Position Summary: At Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch (YBGR), the Program Supervisor for the Therapeutic Group Home (TGH) program is a leader, mentor, and advocate—guiding teams that create stability, healing, and growth for youth with complex needs. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on collaboration, ensuring therapeutic services are delivered with consistency, compassion, and excellence.
As the Program Supervisor, you’ll lead and support TGH Managers and their teams in building safe, structured, and nurturing environments where youth can develop resilience, strengthen relationships, and reach meaningful treatment goals. Working closely with multidisciplinary partners, you will drive program quality, staff development, and operational success while advancing YBGR’s mission of empowering youth and families to thrive.
Starting Salary Range: $1,960.02 - $2,206.02 per pay period. Salary reflects steps 1-5 of an 11-step pay schedule. The starting salary will be determined based on the applicant’s education and relevant experience.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
Plans and directs work, ensuring that work schedules are adhered to and assigning specific duties to subordinate staff.
Responsible for interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and training employees. Conducts staff evaluations, job performance management (including coaching/counseling), and corrective action.
Responsible for ensuring appropriate staff training and education programs are provided. Schedule and conduct regular staff meetings.
Demonstrates effective management of a team toward achievement of goals, including appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Monitor staff performance, provide feedback and guidance to Therapeutic Group Home Managers, ensuring that all staff members are professionally trained and certified and that the milieu program follows YBGR policies and is consistent with YBGR treatment philosophy.
Ensure youth in assigned group homes are properly funded by monitoring funding sources and eligibility, and by ensuring all required documentation is submitted to obtain and maintain funding
Provide leadership for assigned group homes to include programming needs, quality treatment, and budget compliance
Ensure a safe environment for youth that allows for quality care to achieve their treatment goals.
Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation, when necessary, as part of the regular delivery of services or through an as needed or on-call basis.
Responsible for various administrative areas involving but not limited to scheduling, supervision, budgetary and fiscal matters, and other areas assigned.
Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with the families and collaterals of the residents.
Work environment: This position will generally work indoors in a climate-controlled environment but occasionally will work in an outdoor environment where they may not be protected from weather conditions.
Will occasionally be required to remain in a stationary position for an extended period of time while performing administrative duties.
Will frequently operate computer, keyboard, and other office equipment.
Consistently needs to move about inside building, outside to include uneven terrain, changes in elevation, and frequently change body position from and to standing, kneeling, sitting, and prone.
Occasionally will be required to assist in the physical restraint of a youth (50-300lbs) who is a safety risk to themselves or others.
The person in this position will constantly communicate with clients, their treatment team, and others. Must be able to communicate accurate information and accurately understand information communicated by those individuals.
Must be able to perceive, recognize, and observe client’s behavior to include non-verbal cues expressed by the client.
Conditions can be high stress during de-escalation or restraint of physically out of control youth.
