Project Coordinator; OBAT TTA
Listed on 2026-02-09
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Healthcare
Healthcare Administration, Public Health
Overview
POSITION SUMMARY
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The Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) team in the Section of General Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center seeks a highly motivated individual to provide administrative, operational and project support for its statewide capacity-building efforts with community healthcare providers integrating addiction treatment into office-based settings. This position will sit within the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit, an academic unit at BMC/ Boston University School of Medicine, part of the Grayken Center for Addiction, that conducts research, educates health professionals, provides health care, builds capacity and informs clinical and public health practice and policy to improve the lives of people with unhealthy alcohol and other drug use.
The OBAT Program Assistant will report senior staff of OBAT TTA team, in addition to other senior leadership and provide administrative, operational and program support to the numerous projects that fall within the portfolio of programs overseen by the OBAT team.
BMC provides some of the most sought after addiction treatment services in the area and is a national leader in addiction treatment, education, research and training. BMC operates the largest opioid treatment program in New England, using a nationally recognized and nationally replicated model. Since 2007, BMC has been funded by the MA Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) for the State Technical Assistance Treatment Expansion (STATE) OBAT Program.
The goal of the STATE OBAT Program is to expand BMC’s collaborative care OBAT model to community health centers (CHCs) and other providers across MA. BMC’s OBAT model has proven to be highly effective at improving patient outcomes by expanding access to life-saving medications for addiction. BMC OBAT TTA offers free addiction training across Massachusetts for health care and social service teams to ensure patients across the state have access to the best treatment possible inside their own communities.
OBAT TTA uses a range of educational delivery mechanisms including, standardized state and regional trainings, conferences, virtual meetings and trainings and onsite trainings and technical assistance. Training and technical assistance efforts at BMC are rapidly expanding on the local, state and national level including provision of technical assistance to multiple clinical trials utilizing BMC’s nurse care manager OBAT model and several addiction-related Project ECHOs.
The OBAT TTA Project Coordinator will an integral part of the training and technical assistance team, participating in the education of thousands of care team members each year. They will also play a key role in organizing, planning and tracking educational activities using OBAT TTA’s website/database and other mechanisms.
Position:
Project Coordinator (OBAT TTA)
Department:
Research - General Internal medicine
Schedule:
Full Time
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