training facilitation, advocacy, or prevention-oriented public health programs.
• Direct experience with: Drug use, sex work, homelessness; and/or People who use drugs, sex workers, people experiencing homelessness; and/or Working or living within communities impacted by drug use.
• Knowledge of harm reduction as a philosophy and service approach for working with and developing programming to serve people who use drugs.
• Proven skill in event planning and coordination.
• Proven skill in presentation and teaching.
• Proven skill in using current technology (computers, internet, and applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and video conferencing).
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and orally.
• Ability to consistently center harm reduction principles and the voices of people who use drugs.
• Proven ability to prioritize effectively, work independently, manage multiple responsibilities, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to interact in a hybrid/virtual environment.
• Proficient using current technology (computers, internet, and applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and video conferencing).

Skills

• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and orally.
• Ability to consistently center harm reduction principles and the voices of people who use drugs.
• Proven ability to prioritize effectively, work independently, manage multiple responsibilities, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to interact in a hybrid/virtual environment.
• Proficient using current technology (computers, internet, and applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and video conferencing).

Benefits

This position does not offer benefits.

Pay

$72,672 annually

Schedule

Hybrid work environment in Baltimore, MD