Director Department
The Jewish Board

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

Program Director

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

The Jewish Board's Children's Community Residences are transforming to enhanced Children's Community Residences that will provide vision-driven, compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services and skills development to youth and families in the communities we serve. The Jewish Board operates 4 Children's Community Residences, 1 in Staten Island and 3 in the Bronx.

The Program Director is an essential leader, responsible for the overall clinical and operational aspects of the Children's Community Residences (CRs) and part of the leadership team of the Youth and Family Services Division, helping to create a continuum of quality services for youth and families. The Director is responsible for the coordination, administration, management, development and leadership of quality services, implementing identified evidence-informed and evidence-based practices and developing the skills of staff. The Program Director has on-call responsibilities for their residential programs. They report to a Senior Director within the Youth & Family Services Division. Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides leadership and vision to assist programs in achieving goals, continually improving performance and meeting challenges proactively and effectively
• Envision, develop and implement new programs, projects, expansions and initiatives
• Assists programs in utilizing established, effective interventions to achieve defined and meaningful outcomes
• Hires and provides clinical and administrative supervision to assigned staff
• Adheres to program budgets and maintains programs' fiscal viability
• Ability to assess program needs, increase efficiencies, and build teams
• Ability to develop and execute strategic plans with staff members to enhance programming
• Empathy for youth and families, and a passion for including youth and family voice in programming operations
• Capacity to lead and supervise an array of child/adolescent focused services within residential and community settings
• Expands and develops youth-guided family-driven care
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications:

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:

• Licensure (LMSW, LCSW, LMFT, LCAT) in a Behavioral Health or related field
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in youth and family-serving programs
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience as a clinical or operations supervisor

• Bilingual Spanish/English a plus
• Travel between assigned programs

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family Program Administration [500s]
• Job Function Directors
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8810 - Clerical Office Employees NOC
• Min Hiring Rate $105,000.00

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