Summary: Responsible for the administration, direction, and expansion of the Injury, Suicide and Violence Prevention (ISVP) Portfolio, which includes proactively supporting state and territorial health officials and their agencies on public health areas including injury prevention, suicide prevention, violence prevention, adverse childhood experience prevention, mental health promotion, as well as the intersection of these issues and health equity. In close coordination with the Vice President for Social and Behavioral Health, leads and manages the Behavioral Health States and Territories team and the Public and Behavioral Health Integration team and their projects. Oversees the relevant policy and programmatic activities between ASTHO and the CDC Division of Injury Prevention, the CDC Division of Violence Prevention, SAMHSA, and others.

Location: Remote

Anticipated salary: $115,000 Extended experience: up to $142,000 if experience exceeds expectations

Principal Functions:

• Provides day-to-day leadership, management, and oversight of the Injury, Suicide, and Violence Prevention portfolio budgets and initiatives, including the work that falls under the Behavioral Health States and Territories and the Public and Behavioral Health Integration teams.

• Collaborates internally with ASTHO leadership and staff to expand the impact and quality of programs.

• Works closely with the Vice President for Social and Behavioral Health in organizational strategy development, planning, and implementation; stakeholder engagement; and funding growth strategy.

• Represents ASTHO in various external committees, workgroups, conferences, summits, and advisory bodies related to the Injury, Suicide, and Violence Prevention Portfolio and social and behavioral health subject matter areas.

• Provides relevant assistance to the ASTHO supported committees and task forces, including the ASTHO Community Health and Prevention Policy Committee.

• Anticipates changing policy and program issues and conveys their potential impact to ASTHO senior management, including maintaining routine situational awareness of emerging issues or trends of relevance and importance to the member base.

• Seeks new and diversified funding and guides and participates in developing proposals to support ASTHO’s members in a range of social and behavioral health areas.

• Proactively builds, cultivates trust, and strengthens stakeholder relationships to promote health equity work within the social and behavioral health portfolio to support membership and ASTHO as an organization.

• Conceptualizes, develops, and implements collaborative projects or cross-cutting policies and programmatic issues with other ASTHO teams and functional areas.

• Fosters collaborative relationships with ASTHO coworkers and representatives from other stakeholders and organizations.

• Plans project activities and evaluation, including forecasting and translating into deliverables member and grantor needs and articulating project goals, objectives, and intended outcomes.

• Oversees, mentors, evaluates, and supports direct reports to fulfill their positions including, but not limited to:

• Managing existing projects within their portfolio.

• Developing new project initiatives in anticipation or response to member needs or related to policy committee priority areas.

• Developing and completing materials meeting ASTHO review and quality requirements.

• Team development, leadership, organizational culture, and ASTHO values.

• Tracks and analyzes relevant national and state public health policy, federal legislation, and research.

• Writes, edits, and oversees project deliverables including briefs, blogs, reports, and newsletter stories.

• In concert with the ASTHO events team, oversees activities associated with event (meetings, webcasts, etc.) planning.

• Serves as a resource and responds to members, affiliates, and alumni technical assistance requests on issues related to substance abuse and overdose prevention.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, science, public administration, social work or comparable degree; master’s degree preferred.

• A minimum of 7 years relevant work experience in public health or related field. This must include some experience in injury prevention, suicide prevention, violence prevention or behavioral health from a public health perspective.

• Strong working knowledge of public health strategies to address and best practice programmatic and policy strategies to reduce injury, suicide violence, and overdose, including strategies to address upstream factors that influence multiple health outcomes.

• Supervisory and leadership experience, including leading diverse staff teams.

• Public health experience at local, state, and/or federal/national level is highly desirable.

• Experience with state health agencies and/or national associations and awareness of public health policy, program planning, and implementation from a state perspective is desirable.

• Proficient in writing, managing, and evaluating performance with federal grants/cooperative agreements or foundation grants

• Experience tracking and analyzing related project issues and legislation at the federal and state levels.

• Outstanding interpersonal, written, oral communication, and public speaking skills.

• Ability to develop and maintain diverse collaborative networks.

• Ability to manage and develop multiple projects independently and in a team environment, and complete assigned tasks in a timely manner.

• Ability to integrate related policy and programmatic issues across categorically funded programs.

• Ability to anticipate states’ emerging issues and proactively identify policy and programmatic solutions.

• Ability to develop accountability measures to analyze progress, evaluate outcomes, illustrate impact, and sustain success.

• Ability to travel occasionally.

  
  

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