Program Manager

This position is the Children's Behavioral Health Collaborative Program Manager for Fairfax County, Virginia, a suburban Washington DC jurisdiction with 1.2 million residents, of whom 257,000 are children and youth. Plays a leadership role in the development, management and evaluation of programs to improve access to behavioral health services and the quality of those services for the county's children, youth and families and for leading inter-agency teams to conduct children's behavioral health needs assessments and gap analyses. This position plays a major role implementing and evaluating outcomes for the Countywide Children's Behavioral Health Plan.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the following:

(Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for "Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to")

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in social services or human services, or with major course work in a specialty that confers within a community-based service delivery setting (for example, child development and family studies, education, public administration, recreation), or other related field; plus five years of professional experience in the social services, human services, or other community-based service delivery service or setting; two of which included supervising professional staff. A master's degree in an appropriate field may be substituted for one year of the required experience.

• Experience in developing, managing and evaluating children's behavioral health projects or programs.
• Experience in convening and leading inter-agency teams, including public sector, private sector and family representatives, to conduct needs assessments and gap analyses and/or develop services and programs.

Fairfax County is home to a highly diverse population, with a significant number of residents speaking languages other than English at home (including Spanish, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indo-European, and many others.) We encourage candidates who are bilingual in English and another language to apply for this opportunity.