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Virginia Tech Substance Misuse Coordinator

Hokie Wellness
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The Substance Misuse Coordinator serves and collaborates with the Hokie Wellness team to develop, implement, and evaluate alcohol and other drug initiatives. The Coordinator supports and leads campus efforts to provide evidence-based prevention programming. They will engage diverse audiences through one-on-one brief interventions, group workshops, campus outreach, and social platforms.

The Coordinator will be responsible for facilitating BASICS and one-on-one conversations around substance use by using motivational interviewing and active listening skills. This position will manage, develop, and implement outreach programs on alcohol and other drugs. They will stay current with public health research and will utilize best practices in prevention education to promote harm reduction strategies. Additionally, they will coordinate the 21st birthday project by securing partnerships for the coupon booklet, marketing the program through communication with students, and training peer educators to facilitate brief interventions. The coordinator will support the IMPACT Peer Education team through training and outreach events as needed. 

 

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in public health, health education, health communication, counseling, or other relevant human services or public health field and/or related experience
  • Experience in researching, implementing, and assessing health promotion programming and outreach in an education or community setting
  • Experience facilitating one-on-one interventions related to substance use
  • Familiarity with harm-reduction approaches to alcohol and other drug prevention and intervention
  • Strong public speaking and facilitation skills
  • Experience planning education outreach program and events

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience as a BASICS provider 
  • Knowledge of peer education programs or experience providing training and supervision in a professional capacity
  • Experience in a higher education setting 
  • Experience evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of public health programming
  • CHES Certification

 

Job Duties 

Intervention (50%)

  • Provide intervention and BASICS services for Student Conduct referred students and self-referred students 
  • Maintain meeting notes and overseeing record keeping for BASICS individual and group intervention
  • Attend supervision and stay up to date on necessary trainings
  • Manage department email and address student concerns and scheduling needs
  • Develop and maintain relationships and resource information in the community to maintain referral resources and connections.
  • Accurately track and record number of sessions and completed education

Outreach & Educational Programming (30%)

  • Manage collaboration requests from campus partners and schedule IMPACT peers accordingly
  • Collaborate with campus stakeholders to tailor programming to meet the needs of our unique campus populations
  • Prepare materials and support IMPACT peers in implementing outreach efforts
  • Research, develop, and implement harm-reduction focused outreach and education on topics of alcohol, cannabis, opioids, study drugs, and other drugs
  • Facilitate outreach and educational programming as needed
  • Utilize marketing request systems to brainstorm and develop effective social marketing campaigns and educational materials
  • Accurately track and record attendance for events including updating Gobblerconnect 

21st Birthday Project (15%)

  • Create, update, and evaluate 21st birthday protocol in order to train IMPACT peer educators to implement program
  • Coordinate with Registrar Office to gather student contact information for 21st birthday invites
  • Identify and collaborate with campus and community partners to secure coupons for 21st birthday booklet
  • Manage 21st birthday email account and communication to participants 
  • Advise IMPACT office assistants on managing supplies for the 21st birthday cart and tracking procedures
  • Design and order t-shirts for 21st birthday participants
  • Track attendance of 21st birthday project

Peer Educator Support (5%)

  • Train IMPACT peer educators on 21st birthday and outreach protocols
  • Prepare peer team to facilitate outreach events through-out the semester
  • Support assistant director and graduate assistant during the August training retreat
  • Attend IMPACT meetings as needed to support peer educator in the implementation of the programs and events