Are you an experienced behavioral health leader who would like to use your educational leadership experience and collaborative skills focusing on the greater good with and furthering the growth and reputation of our organization?

Devereux Education Strategies and Solutions, (DESS), a division of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health is seeking a highly collaborative and experienced leader responsible for managing and promoting the Devereux Center for Effective Schools (CES) programs. In this position you will work collaboratively with the program’s Director to manage projects and coordinate tasks across project team, deliver school-based consultation and training, conduct research, and seek funding opportunities to support best practices implementation in schools.  this key position will provide oversight, direction, consultation and direct support to schools, educators, in evidence-based interventions and prevention and services that represent school district needs. In this role this key individual will serve as the face of, and further the reputation of Devereux through service provision, participating in regional and national professional organizations and presentations, conducting research and publishing or supporting the development of publications and demonstrate clinical best practices. The creative candidate we are seeking will pursue funding opportunities, and manage outcomes for services provided and actively market those outcomes to promote departmental growth, developing new service lines, including direct services, oversee the recruitment and orientation of interns and serve as the face of, and further Devereux’s reputation. This position will be hybrid, working from home, with the ability to travel in close proximity to Philadelphia and surrounding locations.

We invite you to bring your clinical, programmatic and administrative skills and experiences to Devereux’s DESS team.

In this impactful role, you will:

• Further the development of others and values the diversity in others conducive to the development of creative ideas and actions
  • Seek new opportunities to enhance services and remain current with best practices.
  • Act to develop systems and monitor to ensure quality programming, regulatory compliance, and exceptional internal and external customer service.
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to further the Devereux Brand and business development opportunities, including service line expansions supported by our strategic plan.
  • Help to oversee the development and maintenance of a positive work environment designed to attract and retain a stable, progressive, caring and diverse workforce needed to ensure the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective services.

Center for Effective Schools: www.centerforeffectiveschools.org

The mission of the Center for Effective Schools (CES) is to build capacity in schools for serving children with, or at-risk for developing, emotional and behavioral disorders. This mission is accomplished through training, consultation, new model program development, and applied research. The CES subscribes to a multi-tiered (universal, secondary, and tertiary) prevention and intervention approach to service delivery. Populations served through CES include, but are not limited to, students and staff within primary and secondary public schools and districts; parents of school-aged children; pre-referral intervention teams; intermediate units; approved private day schools; and other non-profit organizations focused on education and violence prevention. Services include training and technical assistance for School-wide Positive Behavior Support, class-wide positive behavior support including Strengthening Emotional Support Services for emotional support classrooms, interventions for non-classroom settings including the Lunchroom Behavior Game, Response-to-Intervention, as well as individual student services including Functional Behavior Assessment, Curriculum Based Measurement, and general academic and behavioral assessment to generate empirically based behavior and academic support plans. CES staff members pride themselves on being consumer-driven by developing programs that are tailored to meet the needs of the individual, schools, and districts they serve.

Interested in advancing your career? Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to $15k reimbursed annually for undergraduate and $25k reimbursed annually for graduate) and student loan repayment!  Learn more here.                              

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Doctoral degree in school (preferred), clinical or counseling psychology, special education or related field required;

- Advanced training in research design, methodology, statistics and computer applications is required;

- PA Psychologist license or license eligible preferred;

- Supervisory experience with junior-level department staff and trainees;

- 5 (five) years’ experience in a school or university setting.

- 3 (three) years’ experience in a senior-level role (e.g., Consulting/Research Psychologist). Devereux CES experience preferred;

- Demonstrated experience and success in research and analysis, and obtaining external funding;

- Proven record of presenting and training experience, including local and national presentations;

- Exceptional organizational, communication and customer service skills are essential.
- Knowledge of Microsoft systems (especially Excel and PowerPoint) required; knowledge of Power BI advantageous.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer 

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.