Program Director

Show your passion by empowering youth and families when joining the Wayside team!

Wayside is one of Massachusetts' most respected youth and family-serving agencies, supporting more than 6,000 youth and families annually across Central, Eastern, and Northeastern regions.

We invest in our employees' wellness with comprehensive benefits, including tuition and training reimbursement, a PTO package with 3 wellness days, 9 paid holidays, and up to 3 weeks of vacation in the first year. Enjoy a learning environment with free training, CEUs, and more, along with exceptional medical benefits, financial health supports, and career development opportunities.

Apply today and earn a $2,000.00 sign-on bonus (pro-rated for part-time)!

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Parent-Peer Partnership Program

The Program Director leads a robust team of dedicated Family Support Specialists and Peer Support Specialists who serve several of Wayside’s catchment areas and are committed to using their own lived experience to provide hope to others in similar circumstances and to help others to navigate systems to attain stability and recovery. The team also includes a Coordinator of Mentoring Art. Services provided within this program include individual peer support, parent/family guidance and advocacy, support groups and recreational and skill building opportunities for young adults, support groups for parents/caregivers, self-care and psychoeducation workshops, art, community educational engagements, internal and external consultation to other professionals, and a myriad of other inspiring roles.

Salary Range: $70,000.00 - $75,000.00/year + sign-on bonus (half paid after 6 months of employment and the other half paid after 1 year of employment/pro-rated for part-time).

What You Will Do:

• Oversee creative programming development – Parent/Caregiver support services, Peer support services, Greenhouse Graphics services and growth strategies.
• Provide supervision to program staff.
• Provide oversight to agency-wide Family Partner/Family Support Specialist monthly group supervision and agency-wide Peer monthly group supervision.
• Liaison to DMH NE Child & Adolescent Director and DMH Central Child & Adolescent Director.
• Attend community engagements and consultation (System of Care Meetings, Transitional Age Youth meetings, Successfest, etc).
• Monitor, review, and manage program expenses.
• Monitor and analyze documentation, reporting, and utilization of services.
• Provide creative input and coordination with Director of Communications & Development to create program’s marketing, advertising, and promotional plans and materials.
• Hire, train, and manage personnel issues.
• Collaborate and coordinate with internal Wayside programs and external programs and agencies to increase service delivery.

Competencies/Traits of Our Superstars:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Demonstrated administrative and supervisory ability with at least two years of experience in a management role.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organizational skill
• Knowledge of special education laws. legal issues, health care insurance/system and DMH programs and resources
• Knowledge of organization and facilitation of groups.
• Ability to recognize and respond to signs of trauma in family support workers and peer workers.
• Recognizing and responding to signs of trauma in young adults and caregivers.
• Recognizing and responding to signs of suicidality in young adults and caregivers.

Minimum Requirements:

• Primary qualification is in being the parent of a youth who has been involved in the mental health system.
• High School Diploma required. College degree preferred though not required.

We Will Train You in: Motivational Interviewing; Attachment, Regulation and Competency Model (ARC); Courageous Conversations; Trauma Informed Practices.