Collaboration Coordinator - East

Position Summary

The Collaboration Coordinator – East will foster collaboration and advocate for Family Voice & Choice in partnership with other service delivery systems, State agencies, and other relevant stakeholders, including the Department of Public Instruction and SAMHSA-sponsored national agencies. With a focus on the eastern region of NC.

The Collaboration Coordinator also will work to establish a formal network or directory of different family, youth, and/or young-adult led organizations or roles within organizations across the State. This network or directory will help to facilitate future additional collaboration and coordination of individuals working to elevate the voice and perspectives of families, youths, and young adults across the state and help to make it easier than it is currently to identify who is engaged in this work throughout North Carolina.

• Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required; for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity or comparable background in independent academic or instructional activities, will accept a relevant undergraduate degree and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution.
• This position requires that the employee has relevant lived experiences related to personal and/or caregiving/family experience with a Serious Emotional Disturbance for at least 12 months.
• This position requires that employees have experience working in some form of paid or unpaid Youth/Family Peer Specialist, Navigator, Partner, or other similar roles.
• Applicants should be able to demonstrate experience with skills in the following areas: written and verbal communication skills, organization, and cross-agency collaboration and coordination.

• Applicants who are certified or eligible to be certified as a Certified Family Peer Specialist
  
  TM is preferred.
• Applicants who have experience working in a leadership role related to Youth and/or Family Peer Support and/or Education and live in the Eastern part of NC preferred.

• Collaboration and Coordination:
  Partners with local and State SOC Collaboratives in the eastern portion of North Carolina, promotes and advocates for Family Voice and Choice, attends and participates in local, state, and/or national meetings and conferences.
• Coordinating a network or directory of family, youth and/or young adult-led organizations:
  Establishes and maintains a formal network or directory of different family, youth, and/or young adult-led organizations or roles across the State of North Carolina.
• Build Family Capacity:
  Identifies and links families to partners across the State to address identified needs, develops peer support networks, develops leadership and advocacy skills among families.
• Program Outreach and Information Dissemination:
  Develops and updates content monthly and disseminates information via program website, electronic newsletters.
• Statewide needs assessment to inform program goals and evaluation:
  Collaborates with the PI to develop the content of the statewide needs assessment, conducts stakeholder interviews and focus groups.

UNC Greensboro is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, or status as a protected veteran.