OPS GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT I - 64906072

State of Florida • Fort Lauderdale, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Government Operations Consultant I will serve as the Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Coordinator for the CDC Overdose Data to Action: Local grant at the Florida Department of Health in Broward County. The coordinator facilitates OFR Committee activities, which bring together local and state government representatives and community partners to review fatal overdose cases, understand contributing causes and trends, and recommend changes to prevent overdose deaths.

The position coordinates the OFR review process, including case selection, data compilation and analysis, monthly committee and subcommittee meetings, and follow-through on recommendations. The coordinator researches recommendations, maintains a strategic implementation plan, collaborates with community partners, and supports substance-use prevention programming through data collection and analysis. The role also prepares reports, meeting minutes, case materials, and presentations, and presents overdose mortality surveillance findings to internal and external stakeholders.

This is a full-time, in-office OPS position requiring work at a Broward County facility and travel to multiple sites as program needs require. OPS employees do not receive paid time off; health benefits are available for full-time employment, and employees may participate in a deferred compensation plan.

Requirements

• Valid driver's license free of major infractions, access to an automobile for work purposes, and willingness to drive to multiple sites as program needs require.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public administration, health care administration, behavioral health, social work, psychology, or a related field.
• At least two years of professional experience in overdose prevention strategies.
• At least two years of professional experience developing presentations and facilitating large meetings with various stakeholders.
• Demonstrated understanding of overdose trends, contributing factors, and evidence-based prevention and harm-reduction strategies.
• Ability to abstract, validate, interpret, and synthesize fatality review data from multiple systems accurately.
• Ability to create clear, data-driven presentations and lead large multidisciplinary meetings to consensus.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across public health, public safety, behavioral health, and community partners.
• Ability to produce concise, high-quality reports, case summaries, recommendations, and meeting documentation.
• Ability to manage program activities, timelines, and grant deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Ability to learn and communicate effectively in English, orally and in writing.
• Successful completion of required security background checks and/or drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• At least one year of professional experience conducting epidemiological fatality review and surveillance.
• At least one year of professional experience in behavioral health, substance use, public health promotion or prevention, particularly overdose prevention or a related field.
• At least one year of professional experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with state, federal, and private-industry health care officials, public safety and public health employees, and the general public.

Responsibilities

• Create and revise data collection instruments.
• Conduct REDCap data quality assurance for Medical Examiner record abstraction.
• Abstract overdose decedent data from Broward County Office of the Medical Examiner and Trauma Services records into REDCap.
• Submit fatal overdose data to SUDORS.
• Ensure public notice is provided for each OFR meeting.
• Create and distribute OFR meeting agendas.
• Develop pre-fatality scripts for each decedent using hospital abstraction data.
• Abstract Medical Examiner record data, including incident summaries, scene findings, autopsy reports, toxicology, and next-of-kin interviews.
• Contact community partners to confirm prior interactions with each decedent.
• Aggregate overdose fatality data and create quarterly graphs.
• Compile case materials into PowerPoint presentations.
• Report weekly and monthly the number of Medical Examiner case abstractions.
• Report monthly the number of decedents reviewed at OFR meetings.
• Schedule and plan monthly OFR Committee meetings and participate in multidisciplinary meetings and subcommittees.
• Research committee recommendations, maintain a strategic implementation plan, and work with partners to implement selected recommendations.
• Complete required reports and meeting minutes, develop and deliver presentations, and secure presenters as needed.
• Collect, interpret, and analyze data to support the OFR Committee and improve substance-use prevention programming.
• Develop and deliver presentations on overdose mortality surveillance findings to internal and external stakeholders.

Benefits

• State of Florida 401(a) FICA Alternative Plan (mandatory).
• Participation in state group insurance upon meeting eligibility requirements.
• Workers’ Compensation (mandatory, if needed).
• Reemployment Assistance (Unemployment Compensation) (mandatory, if needed).
• Voluntary Deferred Compensation.
• Voluntary Employee Assistance Program.
• Health benefits for full-time OPS employment.
• No paid time off is offered to OPS employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level