ASSOCIATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR at The Institute for Family Health

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

As a member of the IFH community, we expect employees to: adhere to the organization’s policies regarding time, attendance, and dress code; demonstrate reliability and trustworthiness; manage time and resources to meet established goals/projects within the agreed upon time frames; demonstrate accountability; maintain patient/employee confidentiality; meet applicable regulatory and annual health assessment requirements; self- identify learning strengths and needs; demonstrate a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with patients, families, significant others, members of the staff and extended community.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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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