Behavioral Health Data & Analytics Director

JBS International•North Bethesda, MD

18d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Project Director, this role leads a complex, nationally significant program supporting the collection, analysis, and use of behavioral health data. The Project Director serves as the primary point of accountability to the client and coordinates program performance across behavioral health expertise, survey operations, state data reporting, statistical analysis, technical assistance, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, public-facing services, and dissemination. The role establishes governance and management infrastructure to sustain operations, protect data integrity and confidentiality, meet schedule and budget commitments, and deliver accurate, accessible, timely, and reproducible products. The Project Director works closely with project management, technical, statistical, survey, security, implementation, accessibility, communications, and quality leaders. The position operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring two days per week onsite at JBS International headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland. The role requires a master's degree in a relevant field and at least 15 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex federal health, behavioral health, statistical, research, data systems, survey, analytics, or technology programs. A Public Trust Clearance must be attainable. The salary range is $158,750–$216,250 annually, with final compensation depending on relevant experience, education, certifications, specialized skills, contract requirements, and internal equity. The position is subject to availability of funds and restrictions in the contracts providing its funding.

Requirements

Master's degree in behavioral health, public health, statistics, survey methodology, research, information systems, business administration, public administration, or a related field.
At least 15 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex federal health, behavioral health, statistical, research, data systems, survey, analytics, or technology programs.
Senior responsibility for multi-year project delivery, client relationships, budgets, workforce performance, quality, risk, and subcontractors.
Fluency in English, both oral and written.
Ability to attain a Public Trust Clearance.
Experience leading large, multi-component federal programs of comparable complexity.
Understanding of substance use and mental health treatment service systems and the federal, state, territorial, provider, and facility environments that generate and use behavioral health data.
Ability to manage national survey operations, state administrative data collections, statistical analysis, disclosure protection, reporting, and public dissemination.
Experience leading transition, continuity of operations, risk management, quality assurance, schedule control, budget management, staffing, and transparent deliverable tracking.
Working knowledge of federal cloud modernization, Authority to Operate processes, privacy and security, Section 508 accessibility, open-source development, reproducible code, and public-domain deliverables.
Success hiring, developing, supervising, and retaining multidisciplinary teams and managing subcontractors and consultants.
Executive-level written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to explain complex data, technical, operational, and program issues to varied audiences.
Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk or computer workstation.
Regular use of a computer, keyboard, and mouse.
Standard or corrected vision to read documents, view computer screens, and perform tasks requiring visual accuracy.
Ability to hear and understand spoken information in person and over the phone.
Ability to move within the office environment to access equipment and files and interact with colleagues.
Ability to handle occasional stress related to deadlines, workloads, or challenging tasks.

Nice To Haves

Doctoral degree in a relevant field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Direct experience with behavioral health surveys, data sets, related collections and services, including federal and state systems.
Experience leading federal cloud migration or modernization in AWS or another HHS-approved cloud environment and coordinating Authority to Operate activities.
Additional relevant credentials, such as PgMP, PMI-ACP, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, AWS certification, cybersecurity certification, or a comparable credential.
Fluency in Spanish or another language relevant to stakeholder and participant support.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary point of accountability for contract performance, client outcomes, issue resolution, and mission results.
Build and maintain transparent, responsive working relationships with the client, government partners, states, territories, treatment facilities, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
Translate contractual requirements and client priorities into integrated work plans, decision structures, staffing assignments, performance measures, and deliverable schedules.
Lead executive-level meetings and provide status and decision briefings, ensuring follow-through on client direction, approvals, risks, and action items.
Lead interconnected behavioral health data programs spanning national surveys, administrative data collections, analytics, technical assistance, system modernization, and public-facing services.
Monitor results, anticipate risks, resolve challenges, and drive continuous improvement using data.
Build stakeholder-centric reporting and dashboards to support policymakers’ evidence-based decisions.
Guide national data operations, including survey administration, outreach, data submission, validation, processing, integration, quality assurance, analysis, and dissemination.
Oversee cloud modernization, cybersecurity, privacy, Authority to Operate activities, accessibility, human-centered design, and open-source development.
Strengthen state and facility capabilities through technical assistance, stakeholder engagement, and strategies to improve data quality, completeness, and timeliness.
Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams of behavioral health experts, statisticians, researchers, data analysts, technical assistance professionals, technology specialists, and project managers.
Oversee budgets, forecasts, staffing, subcontractors, consultants, and expenditure controls.
Ensure services and deliverables meet contractual, technical, security, accessibility, and documentation standards.
Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.