Applicants with the combination of experience handling firearms and serving the target populations (construction and manufacturing employers, faith-based organizations, first responders, SMVF, and firearm owners) will receive preferential consideration. Ideal candidates should possess cultural competence and reflect the diversity of the communities and populations in the region they are assigned to. Successful candidates can demonstrate a blend of professional experience and training in various areas, including sales and marketing, motivational interviewing, handling resistance and stigma to mental health challenges, substance misuse & suicide, suicide risk factors and warning signs, evidence-based suicide prevention & intervention, and best practices for lethal means safety.
Field Coordinators must reside in or near the designated catchment areas: Southwest Missouri – to cover Barton, Cedar, Hickory, Jasper, Dade, Polk, Dallas, Newton, Lawrence, Greene, Webster, McDonald, Barry, Stone, Christian & Taney counties; St. Louis Metro region - to cover St. Louis city/county, St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin, Warren, Lincoln, and Washington counties; and Southcentral Missouri – to cover Laclede, Pulaski, Phelps, Crawford, Washington, Iron, Reynolds, Shannon, Oregon, Howell, Texas, Wright, Douglas, and Ozark counties.