Substance Use Program Coordinator

Substance Use Program Coordinator

When you join the Arrowleaf team, you are committing to a meaningful career where your work will make a difference for your neighbors throughout Southern Illinois and strengthen our region as a whole. You'll have a chance to build well-being not just for the people you work with, but for yourself as well, as you gain life-changing experiences, enjoy highly competitive benefits, and experience unmatched opportunities for advancement.

The Substance Use Program Coordinator is a member of the Behavioral Health leadership team and is expected to provide strategic leadership, foster collaboration, and promote a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous quality improvement. This position leads assigned prevention, early intervention, recovery, and harm reduction initiatives by ensuring programs are implemented with fidelity, achieve measurable outcomes, and comply with all grant, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.

The Program Coordinator provides effective supervision, coaching, and professional development to assigned staff while fostering an environment of respect, teamwork, and shared accountability. This position builds and sustains strong partnerships with community stakeholders, schools, healthcare providers, government agencies, coalition members, and other organizations to strengthen the continuum of prevention, treatment, and recovery services throughout the region.

The Substance Use Program Coordinator is expected to demonstrate sound judgment, ethical decision-making, and strong organizational leadership while managing multiple grant-funded programs, competing priorities, and complex community initiatives. This role utilizes data to guide decision-making, evaluates program effectiveness, identifies opportunities for improvement, and implements strategies that enhance service delivery and community impact.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide overall coordination and leadership for all assigned programs, including BRIDGE, SAFE, SPF, and SUPR, ensuring all activities align with IDHS/SAMHSA requirements and agency goals.
• Develops, maintains, and facilitates community partnerships, coalitions, steering committees, advisory councils, and work groups, including the SPF-PFS Steering Committee and Southern Illinois Communities for Substance Use Prevention (SI-CSUP) Advisory Council, to strengthen prevention infrastructure, referral pathways, and community engagement.
• Coordinates community needs assessments, surveys, focus groups, data collection activities, and outreach planning efforts to identify community needs, inform prevention strategies, and evaluate program effectiveness.
• Oversees in the development and implementation of the Implementation Plan, Education Plan, Evaluation Plan, Outreach Plan, and Strategic Plan for assigned programs, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and in accordance with the project workplan.
• Leads the integration of evidence-based screening tools (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment - SBIRT, Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Family, Trouble - CRAFFT, Substance Use Risk Profile Pregnancy - SURP-P, Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACEs, Benevolent Childhood Experiences - BCEs) into Arrowleaf's electronic health record (Care Logic) and community partner workflows to enhance early identification and intervention.
• Coordinates the delivery of community prevention programs such as Nurturing Parenting for Families Affected by Substance Use and Drug Endangered Children (DEC) trainings, ensuring fidelity to evidence-based models.
• Supervises and supports Peer Recovery Specialists and other assigned grant-funded staff, with professional development, performance monitoring, and reflective supervision.
• Prepares and submits quarterly and annual reports, monitoring progress on goals, objectives, and outcome measures as required by funders and agency leadership.
• Participates in monthly programmatic meetings with external partners and grant funders to review performance data, identify trends, and recommend quality improvement strategies.
• Promotes cross-program collaboration to align prevention, treatment, and recovery activities within Arrowleaf's behavioral health continuum.
• Represents Arrowleaf at community events, coalition meetings, trainings, presentations, and stakeholder engagements while coordinating prevention education, overdose prevention initiatives, stigma reduction campaigns, public awareness efforts, focus groups, and other community outreach activities.
• Assists in overseeing and completing the distribution of harm reduction supplies including naloxone, safer smoking supplies, safer use materials, fentanyl and xylazine test strips, and other approved educational and prevention resources, ensuring compliance with grant requirements and agency policies.
• Ensures assigned program activities, reporting requirements, and grant deliverables comply with applicable funder requirements (IDHS, SAMHSA, and IL RCCA), agency…