Youth Prevention Coordinator

CompDrug; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

CompDrug seeks a Youth Prevention Coordinator to empower youth, strengthen partnerships, and advance prevention goals. You will develop and manage projects expanding community engagement, supporting grant objectives, and increasing awareness of substance misuse and mental health prevention.

Collaborate with schools, community partners, and youth leaders to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and alignment with evidence-based strategies.

Qualifications

• Youth-led prevention experience or as a consumer of youth-led prevention services.
• 2+ years working with middle or high school-aged youth; youth-led prevention experience required.
• Experience with program budgeting, reporting, documentation, and expense tracking.

Responsibilities

• Represent the organization at community meetings and events.
• Assist with grant-funded project implementations and data collection.
• Maintain project documentation and prepare funder reports.

Skills

Youth-led prevention

Youth engagement

Budget tracking

Data reporting

Microsoft Office

Public speaking

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Youth Prevention Coordinator

Position Summary

CompDrug’s Youth Prevention team has an immediate opening for a Youth Prevention Coordinator. This successful candidate will combine their experience in youth led prevention programming with strong administrative and organizational skills to create opportunities that empower youth, strengthen community partnerships, and advance our prevention mission.

In this role, you will help build systems that allow young people to lead, communities to collaborate, and prevention efforts to grow sustainably. You’ll develop and manage projects that expand community engagement, strengthen youth leadership, support grant objectives, and increase awareness of substance misuse and mental health prevention.

Working collaboratively with youth prevention staff, schools, community partners, and youth leaders, the coordinator ensures projects are

completed on time, within budget, and aligned with evidence-based prevention strategies and organizational goals.

Work Arrangements

Full Time, 40 Hours per week

Work schedule to include Wednesday evenings and occasional Friday evenings and weekends/overnights

Work Location: 118 E Main

Non-Essential Staff

Reports to: Director of Prevention

Essential Functions

Administrative

• Represent the organization at community meetings, events, and conferences.
• Assist with implementation of grant-funded projects.
• Collect, organize, and report project data and outcomes.
• Maintain project documentation and required records and assist with preparation of reports for funders and organizational leadership.
• Track project budgets and expenditures as assigned.
• Collaborates with Director of Prevention to ensure programming meets standards and best practices for primary prevention.
• Supports team members in problem solving and conflict resolution
• Assist with the development of promotional materials including newsletters, social media content, and community messaging.

Programming

• Plan, coordinate, and oversee special prevention initiatives and projects.
• Develop project timelines, implementation plans, and evaluation measures.
• Monitor project progress and ensure deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Coordinate logistics for community events, campaigns, and prevention activities.
• Support meaningful youth engagement in project planning and implementation.
• Coach youth leaders to facilitate meetings, events, presentations, and service projects.
• Promote authentic youth voice in decision-making and program development.
• May assume responsibilities for coordination and execution of programming and events.
• Build and maintain relationships with schools, community organizations, coalitions, and local partners.
• Mandated reporter – ensures thatappropriate documentationissubmitted.
• Identifies program adjustments and supports Director of Prevention in implementing adjustments and changes.
• Ensurecompliance with company policies and procedures

Additional Functions:

• Performs other related projects, speaking engagements, training tasks, anddutiesassigned by supervisor.
• Maintains regular andtimelyattendance.
• Participates in periodic and annual compliance processes

Qualifications

• Youth Led Prevention experience – providing youth led prevention services or experience as a consumer of youth led prevention services.
• One or twoyears' experienceworking with middle or high school aged youth. Experience with youth-led preventionis required.
• Demonstratable experience working within a program, project or departmental budget: experience tracking and monitoring expenses, understanding of expense allocation.
• At least two years of professional experience in program delivery, including budgeting, reporting, documentation, and direct service.
• Ability to analyze project outcomes and make data-informed recommendations. Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office.
• Ability and willingness to develop and apply knowledge of company policies, safety practices and procedures.
• Strong customer service skills, including the ability to build rapport with youth, staff and representatives of partner programs and funders
• Ohio Prevention Specialist certification, or ability and willingness to obtain Registered Applicant status with Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board within90 days, must obtain Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist within 2 years.
• Organizational leadership, problemsolving,and public speaking skillsare required.
• Self-motivatedand creative.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Valid Ohio driver's license, auto insurance and ability to meet company driving policy.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Must be able to meet the following physical requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation: 1) Sit, walk, stand, use hands to manipulate, handle, feel, and control items or equipment; 2) Reach with hands and arms; 3) Talk and hear; 4) See and be able to read, write, and interpret text, spreadsheet, and graphical documents; 5) Occasionally lift and move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

Qualified individuals may apply online at CompDrug.org.

CompDrug is an equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free workplace.