Full-Time

Essential Functions

• Facilitates evidence-based training related to substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion for students, staff, and community partners.
• Presents information to community groups, churches, teachers/administrators, and parents on substance use prevention and mental health promotion.
• Supports positive student and school relations for the purpose of improving the success of prevention programming in Douglas County.
• Supports program development, implementation, reporting, and evaluation as necessary to meet funding requirements.
• Manages the coordination and subject content matter during the development of meetings, trainings, events, and conferences.
• Tracks and manages the components required for project reporting.
• Supports the Douglas County Youth Empowerment and Prevention (YEP) program and school-based partnerships of YEP.
• Assists in the coordination of Engage Douglas County meetings
• Implements relevant prevention initiatives, including educating communities and youth to reduce the prevalence of substance misuse, as well as raise awareness of suicide prevention and mental health promotion.
• Supports other prevention projects as assigned in partnership with prevention staff.
• Implements educational opportunities targeting parents of youth under the age of 18 in Douglas County.
• Coordinates Red Ribbon Week activities in coordination with YEP and Engage Douglas County.
• Coordinates prevention outreach to local universities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education, Experience, and Licensure

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Training and experience in community organizing, substance misuse prevention, mental health promotion, or human services, preferred.
• Must possess a valid Driver's License, have in force automobile liability insurance coverage, and maintain a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) that meets organization's insurability standard as defined by DCCCA policy. Availability of reliable transportation is required for this position.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Regular and predictable on-site attendance.
• Proven ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, including strengthening and maintaining them over time.
• Collaborate with a variety of audiences (e.g., school board members, school administration, students, etc.) to identify school needs and develop education or assistance programs.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among stakeholders.
• Observes, receives, researches, and otherwise obtains information from relevant sources.
• Develops specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work. Being a newly created position, the ability to establish long-range objectives and identify strategies, experiments, and actions to achieve them is necessary.
• Establishes and maintains appropriate boundaries with the population being served.
• Proficiency with computers and Microsoft suite of products including Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to efficiently operate other office equipment such as telephones, voicemail systems, copy and fax machines, and scanners.
• Adherence to DCCCA Values:
  • We provide education and services based on research and a dedicated commitment to improving lives.
•   We value the people and communities we serve by respecting their experiences and treating them with dignity and respect.
• We encourage leadership at all levels by challenging existing conditions and finding innovative ways to grow and learn.
• We deliver high quality services every day, holding ourselves accountable for our outcomes.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described below are representative of what must be met to satisfy the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to:

• Stand, walk, sit, climb, or balance
• Talk, hear, taste, or smell
• Reach with hands and arms
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Move lift or move up to 50 pounds occasionally
• Vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Travel

• Certain positions will require travel which may include driving personal or company-owned vehicles. Note: Even with a valid driver's license, certain motor vehicle infractions may render individual's ineligible to drive company-owned or personal vehicles for company business. Such infractions may also disqualify employees from continued employment with DCCCA, Inc.

Please note this description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Candidates must successfully complete pre-employment drug screening, background screening, a fingerprint-based records search as required by position or program, and reference checks. Continued employment is contingent upon annual background screening.

DCCCA is a drug-free and smoke-free workplace.

DCCCA, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, gender, disability, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. It is the policy of DCCCA to comply with all federal, state, and local laws concerning the employment of women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans, and to act in accordance with regulations and guidance issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), in every location in which DCCCA has facilities. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training, and any other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

Possible Opportunities for Promotion and/or Growth:

• Lead Prevention Specialist
• Prevention Supervisor
• Community Support Specialist