Community Outreach Coordinator
$62,400–$72,800 year
Hybrid · Seattle, Washington, United States or Spokane, Washington, United States
Job Summary
The field-based Community Outreach Coordinator (COC) will work in Spokane and across the Western Washington region to build awareness of Ideal Option’s opioid-use disorder treatment services and generate new patient referrals. Responsibilities include developing strategic outreach plans, implementing outreach activities and partnerships, representing Ideal Option on committees and at conferences, delivering education on medication-assisted treatment, reporting weekly on outreach programs, gathering and evaluating data, maintaining a pipeline of partnerships (e.g., jails, hospitals, primary care, law enforcement, behavioral healthcare providers), supporting community organizations in opioid response, understanding local government activity, identifying expansion opportunities, and supervising one or more peer outreach specialists. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, capable of engaging diverse audiences, possesses excellent written and verbal communication, has strong customer-service orientation, is technically competent, comfortable working with a distributed team, autonomous, results-driven, and able to travel frequently within the state with overnight stays as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- 3+ years of experience coordinating and organizing community outreach activities (preferably related to substance use prevention or treatment)
- Familiarity with law enforcement assisted diversion programs, crisis intervention programs, correctional facilities, drug courts, drug treatment, and drug abuse prevention/education organizations
- Existing relationships with legislators and public officials at the state, county, and city level
- Understanding of evidence base for addiction treatment and familiarity with opioid epidemic history
- Experience coordinating trainings, partnership building, networking with agencies and organizations, and community outreach
- Experience in strategic communications planning, health promotion, social marketing, and behavior change communication
- Experience in community engagement, information dissemination, and development of informational materials
- Experience in data gathering, interpretation, and evaluation
- Strong interpersonal and group presentation and writing skills
- MS Office computer skills
- Project management experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Driver's license and personal vehicle (mileage reimbursed)
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