ASSOCIATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

SUMMARY:

The COMPASS Associate Program Director will manage the day-today functioning of assigned HIV programs, including but not limited to the shard management of program team and outcomes. The COMPASS Associate Program Director participates as part of the COMPASS management team in the general oversight and planning of HIV services across the Institute for Family Health. The mission of the COMPASS Programs is to provide individualized, patient-centered, comprehensive services, rooted in harm reduction with an anti-stigma, anti-racism, social justice lens. The COMPASS Associate Program Director is an active participant in reaching this mission, and moving COMPASS programs to embody this mission.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Completes program intakes, reassessments, care/treatment plans, case conferences, adherence assessments and all other program services/forms within specified time-frames.
• Provides individual and group-based health promotion, treatment adherence counseling, risk reduction counseling and care/case management as needed to assist patients in decreasing barriers to viral load suppression and retention in care.
• Manages COMPASS program enrollment and caseload mix; including but not limited to explaining the program, completing enrollments, and assigning patients to Care Team members.
• Assists with management of high risk patients (i.e. in terms of behavioral health, violence, or medical issues) and completes necessary risk and safety assessments.
• Conducts post-test counseling for patients newly diagnosed with HIV.
• Responsible for providing administrative supervision of COMPASS program staff on assigned grant program and cross-coverage for other COMPASS managers when needed.
• Drafts and participates in the annual evaluations of COMPASS program team.
• Assists with collecting and tracking annual HR documents for COMPASS program team.
• Assists in the orientation of new program staff, including but not limited to training on program model, documentation, COMPASS norms, and other elements necessary to role; participates in vetting and interviewing candidates for hire.
• Leads collaborative discussions around career or skill development for COMPASS program team.
• Assists with leading programmatic meetings, including but not limited to staff meetings, case conferences, consumer advisory board meetings, and project specific meetings.
• Participates in COMPASS CQI committee, and provides leadership to CQI projects relevant to their program as well as general COMPASS improvement goals.
• Participates in practice-wide meetings and site leadership meetings, as needed.
• Serves as liaison for community outreach, linkage agreements, and learning bodies or committees as related to grant goals.
• Monitors compliance with grant deliverables and activities, ensuring program goals are met as required; ensures that grant activities are aligned with the grant’s scope of service.
• Assists in the preparation and updating of policy and procedure manuals.
• Participates in audit/site visit preparation and meetings.
• Works closely with the Program Director and COMPASS Program Associate to ensure timely and accurate data submission into required databases, occasionally entering patient-level data into reporting database.

• Bachelor's of Science degree required
• Master's Degree in Social Work, Public Health, or related field preferred
• Computer literacy with Windows-based operating systems and MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) required
• Bi-lingual Spanish, French or French Creole preferred
• Demonstrate an understanding of institutional and systemic racism and oppression, and how it presents in the work
• Ability to supervise team with a lens of social justice and racial equity, and discuss openly across relationships
• Commitment to making the programs and organizational policies more anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and inclusive of all identities
• Demonstrate organizational, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and the ability to handle multiple assignments at any time
• Ability to generate, interpret and analyze data from multiple sources
• Technical knowledge of program development and relevant community resources, ability to develop linkage with community organizations, as well as excellent communication and human relation skills
• Fosters strong interdisciplinary relationships with medical providers, nursing staff, and other care providers, and community/collateral partners through case conferences, huddles, and warm-handoffs

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action:

The Institute for Family Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. This job summary is intended to be brief and may not list all the duties and functions required, however, it does highlight the essential requirements. Nothing outlined in this job summary is to be construed as an express or implied contract of employment.

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