Collaboration & Training Specialist

Description

• Overall Role & Responsibility: The role of the Collaboration and Training Specialist 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 and effectively match the training modality to
• partner requests.
• Track collaborative and training progress and follow up with program partners to ensure
• completion of plans of action.
• Thoroughly communicate all online training, institutional training and online library
• resources to program partners.
• Build, develop, and administer incentive and leadership training programs to encourage
• reservation self-sufficiency.
• Work with 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 LTS Manager

Work Conditions

• Monday–Friday 8:00 am -4:00 pm
• Work is performed under the broad direction of the LTS Manager with the
• majority of work performed independently.
• Extensive travel required.

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

Requirements

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.