Lead Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Gracent • St. Charles, IL

2d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Onsite

About The Position

We are opening a brand-new pediatric therapy center in St. Charles and are looking for a Lead BCBA to help build it from the ground up. This role offers the opportunity to shape the clinical culture, develop the team, support the launch, and have a voice in the center's growth, while also advancing your own career. The Lead BCBA role is for someone who wants to stay deeply connected to clinical work while taking on more leadership, mentorship, and ownership. You will continue managing your own clients and making clinical decisions, while also helping develop BCBAs and RBTs, supporting families, contributing to center growth, and using data to help your center perform at its best. As a Lead BCBA, you will be a clinical resource for your team, helping newer BCBAs with challenging cases, mentoring RBTs and BCBA students, supporting onboarding and training, and partnering with your Area Director to maintain a high clinical standard across the center. This role involves maintaining direct clinical accountability while taking on additional responsibility for the people and the center. You will conduct assessments, develop treatment plans, provide parent training, supervise RBTs/BTs, and continue doing clinical work. Additionally, you will assist with hiring, mentor and onboard clinicians, support family tours and community outreach, and use data to identify opportunities to improve center performance. For strong performers, this role can be a path toward Clinical Director, or open opportunities to support new center development, growing centers, high-capacity Clinical Directors, or provide leadership coverage for other centers.

Requirements

• BCBA certification, licensed in IL and in good standing
• Strong clinical judgment and clear, proactive communication
• A genuine interest in mentoring and developing other clinicians
• Minimum 2 years of applied experience as a BCBA
• Ability to perform essential functions such as sitting, standing, bending, and occasionally lifting up to 45 lbs. Reasonable accommodations may be made.

Responsibilities

• Maintain direct clinical accountability by conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, providing parent training, and supervising RBTs/BTs.
• Provide clinical mentorship and support to BCBAs and RBTs.
• Mentor and onboard newer BCBAs and support their continued clinical development.
• Assist with hiring and help build a strong clinical team.
• Partner with the Area Director on clinical quality, team development, and center priorities.
• Use Power BI data to identify opportunities around makeups, unconverted hours, follow-ups, and center performance.
• Support marketing, community outreach, and family tours.
• Partner with families and help ensure a positive experience throughout their child's care.
• Collaborate with SLPs, OTs, PTs, and mental health providers to provide truly interdisciplinary care.
• Support new center development, high-capacity centers, or other centers when additional clinical leadership is needed.

Benefits

• 75% company-paid medical/dental/vision
• 401(k) match
• $500 PD stipend
• free in-house CEUs (BACB ACE Provider)
• 25+ days off year one
• Competitive base, plus a $50/hour bonus for billable hours above 29/week, paid biweekly

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level