Project Director
The Jewish Board

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

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

POSITION OVERVIEW:



The Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC) is a SAMHSA grant funded program. Its purpose is to enable the Community Behavioral Programs in the Bronx/Manhattan region support, enhance and integrate the services that clients receive through our outpatient clinics. The program effectively meets the needs of children/youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED), adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders.

The position entails program oversight inclusive of staff training, development and revision of systems for program operations and administration, ongoing integration of program-specific policies and procedures, budget planning, integration of health information technology, and community and program staff engagement. The Project Director will develop community outreach strategies & in-reach strategies for current consumers about available services and inform other community-based organizations about the services.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Management and oversight of the day-to-day activities related to the CCBHC grant to ensure it meets all criteria for grant
• Work collaboratively with onsite leadership to optimize program operations and clients' access to services across the continuum of care
• Develop community outreach strategies & in-reach strategies for current consumers about available services
• Ensures programmatic compliance with auditing standards and agency policies as well as regulatory bodies
• Responsible for the fiscal and human resource management related to the operations of the program
• Manage recruitment, training, and supervision of staff, as well as addressing staff performance-related issues in accordance with salient policies and procedures
• Assists with the identification, development, implementation, and completion of quality improvement projects and plans to solve problems/issues
• Represents the programs at external community meetings
• Has the responsibility for development and adherence to department budget
• Perform chart reviews and ensure completion of appropriate and timely documentation within EHR
• Collect, analyze and report data as required by the agency and CCBHC
• Manage teams on-call duties and ensure 24/7 crisis response availability
• Manage risk regarding client safety by adhering to all risk management protocols

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED:

• Master's degree or higher in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Public Administration, Nursing, Public Health, Public Policy or related field
• A minimum of 5 years post-graduate experience in behavioral health
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team and demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to assess program needs, increase efficiencies, and build teams
• Ability to develop and execute strategic plans with staff members to enhance programming

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

• Generous paid time off in addition to 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
• Hiring Rate $90,000.00

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