Suicide Prevention Coordinator

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The Virginia Department of Veteran Services seeks a Suicide Prevention Coordinator to drive prevention initiatives, coordinate partnerships, and support statewide programs across Virginia.

The role requires planning, working with diverse stakeholders, and delivering training and facilitation to advance evidence-informed suicide prevention strategies. Travel and collaboration with SOS partners are essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to operate in a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication, analytical and organizational skills.
• Act as a liaison between federal, state, and local behavioral health and suicide prevention partners to provide technical support and training.
• Thorough knowledge of suicide prevention, policy and service delivery issues from interagency perspectives.
• Ability to work with diverse behavioral health and suicide prevention stakeholders and partners.
• Strong training and meeting facilitation and consultation skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate suicide prevention initiatives to reduce deaths and strengthen wellness across Virginia.
• Collaborate with community partners, agencies, healthcare providers, schools and coalitions to advance prevention strategies.
• Support statewide and community-based activities across the suicide prevention continuum (prevention, identification, intervention, postvention).
• Assist with state priorities and promote coordinated approaches addressing affected populations.

Skills

Deadlines-driven

Excellent communication

Interagency liaison

Suicide prevention knowledge

Training and facilitation

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Title: Suicide Prevention Coordinator

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist I

Hiring Range: $75,000-$80,000

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Dept of Veterans Services

Location: DVS HQ-Richmond

Agency Website: www.dvs.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Veteran Services is seeking a dedicated and experienced professional to serve as the Suicide Prevention Coordinator. The Suicide Prevention Coordinator operates in a deadline-oriented, fast-paced environment and is an integral member of the SOS team. This position reports directly to the Suicide Prevention and Opioid Addiction Services (SOS) Director.

The Suicide Prevention Coordinator supports the planning, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of suicide prevention initiatives designed to reduce suicide deaths and attempts and strengthen behavioral health and wellness across Virginia. The position works collaboratively with community partners, state and local agencies, healthcare organizations, schools, behavioral health providers, coalitions, and other stakeholders to advance comprehensive, evidence-informed suicide prevention strategies.

The Suicide Prevention Coordinator supports statewide and community-based activities across the suicide prevention continuum, including prevention, early identification and intervention, training, community engagement, resource development, postvention, and connection to crisis and behavioral health services. The position also assists with implementation of state suicide prevention priorities and promotes coordinated approaches that address populations and communities disproportionately affected by suicide.

The Suicide Prevention Coordinator shall display an aptitude for problem solving, as well as maintain effective attention to details, meeting deadlines and prioritizing competing demands. It is important that the candidate be able to perform these tasks at a high level of accuracy and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate successfully with various partners, grantees, and grant agencies.

Minimum Qualifications

• -A demonstrated ability to operate in a deadline-oriented, fast-paced environment, work independently and collaboratively on a wide variety of outreach, training and consultation duties for behavioral health, crisis services, opioid services and/or suicide prevention.
• -Excellent oral and written communication skills, analytical, problem solving, organizational skills, presentation skills, database and data collection, tracking, storage, and retrieval.
• -The ability to act as a liaison between Federal, State, and local behavioral health, crisis services, other state agencies and suicide prevention partners, SOS grantees, and grantee agencies to provide technical support, and training.
• -Thorough knowledge of suicide prevention, including the incidence and prevalence of suicide, policy and service delivery issues, best practices in suicide prevention and intervention from interagency, federal, state and community perspectives.
• -An ability to work with diverse behavioral health and/or suicide prevention stakeholders, and partners including other state and local agencies and organizations, service recipients, suicide survivors, universities, advocates, etc.
• -Strong training and meeting facilitation and consultation skills.

Additional Considerations

• -Extensive professional experience in suicide prevention services, administrative experience, and experience with interagency issues at state and local levels, with veteran specific experience preferred.
• - A valid Driver’s license is required.
• -Excellent attention to detail is an absolute must as well as, computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
• -Ability to exercise independent judgment and proven skill in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making, proactively plan to resolve problems, identify, and recommend and implement viable solutions.
• - Willingness and ability to travel up to 60% of the time, including frequent overnight and multi-day stays, to support business operations and client needs.

Contact Information

Name: DVS HR Team

Phone: N/A

Email: [e-mail]

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

The decision to interview an applicant is based solely on the information received for this position from either the electronic applications and/or resume.