Job title: Executive Director — Supported Living Services (Newly Vendorized Program)
Pay: $26.00–$32.00/hour during the initial ramp depending on experience, converting to $55,000–$75,000/year as census builds, plus stipends and a launch bonus
Job type: Part-time to start, growing to full-time as census builds — see Schedule
Location: Hybrid — north Fresno (Figarden area), CA 93722 — field visits plus remote administrative work
Build a brand-new SLS program — with the hardest part already done.
California Care Connection received CVRC vendorization approval in August 2026. We are cleared to accept referrals. What we need now is the person who will go get them, and then build the program that serves them well.
If you believe adults with developmental disabilities deserve to live independent, meaningful lives in their own homes, this is a rare chance to build that from the first client forward — with the paperwork, the SOPs, and the systems already in place.
This is a foundational leadership role, not an entry-level one, and not a caretaker role over an existing program.
What makes this different
Most Executive Director openings ask you to run something someone else built. This one asks you to build it — starting with an approved vendor number, a documented operating model, a full tech stack, and administrative support already in place, so your time goes to the two things that actually matter early: Regional Center relationships and quality of service.
And there is a second program coming. CCC is adding a community-based day program — no facility, no center, small groups out in the community. The Owner and CCC's vendorization consultant handle the application and the program design; you are the program director of record, and you run it from the first consumer forward. If you have wanted to run a day program built the way it should have been built in the first place — without inheriting someone else's twenty-year-old model — that is what this is.
What you'll do
Generate referrals and grow census — this is the core of the job.
- Build and maintain working relationships with CVRC service coordinators and program managers
- Actively develop referral flow: outreach, presentations to RC teams, follow-through on placements
- Represent CCC as a provider service coordinators want to send their harder placements to
- Track and grow census toward program sustainability
Build and run the operation — then build the team that runs it.
- Recruit, hire, train and supervise Direct Support Professionals — personally at first, because there is nobody else yet
- Build and lead the management layer as census grows. Program Managers, Lead DSPs and outreach interns all report to you
- Tell us when to hire each of them. You will know the operation needs another supervisor before it shows up in the numbers, and that call is yours to make
- Stand up scheduling, supervision, and quality systems for a distributed, in-home service model
- Own program budget, labor cost, and hour utilization against authorizations
- Ensure SLS documentation, incident reporting, and Title 17 compliance
- Serve as primary CCC contact with CVRC
- Build strong relationships with clients, families, and service coordinators
- Provide crisis support and sound judgment when things don't go to plan
- Scale the program as census grows, including into additional territories
Run the community-based day program.
The Owner and CCC's vendorization consultant handle the application and the program design. Your role is to be qualified to hold it, to fill it, and to run it well.
- Serve as the program director of record under Title 17 — this is why the qualification below is a requirement rather than a preference
- Generate the referrals that fill the groups
- Recruit, train and supervise the day program staff
- Oversee vehicle readiness and driver compliance
- Own daily operations: group composition, routing, community sites, safety and documentation
Being straight about the shape of this job. For the first stretch, you are the operation — you will be doing work a Program Manager will do later, because there is no Program Manager yet. As census grows you hire one, then more, along with Lead DSPs and outreach interns, and the job shifts from doing the work to leading the people who do it. Both halves are real. If you only want the second half, this is the wrong moment to join. If you only want the first, you will outgrow the seat in a year.
Who this fits
Experienced Program Directors, Residential Directors, SLS/ILS Program Managers, Day Program Directors, or developmental services leaders ready to step up — particularly anyone who has personally grown a program's census or opened a program from zero.
Where our strongest candidates come from
This describes your background, not CCC's services — CCC delivers Supported Living Services, and is adding a community-based day program.
- Supported Living Services (SLS), Independent Living Services (ILS), or Personal Assistance (PA)
- Community-based or in-home day programs
- California Regional Center vendor programs
- Developmental disability services for adults
- Adult residential or community-based services
- Case management within the developmental services system
Minimum qualifications
Three things decide this hire. If you don't have all three, this isn't the right role — and we'd rather say that now than at your second interview.
1. You have run the operation, not coordinated it. You have personally supervised staff who deliver services to clients in their homes or in the community — built their schedule, covered the shift when someone called out on a Sunday morning, and been the person accountable when it went uncovered. If your background is only case management, care coordination, quality assurance, marketing or consulting, this one won't be met — but if you've done both, lead with the operations half.
2. You have personally grown a census or referral volume. You did it yourself, and you can name the people you talked to, what you said, and roughly what it produced.
3. Title 17 program director qualification — required, and verified from documents before your second interview. Either a bachelor's degree plus at least 18 months of management experience in a human services delivery system, or at least five years in a human services delivery system including two years in a management or supervisory role. (17 CCR §56754(a).) The day program's vendorization application has to name a director who meets this, so it is a hard requirement even though you will not be filing the application yourself.
Also required
- You have handled a serious incident and made a regulatory filing
- Strong written and verbal communication — you will represent CCC to CVRC in writing
- Professional, calm crisis response
- Reliable transportation and valid CA driver's license
- This position requires DOJ/FBI criminal background clearance (LiveScan) as a condition of employment
Preferred qualifications
- Direct experience working with a California Regional Center
- Established relationships with CVRC service coordinators and program managers
- Experience opening a program from zero, launching a new service line, or completing a Regional Center vendorization
- Bilingual English/Spanish
- Knowledge of IPP/ISP planning and SLS documentation requirements
- Experience with Therap or comparable documentation systems
- Familiarity with HCBS Final Rule settings requirements
Compensation
- $26.00–$32.00 per hour during the initial ramp, depending on experience, while the program builds its first referrals
- Your paid hours grow with census on a written formula, so your schedule expands as the program does — and you are the person with the most influence over how fast that happens
- Converts to an annual salary of $55,000–$75,000 as census builds, on defined thresholds
- Monthly leadership stipends and a day program launch bonus
- Paid training and mileage reimbursement from day one
- A $45/month allowance toward dental and vision from your first month
The whole structure is written down, and you get all of it. We will hand you the complete compensation plan — every formula, threshold and dollar figure — at your first interview, before we ask you for anything. Nothing is held back until after an offer, and nothing about it is discretionary.Schedule and ramp
Hybrid — field visits plus remote administrative work, with office space in north Fresno (Figarden area) available to you.
Being straight with you about the first phase: we are newly vendorized and do not yet have consumers in service. The role begins part-time and hourly — around 16–18 hours a week at the start — then grows on a written formula and converts to full-time salary as census builds. Because the ED drives referral development, you have real influence over how quickly that happens.
Two kinds of people make this work, and we are open to both. Some candidates have other income — consulting, a part-time role, semi-retirement — and treat this as the thing they are building. Others are between roles and make this their full focus from day one. Either is fine. What the role does require is that your weekday daytime hours are genuinely your own, because CVRC's Vendor Advisory Committee meets Tuesday mornings, IPP meetings are scheduled by service coordinators, and the single most valuable habit in this job is answering a coordinator within four business hours.
Occasional on-call leadership availability required.
What we offer
- A leadership role with genuine influence over how the program is built — including a second program line to run from its first day
- Documented SOPs, a modern tech stack, and administrative support so your time goes to the field
- A $45/month allowance toward dental and vision from your first month
- Paid time off, beginning at the transition to salary
- Retirement savings through CalSavers (payroll deduction; no employer contribution at this time)
- A clear path to multi-region executive leadership as we expand beyond Fresno
How to apply
Submit your resume along with a short statement (a few paragraphs is plenty) answering:
"Describe a time you personally grew a program's census or client base. What did you actually do, and what happened?"
We review applications quickly and contact strong candidates promptly.
California Care Connection is an equal opportunity employer.
Pay: $26.00 - $32.00 per hour
Expected hours: 16.0 – 18.0 per week
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Paid orientation
Application Question(s):
- Have you personally been responsible for generating client referrals or growing a program's census?
1) Yes, directly
2) Contributed as part of a team
3) No
- Which describes you? (Required for the program director role)
1) Bachelor's degree and 18+ months managing in a human services organization
2) 5+ years in human services including 2+ years in a management or supervisory role
3) Both
4) Neither
- This role begins part-time and hourly — around 16–18 hours a week — before transitioning to full-time salary as census builds. Does that work for your situation?
1) Yes
2) No
3) Would like to discuss
- This role needs you at Tuesday-morning meetings and returning coordinator calls within 4 business hours, every week.
1) No problem, my weekdays are genuinely open.
2) It's workable. I have another commitment but real daytime flexibility.
3) That's a problem as I have fixed weekday commitments.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Fresno, CA 93722
