Project Director

Job Description

Job Description

 

Position Title:

Project Director for Adult Technical Assistance

Position summary

The project director is responsible for ensuring that activities are carried out according to established specifications, schedules, and budgets; coordinates interdepartmental functions to minimize delays; meets with program team members regularly to review program status and plan future. The Project Director is responsible for providing follow-up training and technical assistance to adult drug treatment courts.

Specialized Duties:

• Assist a select number of BJA grantees with meeting the goals of their grants.
• Conduct virtual interviews with a select number of BJA grantees.
• Conduct onsite technical assistance and training with a select number of BJA grantees.
• Serve as a coach for treatment courts to assist them with implementing best practices in their program.
• Develop work plans and time task plans with BJA grantees.
• Responsible for identifying trends with assigned teams.
• Participate in curriculum development meetings.
• Help develop training and technical assistance materials.
• Responsible for managing consultants and budgets for assigned projects.
• Provide training and TA for non-grantees.
• Create and manage a Program Proposal, Budget Narrative, and Time Task Plan.
• Establish a yearly time task plan for each task as outlined in the cooperative agreement.
• Responsible for managing deadlines for finalizing each aspect of all project tasks.
• Facilitate onsite and virtual training on drug treatment court research and best practices.
• Travel to select onsite training programs in connection with this project.

General Duties:

• Select and manage staff related to this project.
• Select, assign and manage consultants (i.e., guest speakers and facilitators) related to this project.
• Review technical assistance plans and schedule training opportunities for grantees.
• Assign a staff or consultant to provide training in response to the technical assistance plan.
• Provide onsite or virtual training.
• Schedule training based upon grantees' pressing needs to include operational tune-ups, incentives, and sanctions or specific target sessions from other BJA-approved NADCP curriculum.
• Complete training reports and forward to BJA, assigned faculty, and the jurisdiction within given timeframes
• Co-manage NDCI technical assistance staff
• Co-manage consultants providing training on behalf of NADCP
• Responsible for managing reimbursements of all project expenses.
• Produces final report at the end of the year about the overall effect of the training and technical assistance.

Onsite Training Post Training Duties:

• Contact select jurisdictions via telephone/email within seven business days of teams selected to participate in training to set up an educational conference call with the team.
• During the initial telephone call, explain the training process, the coaching process, and establish timelines for receiving paperwork.
• Ensure that each team coach/facilitator is provided contact information and any paperwork on the jurisdiction to prepare them for the training event before each training.
• Upon completion of the training, the project director will ensure that each team receives a survey to determine the outcome of the onsite training.
• Review all evaluation reports for accuracy and submit to division director and chief of training and research within 30 days of training for approval.

Skills:

• Strong and demonstrated project management skills
• Excellent writing skills, presentation and training skills.
• Understanding interdepartmental functions is essential to ensure that program schedules and objectives are met.
• Originality and initiative are important as well as the ability to work under unusual or extreme pressures.
• Superior supervision, management, public speaking, and administration skills
• Capable of handling multiple priorities
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite required including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Attributes:

• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally approximately 50% of the time.
• Energetic, self-motivated, detail-oriented person
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Originality - The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation or develop creative ways to solve a