Executive Director

Overview

 

 

SALARY RANGE: $115,000 - $135,000 (DOE)

 

Embark Behavioral Health is a leading nationwide network of outpatient centers and residential programs offering premier mental health treatment for preteens, teens, and young adults. Our ever-growing locations are part of a continuum of care that provides a range of services built from over 25 years of specialization in serving youth. We are on a mission to lead the way in driving teen and young adult anxiety, depression, and suicide from the all-time highs of today to all-time lows of 2028.

 

Are you looking to make a difference and be part of an amazing and growing team?

Join us at Embark Behavioral Health’s short-term young adult residential treatment program in Bend, Oregon

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the leadership and staff team.
• Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of communications and systems.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities.
• Begin to build partnerships in new markets and continue to establish relationships with referral base.
• Coordinates and works with leadership team to ensure the program is staffed appropriately to serve student’s needs.
• Coordinates and works with leadership team to ensure mentors and therapists receive appropriate training to allow them to successfully work with students.
• Review quarterly programming including group schedules/programming and recreational trips.
• Coordinate with the leadership team to ensure annual calendar is implemented and running smoothly.
• Review incident and medication error reports submitted by staff and ensure all follow up is complete and training or policy change is complete if applicable.
• Emergency Action Plan: knows the steps and crisis situations to enact the EAP. 
• Appropriate professional boundaries with students, staff, and families.
• Clinical support and training as needed.
• Implement annual marketing and growth plan.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Direct multiple areas of the program including staffing, program development, and various departments (education, activity).
• Oversee daily operations of the program.
• Confer with leadership team regarding job postings, applicants, new hires, and discipline, worker’s compensation in case of incident, and ongoing personnel matters and questions.
• Develop and implement curriculums, policies, and programs.
• Conduct ongoing evaluation of status and risk assessment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Psychology, Social Work or related field. Bachelors considered if candidate has over 10 years executive leadership experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience working with adolescents and young adults presenting with mental health disorders and co-occurring disorders including substance abuse in a behavioral health setting.
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience in staff management and supervision
• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation.
• Demonstrated skills in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget (with the founders).
• Experience with working with the public, families and clients with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed.
• Refined and well-organized multi-tasking skills
• In-depth knowledge of risk management models and skills
• Current CPR/First Aid

Benefits

• Access to professional growth using our leading-edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Program that includes medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan (if selected), dental insurance, vision insurance, voluntary life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, 401K with company matching, and paid parental leave.
• Company Paid Holidays plus a PTO accrual schedule.
• Opportunity to foster relationships with young a