CONTINUING EDUCATION SPECIALIST

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At the University of Washington School of Social Work, we commit ourselves to promoting social and economic justice for poor and oppressed populations and enhancing the quality of life for all. We strive to maximize human welfare through education, research, and public service. We embrace our position of leadership in the field of social work and join in partnership with others in society committed to solving human problems in the twenty-first century.

The UW and the School of Social Work promote diversity and inclusivity among our staff, faculty and students; we seek applicants for this position who are committed to these principles and whose experiences have prepared them to fulfill our commitment to inclusion and have given them the confidence to fully engage with audiences from a wide spectrum of backgrounds.

POSITION PURPOSE
The Social Development Research Group (SDRG) at the University of Washington has an outstanding opportunity for an Intervention Specialist.

SDRG (www.sdrg.org), part of the School of Social Work, is a nationally recognized, multi-disciplinary group of researchers and staff members united in a common mission: To engage with diverse communities to promote healthy behaviors and positive social development using prevention principles, rooted in rigorous science.

Communities That Care (CTC) is a community-wide prevention framework that brings together representatives from all sectors of a community to identify priority risk and protective factors in youth data and help child-serving systems like child welfare, juvenile justice, and education work together to fund proven tested and effective prevention programs that address the priority risk and protective factors directly—and to implement these programs with fidelity to their specifications, under community oversight, tracking progress in youth outcomes to ensure the desired results are achieved. CTC requires a skilled, experienced coach behind the scenes, who helps community coordinators guide their coalitions through a carefully sequenced five-phase process. CTC PLUS is the web-based platform through which CTC is delivered by the University of Washington.

The 50% FTE CTC Specialist will be responsible for training and coaching site coordinators, training and coaching CTC PLUS coaches-in-training and monitoring the progress of prevention coalitions in communities that are implementing Communities That Care and/or Evidence2Success (a similar community prevention system).

The CTC Specialist will provide training and support to Center partners for Center for CTC programs including Guiding Good Choices (GGC), Social Development Strategy, and others as required.

The CTC Specialist will participate in in weekly Center meetings and contribute to ongoing development of Center programs and services.

The CTC Specialist may be asked to attend in-person conferences or meetings and/or webinar or video conferences as a presenter and/or exhibitor.

Travel may be required.

The position combines technical skill in training and coaching in the CTC operating system and a knowledge of adult learning theory and best practices. Ability to adapt for work in diverse communities with diverse stakeholders.

The role of the CTC Specialist is to coach community facilitators and CTC PLUS coaches-in-training through the implementation of Communities That Care, an internationally recognized prevention system, ensuring quality in technical aspects of implementation and fidelity to the CTC operating system. Because of the diverse stakeholders involved at the community level, this position requires diplomacy and adeptness at dealing with complex organizational politics. The CTC Specialist works directly with communities to help install evidence-based prevention programs and strategies that promote positive outcomes and healthy youth development.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Conducting weekly, bi- monthly (or more frequent) coaching telephone or zoom/video conference consultations with coordinators, coaches and/or coalition leaders in the intervention communities, consisting of the following activities: 50%