This position manages the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Administration’s Adult Drug Court Grant Program and Residential Substance Abuse Treatment projects, including program development and implementation as well as technical assistance contracts. This role will ensure that programming supporting individuals in jails and therapeutic courts are meeting their goals and grant deliverables through consultation with facilities. The ideal candidate will have experience with the criminal legal system and federal grants in performing this work that impacts vulnerable populations.

Per Governor Inslee’s Directive 22-13.1, state employees must be fully vaccinated. Your vaccine status will be verified upon acceptance of a contingent job offer. Please note, medical or religious accommodation may be available once an offer of employment is made.
 
Division philosophy statement:
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery values and seeks diversity, equity, and inclusion as integral to the behavioral health field. We support, embrace, and celebrate everyone’s uniqueness, promote inclusion, and commit to remove systemic barriers that affect our workforce, our providers, and the people that receive prevention, treatment, and/or recovery support services.
 
About the position:
This position supports the Health Care Authority’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) mission and strategic goals including increasing state based training capacity and remote training opportunities; refining of admission practices; creating comprehensive strategies to support treatment courts in addressing equity and inclusion challenges; and improve access to MOUD and other evidence-based treatments, particularly in jails, prisons, and high poverty and rural jurisdictions.

Duties

Some of what you will do:
 Direction of the statewide Adult Drug Court Grant Program

• Develop statewide policy and implementation of the Adult Drug Court Grant Program in collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation and Administrative Office of the Courts.
• Coordinate the implementation, creation, and development of statewide training protocols that expand local training and technical assistance capacity and remote training opportunities.
• Lead implementation, creation, and development of equity and inclusion challenges in Washington’s treatment courts.
• Support the implementation, creation, and development of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assessment tool at select sites; facilitated workshop(s).
• Lead implementation, creation, and development of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) expansion and enhancement through low-barrier, medication focused interventions.
• Conduct statewide resource mapping to identify MOUD service gaps in treatment courts.
• Submit require grant reports and deliverables in a timely and complete manner.
• Negotiate and manage performance-based contracts related to the implementation of each grant award.
• Lead the implementation and evaluation team associated with each grant.

Manage the implementation of federal project: Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT)
project.

• Submit require grant reports and annual renewal applications in a timely and complete manner.
• Negotiate and manage performance-based contracts related to the implementation of each grant award.
• Lead the implementation and evaluation team associated with each grant.

QualificationsRequired qualifications:
Candidates will qualify if they meet one of the following combinations:

• Master’s degree with major area of study in social services, public administration, healthcare administration or another relevant field AND three years of experience providing consultative services and program management, OR
• Bachelor’s degree involving major study in business administration or related field AND five years of experience performing administrative work in a business office, fiscal controls, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or comparable responsibility.

Experience and proven skills in writing, verbal communications, grant development and management.

Expertise working with individuals with behavioral health needs, and community service system development to meet the unique needs of this population.

Preferred qualifications:

• Competency to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders, including other government agencies, county commissioners, municipal leaders, community-based providers, criminal justice/legal system staff, and advocates.
• Competency to work collaboratively with state and local government officials and/or legislators or legislative staff.
• Knowledge of national and local best practice in behavioral healthcare in criminal justice/legal settings including evidence based and research-based practices.
• Knowledge of behavioral health disorders and impact of substance use.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Writing and management skills.

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