Opioid Response Coordinator

The Opioid Response Coordinator provides leadership, planning, management, and coordination of the City's response to the Opioid Crisis. Position will serve as the City’s primary liaison to relevant stakeholders. Position will serve as liaison to the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority (OAA) including overseeing individual and regional applications to the Opioid Abatement Authority and ensuring effective monitoring and compliance of all activities related to the national opioid settlements and Opioid Abatement Authority.

• Coordinate, administer, and/or supervise all aspects of the City's response to the opioid crisis, in collaboration with the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Human Services.
• Research, examine, prepare, and revise guidance and recommendations to City leaders and staff on new, best practice approaches.
• Work with City’s senior leadership team and key stakeholders to develop a comprehensive plan to respond to the opioid crisis.

• Strengthen, support, and offer leadership/co-leadership to the Opioid Task Force currently led by the Richmond Henrico Health District.
• Provide intra and inter agency coordination (Health and Human Services, Fire/EMS, Police, Emergency Management, Corrections, State's Attorney, Sheriff's, Public Schools, Economic and Workforce Development, etc.) of Richmond’s opioid response and ensure coordination across agencies to avoid redundancy and identify gaps in services to identify underutilized services or potential barriers to service for residents and families at risk of opioid use disorder and opioid overdose.
• Serve on a variety of Regional, State and Federal work groups and projects.
• Prepare grant applications for Federal, State and/or private funding sources.
• Research, prepare, and manage grant proposals, reports, and presentations.
• Ensure tasks and projects adhere to local, state, and federal standards and requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective and efficient systems to monitor the myriad funding streams addressing the opioid crisis.
• Serve as liaison to Opioid Abatement Authority including overseeing individual and regional applications to the OAA.
• Ensure effective monitoring and compliance of all activities related to the National Opioid Settlement and Opioid Abatement Authority.

KNOWLEDGE:
The ideal candidate should have thorough knowledge and understanding of: the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders; public addiction recovery system and regulatory requirements; knowledge of the principles and practices of public administration and local government; local addiction recovery and social service agencies; program evaluation processes; Drug and alcohol addiction laws and regulations; research methods and sources; HIPAA law and regulations including privacy rules and standards; maintain current working knowledge of changing addiction recovery services field. 

ABILITIES: 
The ideal candidate should have ability to: deliver clear and effective oral presentations to City leaders, staff and the public; Ability to write detailed, accurate reports, grants, and other documents requiring the exercise of sound judgment and analysis; Skilled in meeting facilitation and coordination; ability to complete short and long range objectives without close supervision; Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, supervisor, contract agency representatives, officials, general public and other job contacts. Exhibit flexibility in work schedule and job assignments; Ability to use word processing and presentation software to prepare documents, and to use spreadsheet and statistical analysis software packages to store, manipulate, analyze and present data.

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working in substance use disorder treatment or support, including lived/shared experience with opioid-use disorders.
• Experience collaborating with other agencies and coordinating services.
• Policy development and implementation.
• Experience in project management.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in human services, social work, business administration, or a related field.
• Four years' experience in human services or a directly related field, including substantial experience presenting information or facilitating workshops to diverse groups of individuals.
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond; exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation; inadequate lighting; intense noise; and environmental hazards such as disruptive people, imminent danger, and a threatening environment. 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. The essential duties of this classification may require the ability to regularly talk; frequently finger, hear, see, and perform repetitive motions; and occasionally climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, feel, and grasp. The working conditions may include environmental hazards. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be sedentary, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

* Internal use:  HR Generalist to review.

Salary : $96,380 - $160,952