Lead Prevention Specialist

POSITION: LEAD PREVENTION SPECIALIST 

CLASSIFICATION CODE: NON-EXEMPT FULL TIME  

DEPARTMENT: PREVENTION  

REPORTS TO: PREVENTION SERVICES PROGRAM MANAGER 

STATEMENT OF JOB: The Lead Prevention Specialist coordinates and leads substance abuse prevention services for youth, families, and community members through the Youth and Family Prevention Initiative. This position oversees prevention activities, coordinates staff and program deliverables, and ensures services are implemented effectively using evidence-based practices with culturally appropriate adaptations. The Lead Prevention Specialist promotes healthy lifestyles and positive behaviors by planning, facilitating, and evaluating prevention strategies, while providing leadership, operational support, and program oversight. The position also serves as the program's acting lead by providing coverage and maintaining continuity of operations in the absence of the Program Manager.

 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead and oversee staff to achieve program deliverables.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and regular performance feedback to enhance team productivity.
• Collaborate with program manager to align team efforts with organizational and department objectives.
• Ability to problem solve and communicate effectively.
• Understanding of grant funded programs.
• Provide coverage for prevention program manager when needed.
• Recruits and supervises program volunteers, maintain documentation of all services in the program.
• Coordinates youth substance abuse prevention and family services utilizing evidence-based curriculums.
• Organizing community-based engagement meetings, parent substance abuse awareness groups, youth led social media campaigns.
• Coordinating youth/elder storytelling media and incorporating cultural activities for youth (burden baskets, camp dress making, storytelling, cultural foods, etc.). 
• Perform responsible alcohol, tobacco, and other drug training, facilitation, and alternative activities targeting selective youth. These services will also deliver related services to older adults and develop environmental strategies to impact communities. 
• Develop family-based programming (groups, family nights, etc.)
• Monitor data collection and assessment of substance abuse prevention and implementation activities.
• Track participant data for reporting.
• Process program paperwork in accordance with agency/program deadlines and prepare and submit monthly/quarterly reports.
• Develops public service announcements. Participates in speaking engagements, health fairs, conferences, and other health promotion activities as designed by program supervisor. 
• Collaborate with the schools and communities to facilitate substance abuse prevention services. Services include prevention education, alternative activities, information disseminations, problem identification and referral, community-based process. 
• Network with other prevention and social services agencies within the region to include prevention, intervention, treatment, mental health, to provide comprehensive services, identify needs and make referrals as necessary. 
• Provide information sessions for parents, teachers, staff, or tribal entities when requested. 
• Document all program activities as required, submit reports and records according to the agency’s and grant guidelines. 
• Provide in-service training to staff on topics appropriate to expertise, interest, and knowledge. 
• Attend training, seminars, workshops, and classes as required by the agency. 
• Assist in community outreach, which includes but it not limited to substance abuse awareness campaigns such as Red Ribbon Week, health fairs, business expos, parades and other community events for the purpose of building community awareness and cooperation and providing anti- use messages. 
• Must conduct a minimum of 30-minute alcohol, marijuana and other drugs, presentations for youth and adults with an educational goal, that is objective specific to prevent or reduce use among youth and adults. 
• Must facilitate age-appropriate prevention alternative activities (minimum 30 minutes in length) that that teach and/or reinforce skills that promote a healthy and substance-free lifestyle that include an education goal and objective to prevent or reduce substance use/abuse.  
• Implements programs designed to provide growth experiences and offer exposure to healthy activities designed to deter use/abuse of violence, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.  
• Implement family based programming. 
• Develop parenting education and family activities. 
• Abide by all applicable policies, procedures, and program standards of ABHS, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Indian Health Services, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and other pertinent regulatory authorities.  
• Maintain ethical policies and guidelines as outlined in accepted State ethics laws, rules, policies, and principles and as outlined in discipline-specific code of ethics.  
• Provide a positive role model to clients and staff through leadership, self-discipline, and genuine care for the treatment and recovery of clients. All clients and staff members must be treated with dignity and respect.  
• Reports/attends work in timely manner. Must be reliable and communicate directly with supervisor in all matters of attendance.  
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or assistant director.  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Possession of a high school diploma with minimum of four years’ work-related experience in substance use prevention, substance abuse or related areas; AA/bachelor’s degree in mental health/human services/public health or related field preferred. Experience working with Native Americans preferred.  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to work effectively with a wide range of people, teams, managers, supervisors.  
• Valid Arizona Driver’s License and reliable transportation.  
• MS Office proficiency and ability to correctly operate copy machine and fax.  
• Ability to pass all pre-employment testing, including, but not limited to, fingerprint clearance, drug testing and background check.  

**NOTE: Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act (Title 25, U.S. Code, Section 472 and 473).  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

The physical characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.  

Constant: standing. Frequent: repetitive use of hand, walking, standing, bending neck and waist, squatting, climbing, kneeling, twisting neck and waist, simple grasping of left and right hand, power grasping right and left hand, fine manipulation right and left hand, pushing and pulling right and left hand, reaching above shoulder level, reaching below shoulder level, lifting objects weighing up to 25 pounds from below the waist to a height of 3 feet.