Director of Grant Operations & Strategy

This position is open only to current State of Colorado residents

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies

Behavioral Health Administration 710 S Ash Street Denver, CO 80246

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This position is designated as hybrid with 3 days in office per week.

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These working arrangements are subject to change.

This position is located within the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) which is responsible for policy development, service provision and coordination, program monitoring and evaluation, and administrative oversight for the public behavioral health system.

Located within the Behavioral Health Administration work unit, pursuant to House Bill (HB) 21-1097. HB21-1097 provides that a Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) was created to be a single state entity. It was initially established under CDHS as of July 1, 2022, and provides administrative and “back-of-the-house” support as long as the BHA remains under CDHS’ purview. The BHA is a permanent entity that is responsible for leading and promoting the state’s behavioral health priorities and efforts across agencies, creating shared goals, improving collaboration, and driving accountability and transparency.

The BHA provides oversight and coordinate service standards across the hundreds of behavioral health programs that currently exist under multiple state agencies and the Judicial Branch. The BHA also works to ensure the recommendations that resulted from the work of the Behavioral Health Task Force (BHTF) and multiple ancillary projects evolving out of the work of the BHTF are honored and implemented, to ensure and meet our vision of having a comprehensive, equitable, effective continuum of behavioral health services that meets the needs of all Coloradans.

The Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) is responsible for policy development, service provision and coordination, program monitoring and evaluation, and administrative oversight for the public behavioral health system. BHA funds, supports and monitors numerous mental health and substance abuse community programs and providers, and reviews and designates the State’s 27-65 providers and licenses substance use disorder service providers. BHA executes the State’s federal responsibilities as the State Mental Health Authority and the State Substance Abuse Authority for the purposes of administering federal mental health and substance abuse block grant funds.

• Directs the agency’s formal grant vetting process including grant application intake forms and decision workflows to enforce strategic alignment, thorough upfront project/budget planning, and evaluate organizational risk before submitting grant applications.
• Leads proposal development, writing assignments, narrative editing, logic model development, and budget architecture for dollar grant applications.
• Provides technical assistance to program directors to translate complex federal Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) into executable project plans.
• Monitor the federal register and other sources of information about discretionary grant opportunities and emerging potential funding opportunities, determining fit with the Office strategic plan and summarizing viable alternatives for leadership review.
• Tracks grant application statuses, Notices of Award (NOAs), budgets, submission documents, and reporting deadlines.
• Establishes agency-wide protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), desk manuals, and workflow priorities while continually monitors team performance.
• Lead the preparation of letters of support/commitment and maintains bolierplate agency descriptions for grant proposals.
• Maintain…