Community Program Coordinator

Responsibilities

• Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as Community Program and Peer Network Coordinator supporting mission critical work on an exciting program.
• Help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.
• Responsible for comprehensive and effective coordination, development, and evaluation of programs and services that contribute directly and positively to resiliency of the assigned unit’s force and families.
• Organize and oversee peer support networks for their assigned commands; recruit active duty and family member peer support counselors, ensure participating peer support counselors are vetted and trained according to the program standards.
• Collect and report data for formative and outcome evaluations of peer support programs and other community-based support programs.
• Develop needs‑based programming to service specific demographic groups and geographic locations.
• Establish, maintain, and report activity of peer counseling networks for supported unit’s Service members and family member spouses.

• Bachelor’s degree in education, human/social services or related field, or four years of experience providing social service education, work/family life consultation, or coordination services.
• Minimum 2 years of experience coordinating social service education programs.
• Currently possess or be willing to receive specialized training on peer support counseling, community resources and referrals, and suicide prevention.
• Remain current on their knowledge of best practices and developments in areas of peer support counseling and suicide prevention and will keep abreast of DoW’s services and community sponsored resources intended to promote the wellbeing of Service members and their families.
• US Citizenship required.
• Secret or Top‑Secret Clearance, or the ability to obtain a clearance.

• program coordination
• program development
• program evaluation
• data collection
• needs‑based programming
• peer support counseling
• community resources
• referrals
• suicide prevention

• organizational skills
• communication skills
• leadership
• interpersonal skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Secret Clearance
• Top-Secret Clearance