Company Overview

Founded in 1990, Kauffman & Associates, Inc. (KAI), is an American Indian– and woman-owned management consulting firm dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable populations and enhancing the reach and effectiveness of social sector organizations. We combine stories of lived experiences with meaningful, data-driven insights to reach underserved communities. We work closely with federal, tribal, state, and regional governments; associations; foundations; and private-sector businesses. At KAI, we do work that matters!

Senior Behavioral Health Advisor

The Senior Behavioral Health (SBH) Advisor is a key member of the Behavioral Health Transformation (BHT) team and will assist Technical Assistance (TA) Specialists and tribal grantee partners with resources to address mental and substance use challenges in Indian Country. The SBH Advisor provides expertise on Native substance use addiction approaches to prevention, treatment, and recovery, and Native strengths and emotional challenges that encourage or impede wellness and recovery. The SBH Advisor provides guidance, content knowledge, and strategic direction to understand health disparities, Native recovery resources, and tactics for improving outcomes.

The SBH Advisor position provides expert Native mental health and substance use content knowledge to the KAI BHT team, who in turn assist local community change through support to portfolios of tribal and urban Indian grantee partners. The SBH Advisor will serve as a point person and thought partner with representatives from federal, state, and county health agencies addressing Behavioral Health issues in Indian Country.

The SBH Advisor supports the BHT team with building awareness and understanding about prevention, treatment, and recovery from mental and substance use disorders, so Native individuals, their families, and communities can thrive, remain healthy, self-directed, contributing members within a social environment, and achieve their full potential. The SBH Advisor is responsible for meeting professional expectations for high quality, on-time, and on-budget contract deliverables. This position reports to the Vice President for BHT.

Essential Job Functions

• Thought leader acting as expert advisor for SUD service development and cultural integration for tribal BH/SUD programs.
• Provide expert-level guidance and expertise to address specific content-related efforts for changing the local care environment to better engage and support the prevention, treatment, recovery, and wellness of people, and their families, with substance use challenges.
• Contributing key member of BHT team to support grantees with tribal health service transformation and to encourage embedding of tribal best practices to reduce community substance use and increase Behavioral Health and related services.
• Conduct expert research to develop accurate and current content about Native mental and substance use challenges.
• Provide expert-level support to produce and deliver culturally resonant and accessible training, resources, and products for clients, grantees, and other communities served to support Native substance use and wellness initiatives.
• Support constituency and provider engagement, in a manner that is authentic, culturally appropriate, respectful, well-organized, and transparent, with clear and consistent communications. Provide specific support, guidance, and assistance to BHT Project Managers for project implementation and high quality TTA delivery to assigned portfolios of grantees.
• Serve as a readily available resource for TA Specialists and their assigned portfolios of grantees to aid with TTA Plans, readiness-for-change assessments, and advancement of grantee substance use programming goals.
• Develop and support for customized resources and work products for mental and substance use challenges (e.g., toolkit, brochures, fact sheets, flyers, posters, drop-in articles, blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, web banner ads, webpages).
• Participate in regular KAI internal project meetings, meetings with tribal health initiative teams, cross-team meetings with state and local county partners, and other efforts of coordination.
  

Demands/Complexity

The SBH Advisor position requires in-depth skills and content knowledge expertise to address the unique challenges of substance use in Indian Country and the training needs of Native and non-Native health providers and community leaders. The SBH Advisor must have knowledge of state-of-the-art TTA technology and software used at KAI, including platforms named above. This position may require periodic travel.

Contact with Others

The SBH Advisor shall regularly communicate with Project Managers, TA Specialists, and the Vice President for TTA. The SBH Advisor is expected to be accessible and available during normal business hours. The SBH Advisor is expected to communicate complex situations in a logical, step-by-step approach to reach solution-based strategies. Understanding that when discussing proprietary, confidential, and/ or sensitive information shared during regular communication with clients and staff, the SBH Advisor shall use discretion and seek guidance from their direct supervisor before sharing information with others, including KAI staff members and consultants.

Specific Job Skills

• Expert SUD knowledge for prevention, clinical-cultural intervention/treatment, and culturally responsive recovery supports
• Demonstrated experience with cross-cultural communication between tribal and non-tribal organizations
• Expert tribal cultural knowledge and expertise of cultural integration in SUD prevention, treatment, and recovery
• Innovative problem-solving and strategic thinking for Native Behavioral Health issues
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a larger team
• Exceptional communication skills (listening, public speaking, reading, and writing)
• Exceptional facilitation and team building skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 20 years’ experience working with American Indian, Alaska Native, and urban Indian communities in Behavioral Health field (required)
• Masters' degree in relevant field (e.g., social work, psychology, public health) required; Ph.D. preferred
• Peer-reviewed journal publications on Native Behavioral Health topics
• Demonstrated experience growing Native Behavioral Health workforce
• Experience promoting clinical partnerships and program coordination
• Experience with multi-disciplinary staff development
• Experience overseeing clinical teams (strongly preferred)

Job Conditions

This position requires extensive office work, computer work, and some travel based on contract and client needs. The job demands onsite, in-person and off-site TTA (e.g., email, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, webinars, internet research, and e-newsletters).

Job Status: The position will be full-time (100% FTE).

Benefit Summary

• 80% company paid medical insurance premiums, portion of family paid
• 50% company paid dental insurance premiums, portion of family paid
• Vision insurance
• $50K life insurance
• Partial internet reimbursement
• 100% remote work
• Matching 401K
• EAP