Position Summary:

The Project Director serves as a member of the Prevention team of WestCare Tennessee and works to ensure the delivery of quality services to their staff and to the individuals served in the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant (SSPGF). The Project Director will provide direction and oversight to their staff regarding the community-based suicide prevention efforts to meet the needs of Veterans and their families through outreach, suicide prevention services, and connection to Veteran Affairs (VA) and community resources. The Project Director is responsible for program coordination in ten counties: Greene, Hamblen, Cocke, Jefferson, Sevier, Knox, Morgan, Roane, Loudon, and Cumberland counties.

Essential Job Functions:

Ensure the program aligns with the VA’s National Strategy for Preventing Veteran Suicide (2018) Ensure the program assists in further implementing a public health approach that blends community-based prevention with evidence-based clinical strategies through community efforts. Promote and provide health and wellness of eligible veterans and their families. Supervises SSPGF staff in planning, implementation, and delivery of prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction services to eligible veterans and their families. Work directly with federal, state, and local VA representatives and other veteran service agencies building lasting relationships to increase referrals and support for sustainability of services. Serve as community contact person to conduct program presentations and updates to grant partners who have submitted letters of commitment as well as building new relationships with additional businesses, government officials, agency leaders and other influential individuals that will support the SSPGF grant activities and services. Conduct monthly meetings with invited community leaders including grant partners to serve as your suicide prevention council to maintain connections and receive recommendations in continuing to serve eligible veterans and their families. Prepare and submit monthly SSPGF activity reports to both the VA and to the Regional Administrator of Tennessee using required data tracking systems or reporting forms. Monitor program expenditures to maintain proper inventory of supplies and equipment to ensure supply orders and program activities remain within budgetary limits. Review weekly workplans and weekly reports for scheduled activities/meetings from each staff confirming staff workplans align with grant performance measures and data collection requirements. Schedule weekly staff team meetings either virtually or in-person to discuss updates, successes, barriers or challenges to meeting grant requirements and plan service activities. Attend necessary monthly integrated staff team meetings in coordinating the care and services for each enrolled veteran and their families. Work closely with SSPGF grant’s Research Assistant and WestCare Foundation Evaluation team regarding the collection of data and reporting of program outcomes. Attend in-person and virtual program conferences and meetings, community meetings, and events as deemed necessary.

Track all staff training and share with program Research Assistant completed trainings