Community Health Program Leader - CCR

Lurie Children's Hospital•Chicago, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves in a leadership role in the Center for Childhood Resilience (CCR), a program within the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The Program Leader provides programmatic, project, and strategic leadership to CCR, including planning, coordinating, communicating, and evaluating systems and processes to enhance and further CCR's mission. This role involves building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships within Lurie Children’s and with external parties, and actively supporting the CCR team, Department, and Hospital efforts to achieve continuous quality improvement and customer service goals by modeling appropriate behavior and fostering a conducive work environment.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Social Work or related field from an accredited university.
LCSW or equivalent licensure required.
Minimum of twelve (12) years of work experience with progressive leadership, program management, and planning expertise.
Experience in school, early childhood education, child welfare, healthcare, or mental health settings required.
Demonstrated successful program management experience including developing and implementing project plans, managing individuals and teams, managing partner relationships, and serving in a range of project team roles.
Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite Word, Excel and PowerPoint presentation software and working knowledge of database technologies required.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated successful fundraising experience including state, federal and philanthropic awards, grant writing, management, and reporting preferred.
Demonstrated experience working with youth exposed to trauma and violence and living in low-opportunity and high-risk communities preferred.
Possesses excellent training and consultation skills that foster active participation and new knowledge and skill acquisition.
Proven experience successfully delivering in-person and web-based consultation and professional development to a range of professionals representing different youth-serving agencies.
Self-directed, with in-depth understanding of the organizational goals.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic project-based team environment that works to respond with flexibility to meet project needs and deadlines.
Excellent analytical, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate with individuals from different backgrounds and disciplines.

Responsibilities

Responsible for all evidence-based and evidence-informed school mental health interventions, including program development and implementation, project teams, program evaluation and quality improvement, and partner relationship management.
Accountable for the full lifecycle of grants and external funding, including proposal development, submissions, program planning, implementation, and reporting.
Spearhead local, state, and national conference submissions, including serving as lead author and supporting team members with conference submissions.
Participate as a contributing author to manuscripts, publications, and other scholarly efforts as appropriate.
Responsible to build and maintain internal and external partnerships and bridge connections across partners to foster growth and goal achievement.
Participate in staffing, recruitment, and hiring for functional areas, including recruitment and hiring in alignment with funding and budgets.
Key role in onboarding and training of new team members in collaboration with other functional areas and program leaders.
Oversees the work of program coordinators and administrative support assigned to projects and programs.
Participates in performance reviews of team members.
Leads the development and implementation of program areas, including innovation and investigation goals, in coordination with other functional and program areas.
Works to strategically grow CCR by identifying, vetting, and developing new projects, partnerships, and funding opportunities in alignment with strategic priorities.
Ensures that program areas have clear plans for investigation or quality improvement that demonstrate the impact of the work and identify areas for improvement.
Works to develop new areas of work and funding, including working with Operations to create proposals and budgets that provide adequate support for program goals in alignment with strategic priorities.
Serves as a relationship manager for key partnerships, focusing on those with high potential for impact, representing new growth opportunities, and enhancing the reputation of CCR at local, regional, and national levels.
Writes philanthropic, grant, and proposals in collaboration with partners within and outside of Lurie Children’s; ensures goals, objectives, and reporting requirements are met; supports ongoing communication with funders and potential funders and strategic partners.
Accountable for program and project staffing in alignment with program and project budgets, including selecting, onboarding, and training new team members.
Provide input in performance reviews of team members.
Promotes evidence-based practices through training and delivering supported implementation/technical assistance on clinical mental health interventions.
Participates in dissemination and quality improvement, evaluation, and research of program efforts, and scholarly activities including publishing and presenting at local, regional, and national conferences, focusing on identifying school mental health projects that have high potential for contributing to the research literature and for raising the visibility of CCR, Department, and Hospital.
Represents CCR and Lurie Children’s in public spaces, including acting as a content expert regarding matters of child and adolescent behavioral and mental matters, and by responding to media requests.
Contributes to CCR and Hospital advocacy mission through participation in local, state, and national stakeholder and advocacy boards related to mental health services and the impact of trauma and violence on children, youth, and communities.
Provides supervision and mentoring for postdoctoral fellow(s) and trainees (psychiatry fellows, psychology, and social work interns).
Participates in the educational mission of the Department and Hospital, including presentations at didactics, provides clinical supervision to designated personnel (trainees, staff, and interns) as assigned per program, completing evaluations as required.
Assumes other programmatic, operations, and administrative responsibilities as assigned.
Performs job functions adhering to service principles with a customer service focus of innovation, service excellence, and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to patients, families, co-workers, and others.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Employer paid group term life and disability
Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
403(b) with a 5% employer match
Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
Tuition assistance
Student loan servicing and support
Adoption benefits
Backup Childcare and Eldercare
Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
Discount purchasing program