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PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Children's Mental Health

Strive and Brief Treatment Services

$80,000 annual salary

Who You Are:

+ Master’s Degree in Social Work preferred, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, or Education with a Clinical Concentration Licensure accepted.

+ Candidates must be license-eligible for independent clinical licensure in Massachusetts (LICSW, LMHC, or LMFT).

+ Five years of experience working with youth with serious emotional and behavioral health challenges and their families.

+ At least 2 years supervisory experience.

+ Knowledge of Children’s Mental Health Services including experience providing Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) services or similar DMH Services.

+ Comfort discussing sensitive topics, including sexual health, in a professional, age-appropriate and medically accurate manner.

+ Experience facilitating youth-based groups.

+ Strong leadership, organizational, communication, writing and supervisory skills.

+ Bilingual/bicultural, experience working with youth with behavioral challenges, lived experience and knowledge of EBP models preferred.

+ Valid MA driver’s license and reliable transportation required.

What You Will Do:

The Group Leader and Program Director plays a dual leadership role, combining direct service delivery with strategic program oversight. As Group Leader for the STRIVE Initiative, this position is responsible for implementing high-quality, evidence-based group programming for adolescents aged 10–15, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed care, and equity for historically marginalized youth.

In their capacity as Program Director of the Brief Treatment program, the individual provides overall leadership and clinical oversight, including staff supervision, hiring, team building, and fostering the development of clinical skills across the team. This role also serves as the primary liaison with the Department of Mental Health, coordinates referrals, and acts as the first point of contact for families and youth. Additionally, the Program Director shares back-up and on-call clinical responsibilities with other Children’s Services managers.

Who We Are:

A dedicated team of professionals who have chosen to join an organization with a forty year history of serving people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, brain injury and autism in the community. When we’re not at work, we love to hike, bike, craft, read, shop and sing opera, among many other things! Our staff of 350 have range of interests and skills and we know you do too! We know that The Edinburg Center will mean as much to you as it does to us!

At work, we are psychiatrists, social workers, clinicians, nurses, behavior specialists, peer specialists, board certified behavior analysts, direct service staff and employment specialists.

What We Offer:

We offer an excellent benefits package for both full and part-time staff, including health and dental (must work a minimum of 30 hours) vision, life, short- and long-term disability insurance as well as a 401(k)-retirement savings plan. Paid time off benefits include vacation, personal, sick and holidays. To support ongoing professional development, we offer tuition reimbursement, conference, seminar, certification, and specialized training funding, as well as free clinical supervision for licensure.

We think the best benefit we offer is the chance to learn from each other and we hope you will be willing to teach us as well.

Be YOU! We are committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse environment for our employees and the people we serve. Persons from diverse backgrounds including women, communities of color, the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The Edinburg Center, Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer