SUD Data Collection Specialist

The Creating Opportunities to Achieve Community Health (COACH) project is designed to build substance misuse/mental health promotion infrastructure to serve Detroit youth. COACH will utilize evidence-based alcohol and drug prevention and mental health promotion strategies through a basketball league. Prevention specialists will work to enhance youth participants’ protective factors and to educate family members and others in the community., * Conducts GPRA and other data collection interviews at designated intervals as required.

• Accurately records all data pertinent for analysis.
• Extracts data from interviews, forms and other documents as needed.
• Provides alerts to staff when scheduled data are due.
• Monitors data for completeness and performs data “cleaning” prior to data entry.
• Requests reconciliation of missing or incorrect data from staff.
• Enters data into spreadsheets, databases, and SAMHSA SPARS grant reporting website.
• Manages storage and retrieval of data.
• Utilizes appropriate software programs to score various standardized instruments as needed.
• Works closely with the contracted Data Analyst and Project Director regarding data collection requirements, report development, etc., according to established guidelines and deadlines.
• Maintains records of required data collection and submission and reports.
• Assists with coordination of meetings, e.g., scheduling, meeting notices and materials.
• Participates in COACH and other agency work groups, quality improvement committees, and prevention group meetings as assigned.
• Assists in maintaining and updating the community resource list, media reference list, curriculum inventory, program materials inventory, etc., related to the COACH project.
• Attends training, seminars, workshops, or as required.
• Participates in the promotion of program analysis, continuous learning, and continuous program improvement.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Project Director or other members of the leadership team.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience:

• Interviewing project participants to collect Federal GPRA data.
• Entering data into the SAMHSA SPARS system.

Do you have experience in Research data analysis?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, Bachelor’s degree in a research-oriented social science, healthcare, science, or business field.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Meticulous organizational skills
• Ability to complete work with a high degree of accuracy
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to flexibly work on multiple tasks concurrently
• Capacity to work proactively and positively with:
• Team members
• Service recipients
• Their family members

• Agency and community representatives

• Problem solving skills to minimize instances of project disruption due to technical or other issues.

Required Experience:

• 1 year of experience in a research assistant-type role in a SUD or MH provider agency, or in an academic, social science, healthcare, science, or business setting with data:
• Collection interviews
• Entry into databases
• Monitoring for quality and completeness

• Management, e.g., “cleaning”, storage, retrieval

• 1 year of experience working as a member of a project team
• Experience in proficiently using Microsoft Office, e.g., Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Ability to rapidly become proficient entering data into the SAMHSA SPARS database., * Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Experience:

• Behavioral health: 1 year (Preferred)
• social service or human services: 1 year (Preferred)

Pulled from the full job description

• Professional development assistance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off, * Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift