NW Cook County Program Manager

Women, trans, gender non-conforming and queer folks, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Live4

Lali is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate by race, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability in its procedures and policies.

Involvement in the criminal justice system is not an automatic disqualifier.

Substance use disorder continues to be a devastating public health crisis. Americans die from drug overdoses at a rate of roughly 210 to 300 people per day. In 2023, there were 105,007 total drug overdose deaths in the United States. In Illinois, 3052 residents died from an accidental drug overdose in 2023, which is more than twice the number of fatal motor vehicle accidents and more than twice the number of homicides.

The increase in the number of fatalities is attributed to the rise of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. Since 2013, synthetic opioid deaths in Illinois have increased 3,341%.

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Lali has been serving suburban Chicagoland for nearly sixteen years providing critical prevention, education, treatment access, support programs, community solutions-building initiatives, harm reduction, and overdose prevention services to decrease the devastating toll of the opioid epidemic. Live4

Lali’s mission is to reduce stigma and prevent substance use disorder among individuals, families, and communities, and minimize the overall health, legal and social harms associated with substance use.

The NW Cook County Program Manager oversees and coordinates resources for all Live4

Lali programs across Suburban Cook County and is based out of our Arlington Heights office with travel across NW Suburban Cook County. The NW Cook County Programs Manager will also participate in program design, operations, measurement and reporting, grant support, and staff training and management.

The NW Cook County Program Manager will report to the Director of Programs and will be engaged in the following activities:

• Aid/consult in development and design of Live4
  
  Lali’s Harm Reduction program across Cook County County;
• Manage all current and future Live4
  
  Lali outreach grants and initiatives—including SUPR, Mobile Outreach, and new programs—overseeing grant compliance, reporting, data collection, and performance management;
• Management of virtual and in-person Peer Support Programs including SMART Recovery Meetings;
• Management of Overdose Prevention and NARCAN Training Programs;
• Management of Education and Awareness Programs;
• Management of two Outreach Coordinators including on-boarding, training and continuing education and management;
• Program resource management including supply management, usage monitoring and budgeting;
• Utilize and analyze accessible data to identify trends based on hotspots in consideration of program promotion and provisioning of harm reduction services.
• Identify community coalitions, networks and partnerships and participate in advocacy initiatives aligning with the organizational philosophy and provision of harm reduction services.
• Identify, communicate and coordinate available resources to staff for participant engagement and use;
• Conduct community needs assessments and work collaboratively with local partners to co-develop programming and initiatives, while communicating plans, projects, and progress with key stakeholders;
• Collaborate in the evaluation of current and creation of new programs;
• Assist in data collection and program reporting;

The NW Cook County Program Manager will be a person with at least 2 year’s experience with program creation and management. Being bilingual in Spanish is a plus. They will preferably also have a minimum of two years’ relevant work experience in substance use disorder, mental health, public health or social work, and/or be a person of lived experience with at least two years in recovery/remission from substance use disorder.

This candidate will demonstrate the following qualifications:

• Direct service delivery experience in the community social services sector with a demonstrated working knowledge of community-based programs…