Liaison Position, Georgia’s Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission
Category : Alumni
The BHRIC Coordinator provides high level administrative support to the Commission Chairman and subcommittee chairs, and members. This includes taking calls, scheduling meetings, managing executive requests, and disseminating documents. The liaison will also be in charge of taking minutes at all meetings and reporting back to commission members in a timely manner. You can find more information about BHRIC here and here. If interested, please reach out to Dr. Emily Anne Vall at evall [at] resilientGA [dot] org.
The Liaison is tasked with assisting in the compiling and preparing the yearly reports from the commission and all the subcommittees, before the next legislative session. The BHRIC Liaison is responsible for the monthly subcommittee coordination with the sub chair and correspondence with members of commission (i.e. calendar invite, zoom link, agenda). Liaison will attend all commission and sub-committee meetings and handle all BHRIC related requests from the Commission and sub-commission Chairs.
The liaison is a grant funded year-round position, expecting to have meetings scheduled monthly for at least one subcommittee. This position is expected to last through July 30th, 2025.
Salary Estimate:
● $45 to $65k per year based on experience Reporting:
- Reporting to Agency Grant Manager
- Supervision to BHRIC Chairman Tanner
- Meeting Coordination and Preparation
- Researches, prioritizes and follows up on incoming issues and concerns with appropriate members of BHRIC and their staff
- Keeps BHRIC informed of upcoming meetings, commitments, reporting requirements and other responsibilities
- Coordinates and schedules BHRIC meetings and sub-committee meetings with members, the public, the Chairman’s office and when needed the Governor’s office
- Coordinates and schedules BHRIC testimony with stakeholders, partners and subject matter experts
- Collects and coordinates presentation materials for use by others, at times editing content
Composes and/or prepares correspondence, memoranda, forms, and reports using appropriate word processing and spreadsheet tools
Assists in preparing materials for all BHRIC meetings and sub-committee meetings
Works with Chairman’s office, Governor’s office, BHRIC members offices, and various legislative offices to ensure appropriate meeting space and technology is available for BHRIC testimony and meetings
Report and Data Coordination and Preparation
- Collects and at times conducts research, analyzes data from BHRIC testimony and creates reports and executive summaries
- Synthesizes technical documents, data and information and produces layman briefs and/or fact sheets for BHRIC members
- Proofreads technical documents, reports and briefs for grammar and formatting
- Organizes and records testimony data including recorded meetings, written testimony, subject matter expert presentations and reports
Job Qualifications and Skills and Knowledge Needed
- Knowledge of principles and practices related to policy analysis
- Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply related federal, state, local laws, rules
- and regulations
- Extremely organized and able to track, organize and record testimony and relevant data
- provided to BHRIC
- Ability to track relevant local, state, and federal legislation related to BHRIC
- Ability to prepare clear and concise reports, correspondence, and other written
- materials
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to conduct literature reviews, data analysis, and other types of qualitative and
- quantitative research
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Google Docs and Canva