Project Director - ISAP

This position serves as Project Director within theIntegrated Substance Abuse Programs Training Center and functions as a coretrainer for both internal and external training events. The role includessupervising staff and overseeing financial transactions, including programbudgets and expenditure control.

The Project Director will develop and implement strategiesfor a training program that meets internal needs while remaining marketable tocommunity agencies and substance use disorder professionals. Additionally, thisposition leads the development of high-quality training curricula of varyinglengths and complexity, designed for presentation to the broader community ontopics related to substance use disorder treatment, drug trends at the state,national, and international levels, and the treatment implications of theseevolving trends.

Annual Salary Range: $83,624.40 - 127,263.60

Required:

• Knowledge of and familiaritywith the literature on substance use disorders.
• Demonstrated ability toorganize large-scale meetings with multiple speakers and large audiences.
• Skill in negotiating contractswith hotels and other agencies to achieve optimal results. (A/B)
• Knowledge of promotional andadvertising activities that attract audiences to continuing educationconferences.
• Ability to work with multipletasks and conflicting priorities to achieve objectives on time with accurateresults.
• Demonstrated ability to writecomplex research papers, grant reports, and white papers that use correctsyntax and grammar, and clearly represent research or grant findings.
• Skill in supervising staff todetermine and clearly express performance expectations.
• Ability to evaluate staffperformance on a regular/on-going basis. Skill in preparing annual performanceappraisals that accurately reflect staff progress toward stated goals.
• Skill in delegating tasks tosubordinate staff, including appropriate instruction and subsequentfollow-through to ensure that tasks are completed within stated time frame andanticipated results.
• Excellent communication skillsto work with community agencies, speakers, conference/meeting participants, andhealth care professionals to achieve stated goals and objectives.
• Excellent presentation skillssufficient to represent the University at professional meetings and workgroups.
• Meeting organization skills toensure that all details including registration, materials, technology, hotel orsite interface result in a high level of satisfaction from participants andspeakers.
• Knowledge of Universitytravel, reimbursement, and procurement requirements sufficient to carry outlogistical requirements of the conferences.
• Knowledge of ContinuingEducation requirements for professional organizations and/or licensing boardssufficient to ensure that all specifications including reporting criteria aremet and satisfied.
• Ability to prepare, monitorand report program budgets.
• Knowledge of University Salesand Service and Foundation accounting sufficient to ensure that receipts andexpenditures are deposited and reported accurately. Knowledge of project codingwithin the University system and skill in insuring that expenditures arecredited to the proper conference/event.
• Skill in identifying donoropportunities to support conference and event functions.
• Ability to prepare cogent andprofessional presentations. Skill in using PowerPoint for slide presentations.
• Meeting management skills toconduct focused and objective driven meetings.
• Knowledge of web developmentsufficient to instruct webmaster to produce clear and user-friendly webannouncements and registration materials for conferences and events.
• Ability to effectively teachcourses in substance use disorders research practices including but not limitedto "Good Clinical Practice/Research Ethics."
• Skill in reading technical andscientific documents including analysis of variance, simple correlations, andvarious statistical tests.
• Skill in analyzinginformation, problems, situations, and practices to formulate logical andobjective conclusions.
• Ability to communicate clearlyand effectively both verbally and in writing with subordinates and supervisors.
• Technology skills sufficientto use Word, Excel, Outlook, Email programs and PowerPoint to work on aday-to-day basis with these tools and to produce documents and reports, and toeffectively communicate with staff and managers.

Preferred:

• Master degree in a healthrelated field.
• Knowledge of onlineregistration programs (CashNET) sufficient to supervise staff and to overseethe production of reports and troubleshoot problems with online payments.