HEALTH PROGRAM SUPERVISOR/EXPERT

Position Number: 22104069
County: Pulaski
Posting End Date: November 11, 2026

This position is essential to overseeing statewide substance use services programs, SAMHSA-funded grants, provider contracts, and licensure requirements. Existing staff are already operating at capacity and cannot absorb these additional responsibilities without risking delays in program administration, oversight, and regulatory compliance. Maintaining this position is necessary to ensure continuity of operations, meet state and federal requirements, preserve Arkansas’s representation at the national level, and prevent further strain on an already overextended workforce.

Additionally, this position serves as Arkansas’s designated State Opiod Treatment Authority, SOTA, providing an important connection between state and national treatment initiatives. The SOTA is a federally required state function for states that have opioid treatment programs (OTPs). Arkansas currently has six OTPs.

Position Summary

Supports the Director of Substance Use Services in overseeing Arkansas’s prevention, treatment, and recovery grant programs while also serving as the state’s State Opiod Treatment Authority, SOTA. Responsibilities include administering and monitoring SAMHSA-funded grants and provider contracts, supporting licensure standards and regulatory compliance, providing technical assistance to treatment providers, and coordinating with state, federal, and national partners to strengthen substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services and improve access, quality, and outcomes statewide.

Special Skills/Preferences

• Strong knowledge of substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery systems, including evidence-based practices.

• Experience managing SAMHSA-funded grants, budgets, reporting requirements, and provider contracts

• Supervisory and leadership experience, including staff management, program oversight, and coordination of multidisciplinary teams.

• Clinical licensure or certification in behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment at the Master degree level, preferably LMSW, LCSW, LADAC, or equivalent credentials.

• Experience interpreting and implementing policies, regulations, and program requirements.

• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with state and federal agencies, treatment providers, and national organizations

The Department of Human Services is a place for people passionate about serving others and changing lives for the better. We care for Arkansans of all ages and ensure places like child care centers and nursing homes are safe. We are the safety net for the most vulnerable Arkansans. Whether you answer the phones, take applications, protect children, or help care for residents or patients at one of our facilities, you make a difference by working at DHS. Plus, working for the State has great perks, including a pension, maternity leave, paid state holidays, and much more. At DHS, we take care of our employees so you can help care for others.

The State of Arkansas is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.