PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Provide leadership and organizational management in the following areas: behavior-analytic programming,
supervision of Clinical Behavior Specialists (CBSs) and their team of Behavior Technicians (BTs), staff
development, parent training, and strategic growth.
SUMMARY:
Under the supervision of the Director of ABA/Autism Services, the Program Manager provides
clinical supervision, consultation, and parent training/education to families, children, and ABA team
members in the ESNG Child Development Centers and Babies Cant Wait. The Program Manager oversees
CBSs who provide developmental and autism related services and oversee a team of BTs. The Program
Manager also participates in strategic growth efforts across various ESNG locations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to):
Behavior Standard 50% of Position
- Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get
along with customers, clients, co-workers, and management and families.
Attendance Standard
- Maintains excellent punctuality and attendance
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives.
- Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement.
- Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance.
- Oversee multiple ABA teams ensuring program goals are reached.
- Maintain a small caseload, create behavior programs based on the principles of ABA, and conduct
behavior assessments when needed.
- Assist Clinical Behavior Specialists with daily and weekly oversight of treatment plans, behavior
assessments, staff training, and session coverage at assigned location(s).
- Provide case coverage for assigned team as needed.
- Provide parent education, develop and deliver specific intervention activities according to the
treatment plan, and monitor development of children in natural settings.
- Uses communication systems in a manner that ensures the timely dissemination and receipt of
information and delivery of services.
- Enhances awareness and understanding of child development and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
and services in order to support school readiness.
- Provide oversight for services in the Babies Cant Wait (BCW) and Child Development Center
Programs to children and families that have a suspected or confirmed ASD diagnosis.
- Provide quarterly workshops in conjunction with ABA team members for parents and caregivers
across ESNG.
- Provides coaching and other direct instructional supports including, but not limited to, practicum
supervision/teaching, classroom-based instruction, and in-service instruction to other support
professionals.
- Collaborates across multidisciplinary team settings.
- Assists with completion of quarterly and annual reports.
- Responsible for regularly scheduled case reviews with the Clinical Behavior Specialists and Director.
- Participates in regularly scheduled clinical supervision and consultation with the Clinical Behavior
Specialists and Director.
- Follows best practices and remains up to date with research as related to cases.
CONTENT AREA RESOURCE
- Serves as a resource for Babies Cant Wait and Child Development Center Teams
- Provides consultation to community providers and attends weekly team meetings
- Provides oversight to the CBS(s) to ensure the timely completion of appropriate treatment of
children with ASD.
LEARNING and GROWTH
- Lead/attend meetings and conduct on-going staff trainings.
- Lead/attend meetings and conduct on-going caregiver workshops.
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
- Participates in regular meetings with Babies Cant Wait and/or Child Development Center Staff to
ensure the smooth delivery of services and transition plans as needed.
- Seeks out community resources that would provide additional revenue to enhance services for
children.
- Collaborates with community organizations including but not limited to Babies Cant Wait to ensure
that the recruitment effort includes children who have severe disabilities and other special needs.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- The ability to stand for sustained periods of time.
- The ability to sit for sustained periods of time.
- The ability to walk for sustained periods of time including responding quickly to safety concerns
- The ability to use hands and fingers to feel, operate a computer, and perform picking, pinching and
whole hand or arm handling tasks.
- The ability to climb stairs.
- The ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, sit on the floor, or crawl as needed when working with small
children on their level.
- The ability to reach, extending arms in any direction.
- The ability to push or pull objects weighing > 25 pounds.
- The ability to lift and carry a child up to age 5
- The ability to talk in order to accurately exchange information.
- The ability to hear in order to accurately exchange information.
- The ability to see clearly in order to maintain child safety and supervision, use a computer, and for
extensive reading and writing.
- The ability to work in both indoor conditions and outdoor conditions.
- The ability to travel between ESNG locations
OTHER DUTIES:
- Performs other duties as assigned by management.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in early childhood
education/development, early childhood special education, applied behavior analysis, psychology or related field.
- Must be a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).
- Must have at least five years of professional experience as a BCBA working with children with
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
- Expertise in approaches to intervention based on the science of Applied Behavior Analysis.
- Competent in employing and directing behavior analytic methodologies including Verbal Behavior,
Natural Environment Teaching (NET), and Discrete Trail Teaching (DTT), and Behavior Skills Training
(BST).
- Must have a minimum of three years experience managing a team of BCBAs in person.
- Must have a minimum of five years experience providing parent training in person and via
telehealth.
- Expert knowledge of scientifically-validated methodologies and approaches found to benefit
children with ASD; familiar with current related research findings.
- Ability to demonstrate competence in behavior management skills, instructional skills, oral and
written communication, organizational skills and interpersonal relations
- Familiar with the field of early intervention and early childhood educations; knowledge of other
community resources and agencies that serve children.
- Ability to maintain customer service orientation and professionalism in all interactions.
- Strong clinical, administrative, and leadership skills; customer service orientated and professional.
- Very good working knowledge in all applicable computer programs (Microsoft Office).
- Must pass background/fingerprint clearance and associated trainings through BCW.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the assigned functions
responsibly.
- Must possess effective communications skills.
- Must possess the ability to manage time effectively.
- Must possess the ability to establish working relationships within the community.
- Must possess knowledge of the fundamentals of early childhood development, curriculum
development and implementation, classroom management and inclusion of children with special
needs.
- Must possess the ability to operate a business computer.
- Must possess reliable access to broadband internet
- Must possess reliable access to smartphones and/or computers.
- Must possess reliable access to private spaces to carry out telehealth visits.
- Must have an understanding of and engagement with telehealth as a safe and effective modality of
care.
THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME
CERTIFICATIONS: BCBA
