Overall Role & Responsibility: The role of the
Collaboration and Training Specialist II is to facilitate, promote and
coordinate partners to effectively address community issues through
collaboration, improve access to resources, and facilitate training
opportunities on American Indian reservations. Primary
responsibilities include implementation of partner collaboration
services, high impact projects and integrated training programs,
inclusive of assessment, plan of action development, facilitation,
tracking, and day to day operations.
Essential Functions:
- Gain a complete understanding of program services and the issues
those services address.
- Listen to partners and interact with all levels of program
personnel with dignity, respect and cultural awareness.
- Retain and motivate partner programs while recognizing and
addressing their concerns and needs.
- Effectively present information in a clear manner, respond to
questions, and exhibit strong partnership building skills.
- Implement current and future High Impact projects using logic
model and the High Impact Program Develop Documents
- Organize, facilitate and convene focus or collaborative groups on
selected reservations and areas.
- Provide leadership and coordination of collaborative services and
training with attention to detail and organization.
- Identify and coordinate training with both on and off reservation
institutions. Hire and recruit trainers with a high sense of
cultural awareness and adult learning styles.
- Determine the training needs of partners/funders and effectively
match the training modality to partner or funding requests.
- Track collaborative and training progress and follow up with
project funders or program partners to ensure completion of plans of action.
- Thoroughly communicate all online training, institutional training
and online library resources to project funders or program partners.
- Build, develop, and administer incentive and leadership training
programs to encourage reservation self-sufficiency.
- Work with grant or project funders.
Secondary Functions:
- Participate in service activities, as required.
- Monitor, report, and control expenses.
- Provide progress reports to Program Manager of High Impact Programs.
- Other duties as assigned by VP/Program Director
Education/Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred with a minimum of three years related
experience in networking, facilitation management or community development.
- Work experience on American Indian reservations preferred
Job Skills Required:
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in writing and to
speak effectively before groups
- Ability to read and interpret budgets and strong general
mathematical skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation and listening skills.
- Creative: display original thinking; meet challenges
resourcefully; look for and take advantage of opportunities; present
ideas in a manner that gets others’ attention
- Business Acumen: Understand business implications of decisions;
display orientation to profitability; demonstrate knowledge of
competition; align with strategic goals
- Team player: Balance team and individual responsibilities; give
and welcome feedback; contribute to a positive team spirit
- Experience with and knowledge of computers, strong skills in the
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc) and
database applications.
- Comprehensive knowledge of standard office practices, technology,
equipment and techniques.
Work Conditions:
- Monday-Friday 8:00 am -4:00 pm
- Work is performed under the broad direction of the VP/ Programs
Manager with the majority of work performed independently.
- Extensive travel required.