Project Director - ISAP

This position serves as Project Director within the
Integrated Substance Abuse Programs Training Center and functions as a core
trainer for both internal and external training events. The role includes
supervising staff and overseeing financial transactions, including program
budgets and expenditure control.

The Project Director will develop and implement strategies
for a training program that meets internal needs while remaining marketable to
community agencies and substance use disorder professionals. Additionally, this
position leads the development of high-quality training curricula of varying
lengths and complexity, designed for presentation to the broader community on
topics related to substance use disorder treatment, drug trends at the state,
national, and international levels, and the treatment implications of these
evolving trends.

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

Required:

• Knowledge of and familiarity
  with the literature on substance use disorders.
• Demonstrated ability to
  organize large-scale meetings with multiple speakers and large audiences.
• Skill in negotiating contracts
  with hotels and other agencies to achieve optimal results. (A/B)
• Knowledge of promotional and
  advertising activities that attract audiences to continuing education
  conferences.
• Ability to work with multiple
  tasks and conflicting priorities to achieve objectives on time with accurate
  results.
• Demonstrated ability to write
  complex research papers, grant reports, and white papers that use correct
  syntax and grammar, and clearly represent research or grant findings.
• Skill in supervising staff to
  determine and clearly express performance expectations.
• Ability to evaluate staff
  performance on a regular/on-going basis. Skill in preparing annual performance
  appraisals that accurately reflect staff progress toward stated goals.
• Skill in delegating tasks to
  subordinate staff, including appropriate instruction and subsequent
  follow-through to ensure that tasks are completed within stated time frame and
  anticipated results.
• Excellent communication skills
  to work with community agencies, speakers, conference/meeting participants, and
  health care professionals to achieve stated goals and objectives.
• Excellent presentation skills
  sufficient to represent the University at professional meetings and workgroups.
• Meeting organization skills to
  ensure that all details including registration, materials, technology, hotel or
  site interface result in a high level of satisfaction from participants and
  speakers.
• Knowledge of University
  travel, reimbursement, and procurement requirements sufficient to carry out
  logistical requirements of the conferences.
• Knowledge of Continuing
  Education requirements for professional organizations and/or licensing boards
  sufficient to ensure that all specifications including reporting criteria are
  met and satisfied.
• Ability to prepare, monitor
  and report program budgets.
• Knowledge of University Sales
  and Service and Foundation accounting sufficient to ensure that receipts and
  expenditures are deposited and reported accurately. Knowledge of project coding
  within the University system and skill in insuring that expenditures are
  credited to the proper conference/event.
• Skill in identifying donor
  opportunities to support conference and event functions.
• Ability to prepare cogent and
  professional presentations. Skill in using PowerPoint for slide presentations.
• Meeting management skills to
  conduct focused and objective driven meetings.
• Knowledge of web development
  sufficient to instruct webmaster to produce clear and user-friendly web
  announcements and registration materials for conferences and events.
• Ability to effectively teach
  courses in substance use disorders research practices including but not limited
  to "Good Clinical Practice/Research Ethics."
• Skill in reading technical and
  scientific documents including analysis of variance, simple correlations, and
  various statistical tests.
• Skill in analyzing
  information, problems, situations, and practices to formulate logical and
  objective conclusions.
• Ability to communicate clearly
  and effectively both verbally and in writing with subordinates and supervisors.
• Technology skills sufficient
  to use Word, Excel, Outlook, Email programs and PowerPoint to work on a
  day-to-day basis with these tools and to produce documents and reports, and to
  effectively communicate with staff and managers.

Preferred:

• Master degree in a health
  related field.
• Knowledge of online
  registration programs (CashNET) sufficient to supervise staff and to oversee
  the production of reports and troubleshoot problems with online payments.