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Req #: 219911

Department: DEPT. OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Posting Date: 03/17/2023

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $5,449 - $8,173 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230119_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (PBSCI) within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department with 285 full-time faculty members, 280 clinical faculty members, and over 300 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department’s robust research portfolio totals $35 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development. The Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) was established by the University of Washington in 1973 and exists to advance research, policy, and practice in order to improve the lives of individuals and communities affected by alcohol and drug use and addictions.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting for a Program Operations Specialist. POSITION PURPOSE
This position works on the Community Drug Checking to Prevent Overdose Project. The goal of the project is to document details about the illicit drug supply in Washington State to inform individual and public health actions to prevent overdose and death. Drug checking best practice combines use of both Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and fentanyl test strips to allow for fast, simple, real-time qualitative analysis of drugs for the presence of fentanyl, other drugs, adulterants, and contaminants. ADAI will collaborate with six syringe service programs (or other harm reduction settings such as street outreach programs or supportive housing programs that serve people who use drugs) to provide onsite drug testing, confirmed by forensic laboratory testing.

Position Complexities: The Program Operations Specialist will oversee planning, implementation, and monitoring of all project activities; coordinate communication across project sites; develop systems for collecting, analyzing, and reporting testing results to multiple stakeholders; and collaborate on parallel evaluation efforts and longitudinal research on substance use and service utilization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate with Drug Checking Advisory Group(s) that include people with lived/living experience of drug use to support implementation and integration of project data into other public health and epidemiology systems (5%)

• Maintain oversight of multiple drug checking sites to ensure that all contractual requirements and expectations are met. Conduct monthly meetings and in person site visits as needed (30%)

• Oversee procurement of drug checking technology and related supplies (5%)

• Develop comprehensive drug checking operational guidelines based on best practice and ensure appropriate utilization of protocols at each site.

• Coordinate protocols with established national experts on drug checking (10%)

• Develop a training strategy and materials for drug checking technicians, oversee training, and provide ongoing technical assistance and training for technicians as needed. External technical assistance will be made available as needed to support this position (20%)

• With the Principal Investigator and other current ADAI staff, develop procedures and materials, including an online data dashboard, to collect, monitor and report drug checking and promptly disseminate public health alerts. (10%)

• Work with the Principal Investigator and a research support team to implement an anonymous, longitudinal utilization study among drug checking participants including support for recruitment, study coordination, protocol adherence, data collection, analysis, and reporting across all project sites. Additional data gathering and research activities may build upon the project activities (5%)

• Communicate regularly with ADAI Principal Investigator, DBHR Project Director, and community partners on project progress and challenges (5%)

• Monitor multiple subcontracts including deliverables, invoicing, and reporting (5%)

• Prepare and submit timely project reports to DBHR Project Director (5%) MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Social Work, or Related Field.Two years work related experience. Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Experience working with people who use drugs and/or in multidisciplinary teams in social services, health care, or public health.

• Knowledge of harm reduction principles, substance use, and related issues of homelessness, mental illness, poverty, and social determinants of health.

• Comfort working with people who use drugs and using non-stigmatizing language.

• Ability to establish and nurture collaborative relationships across disciplines, including harm reduction, public health, public safety, social services, health services, and researchers.

• Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills.

• Knowledge of software applications, to include Outlook, Office 365, and REDCap. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working in research projects.

• Experience working as a Drug Checking Technician or using drug checking technologies as a harm reduction tool.

• Knowledge of illicit drugs and drug markets, drug use practices, and harm reduction strategies to promote safer drug use.

• Ability to communicate technical subjects effectively with non-technical community members.

• Demonstrated effectiveness in managing multiple priorities and programs within a highly complex and fast-paced organization. Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.