Program Coordinator IV

State of North Carolina • Durham, NC

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About The Position

This position works to provide leadership for DPH to address sexual violence prevention and manages the Branch’s Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) and funding for the Rape Set Aside Services under the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHS RSA). This position will work in conjunction with other IVPB programs to ensure a collaborative approach to violence prevention, while incorporating shared risk and protective factor approaches to sexual violence prevention. Position is responsible for coordinating, developing, and maintaining federal grants to strategize for and support community- and societal-level approaches for the primary prevention of sexual violence. Position is responsible for coordinating, developing, and maintaining federal grants to provide primary prevention programming and utilizing evidence-based strategies for sexual violence. The bulk of the funding received is awarded in contracts to organizations that provide primary prevention of sexual violence and victim services. The position is responsible for developing request for proposals from potential contractors, managing the programs contracts, and budgets. The position will also provide some technical assistance and program evaluation support to rape crisis centers and other community-based organizations across North Carolina. Work involves the technical and administrative activities of sexual violence prevention programs, with an emphasis on contract development, monitoring, and fiscal guidance for local and state-wide program partners; coordinating with internal and external partners; and monitoring local and state-wide program implementation to assure efficient and effective prevention service delivery. Work is guided by state and national evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies to include strategic plans, work plans and an evaluation plan. Work is reviewed on the state level through periodic conferences and reports from subrecipients. The position will ensure that rape and sexual assault issues are appropriately included in all NC efforts to prevent sexual violence, and the position will coordinate addressing these issues with the NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the NC Council for Women and Domestic Violence Commission, the Governor’s Crime Commission, and other appropriate agencies and organizations. The position will also work across the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch’s units. It will collaborate with other program/topic areas in the Prevention Unit as applicable, including identifying ways to integrate the Shared Risk and Protective Factor framework. It will work with the Branch’s Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics Unit to assure that epidemiological surveillance and data collection are adequate to provide information needed by programs and developers of policy (including the NC General Assembly). It will work with the Operations Unit to manage federal budgets and contract agreements with local subrecipients. This position involves the provision of technical assistance, excellent oral and written communication skills, experience with program planning and evaluation, developing and maintaining contract agreements, strategic planning, and working with a wide range of partners and populations.

Requirements

• technical assistance
• excellent oral and written communication skills
• experience with program planning and evaluation
• developing and maintaining contract agreements
• strategic planning
• working with a wide range of partners and populations
• Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and three (3) years of experience in the program related to the area of assignment.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing a grant-funded public health program.
• Experience with primary prevention of sexual violence.
• Experience using evaluation to improve programs.
• Experience interpreting data to inform prevention activities or other related public health programs.
• Experience with partnership development in North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• coordinate, develop, and maintain federal grants to strategize for and support community- and societal-level approaches for the primary prevention of sexual violence
• coordinate, develop, and maintain federal grants to provide primary prevention programming and utilizing evidence-based strategies for sexual violence
• developing request for proposals from potential contractors, managing the programs contracts, and budgets
• provide some technical assistance and program evaluation support to rape crisis centers and other community-based organizations across North Carolina
• ensure that rape and sexual assault issues are appropriately included in all NC efforts to prevent sexual violence
• coordinate addressing these issues with the NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the NC Council for Women and Domestic Violence Commission, the Governor’s Crime Commission, and other appropriate agencies and organizations
• collaborate with other program/topic areas in the Prevention Unit as applicable, including identifying ways to integrate the Shared Risk and Protective Factor framework
• work with the Branch’s Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics Unit to assure that epidemiological surveillance and data collection are adequate to provide information needed by programs and developers of policy (including the NC General Assembly)
• work with the Operations Unit to manage federal budgets and contract agreements with local subrecipients

Benefits

• Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis).
• Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave.
• In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

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