ABA Assistant Director of Center Services

Drive operational excellence in ABA center: Assistant Director Needed!

***$5,000 Retention Bonus Available***

Come join our team! This position is for our Winston-Salem location.

A Bridge to Achievement is seeking a Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) to be our Assistant Center Director for our Winston-Salem location. We are looking for a BCBA who is passionate about providing and implementing ethical, assent-based, evidence-based interventions to autistic children and autistic young adults (ages 2 to 21 years).

The Assistant Director of Center Services supports all daily operations and clinical support of their assigned center. This role implements and maintains center protocols related to behavior analytic training methods and is responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of learners’ person-centered plans to ensure they are maximally effective.  This position ensures center based services align with best practices, agency values, and ethical guidelines, as well assists with all clinical QA standards. 

Our services are mainly center-based, with a few home and/or community sessions if needed.

Who is ABtA?

A Bridge to Achievement is a rapidly growing agency that provides family-centered Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services, emphasizing the future of children with ASD and their families. Our expert team of Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and highly trained behavior technicians use evidence-based ABA methods to teach children social, communication, play, cognitive, and self-care skills, while reducing problem behaviors in a variety of settings based on the family needs.

A Bridge to Achievement is dedicated to providing the highest quality ABA therapy for the learners we serve as well as superior levels of customer service for their families. Established by professionals with over 20 years of experience in the autism field, and led by Behavior Analysts with over 40+ years of combined experience in the field of ABA, A Bridge to Achievement is committed to meeting the needs, hopes and goals of autistic individuals and their families in the Charlotte and Winston-Salem communities.

At ABtA, we understand that ASD has a dramatic and lifelong impact on individuals with this diagnosis and their families. We partner with parents to understand their children by identifying their strengths, interests, and learning styles. Using ABA and other evidence-based techniques, our highly-trained clinicians focus on therapies and interventions that use positive reinforcement to teach the children we support to reach their full potential. We then integrate our services in a variety of settings striving to create the most effective learning experience and promote positive change across all aspects of the lives of the children we serve and their families.

Why should you choose a career with ABtA?

Our unique organizational approach to our administrative processes allows those familiar with the ABA or ASD field an opportunity to expand their (or switch to!) non-clinical career. By joining the ABtA Admin Department, you will help contribute to the overall success of our learners, centers, and agency through the integral job duties listed below.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, manage and train behavior analysts within the clinical department at their assigned center by providing guidance, mentorship, and strategic feedback to ensure individual department success and quality.
• Supports the daily clinical operations and emergencies of their assigned center 
• Assists the clinical department in staff supervision, training, and development
• Observes and overlaps learner sessions to ensure proper implementation of protocols and procedures by both technician and behavior  analyst 
• Monitor and mediate concerns among behavior technicians or behavior analysts 
• Assists with quarterly clinical Quality Assurance (QA) standards 
• Conducts initial review of treatment plans, assessment reports, BIPs, and clinical protocols for all assigned learners in their center and provides feedback for quality assurance
• Administers Clinical Training Plan for BCBAs and oversees administration of this for BTs
• Analyzes effectiveness of staff training activities or materials and provides ideas for agency trainings to clinical leadership 
• Completes CASP skill checklist with all incoming BTs/RBTs in their assigned center and identifies additional areas of improvement for each staff member
• Ensures consistency and continuity of policies and procedures throughout the agency and reports barriers and solutions to clinical leadership 
• Point of contact for ancillary providers visiting the center and collaborates with other departments to ensure services follow agency requirements 

• Adheres to the BACB’s Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for Behavior Analysts and CASP ASD guidelines and closely adheres to all funder/billing guidelines

In addition to the duties above, This position will maintain a small caseload and/or billable hour requirement and must follow agency requirements for BCBA job responsibilities while completing those duties.

TOP 10 REASONS WHY A BRIDGE TO ACHIEVEMENT IS THE RIGHT CAREER CHOICE FOR YOU:

1- A (REAL) Balanced Personal and Professional Life – You are the backbone of our organization and we want you to be happy, so we do our very best to accommodate your needs and requests. At ABtA not only do we respect a harmonious work/life balance, we promote and encourage it! We strive to create and nurture a culture where our employees feel supported, appreciated, heard, reinforced, and able to achieve a work-life balance that works for them.

Some of the benefits we offer include flex time, generous PTO, small caseloads and billable hour requirements, and internal trainings and initiatives to promote self-care, burnout prevention and management. We also offer a tiered structure of billable hour requirements, so that you can choose what works for you. All with full-time benefits and access to pay-for-performance bonuses!

• Tier A+: 25 billable hours per week
• Tier A: 22 billable hours per week
• Tier B: 19 billable hours per week
• Tier C: 16.5 billable hours per week

Tiers align with salaries that are pro-rated, based on percentage of billable hour expectations.

2- Empowered Corporate Culture – Our leadership team is composed of BCBAs. This means that our corporate decisions are always approached with a behavior analytic eye. We know what it means to be a BCBA and a BT, so we work hard to ensure an ethical, balanced, happy, collaborative, and supportive culture!

3- Clear Career Path with Commitment to Training and Development – We are strongly committed to professional development and promotions from within to increase job satisfaction and employee growth. We pride ourselves on the many employees who have grown their careers with us and continue to do so, as well as our extremely low turnover rate forall positions. Our growing company offers continuous and structured growth potential to achieve your career goals: We want to be your dream job, and we are working hard to grow professionally alongside you!

4- Full Administrative Staff Support – You can focus exclusively on the children and families you serve while our support team manages all administrative paperwork. ABtA has an intake department, a training department, a scheduling department, a center administrative support department, and we outsource billing!

5- Our Mission and Core Values-We are proud of our mission and core values and believe that these set us apart as an ABA agency. We ensure that our everyday actions always align with these values: Inclusiveness, dignity and compassion, integrity and ethical responsibility, excellence, evidence-based programs, learner-centered, family-centered, and positive work environment. (Go to https://abridgetoachievement.com/about-us to learn more).

6- Advanced Technology – Behavior technicians upload data to our electronic records management system daily, making it easy for you to collect, analyze and utilize data to make effective programming decisions. We also utilize virtual/online assessment portals for our learners (VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, EFL, AFLS, etc.), although we also have paper and pencil formats for any old-school BCBAs.

7- No non-compete clauses – At ABtA we believe and encourage collaboration among ourselves, ancillary providers, and other providers and agencies in the field of ABA. We do not believe in non-competes! We believe in building a workplace that you never want to leave because you love it here, not because you are being forced to stay!

8- Commitment to assent-based, ethical, compassionate, and best practice guidelines– We closely adhere to our Professional and Ethical Compliance Code: We are an agency that is focused on responsible and ethical growth, where the emphasis is on the quality of services and never the quantity. We offer:

• A generous investment in professional development
• Monthly BCBA and LPA collaboration and supervision meetings
• Formal BCBA Mentorship Program
• Formal Trainee Program
• Free internal CEU events and professional development book clubs
• A thorough Quality Assurance systems in place to ensure high quality and ethical practices are consistently implemented
• Promote internal and external collaborations to broaden our team members’ scope of competence
• Ensure that we remain abreast with the most current ABA technologies and research.

9- We value our employee’s feedback, and use it to continuously shape and build a company we are all proud of– At ABtA, we have an open-door policy, and you have direct access to our leadership team who are eager to explore your suggestions and ideas for company improvement. Many of our corporate decisions and benefits are the result of our own employees' ideas and suggestions. We conduct bi-annual 360 reviews, regular BT and BCBA roundtables, and regular company meetings and surveys to assess how we are doing as employers. See what our own employees are saying about us and our culture!

10- Our Exceptional Benefits:

• See below under benefits!

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's or doctoral degree in Psychology, Applied Behavior Analysis, Organizational Development, or a related field required 
• Maintains NC (and other relevant) behavior analyst licensure per the licensing board(s) requirements
• State Behavior Analyst license if relevant/residing outside of NC required 

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) in good standing with at least 2 years of full-time experience as a BCBA preferred
• Must be an approved supervisor for trainees accruing fieldwork hours per the BACB, with a minimum of 1-year of experience post-certification acting as a supervisor for trainees

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Learner and employee-focused individual with a commitment to fostering development, engagement and retention throughout practices within the agency 
• Demonstrated commitment to upholding ethical standards and promoting a positive workplace culture characterized by fairness, respect, and inclusivity.
• Ability to work effectively and stay solution oriented within a fast paced, changing environment
• A collaborative management style with strong communication to lead a high functioning team 
• Proven ability to work effectively cross-functionally within all levels in the organization.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and G Suite and Central Reach or similar ABA EMR software.
• Proven organizational skills through strong time management and excellent attention to detail 
• Ability to facilitate constructive dialogue, mediate conflicts, and negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Proficient at conducting assessments such as VB-MAPP, Vineland, ABLLS, FBAs, and writing assessment reports.
• Skilled at writing behavior reduction and skill acquisition programs
• Demonstrated ability to handle challenging behaviors

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Behavior Analysts and Behavior Technicians

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to observe and move with children in their natural environments (e.g. ABtA center, home, school and/or outside or in community) 
• Must be able to demonstrate working and playing with children; must be able to sit on floor on ground and move easily in this capacity 
• Must be able to perform the following gross motor activities: 
• Climbing (e.g. upon playground equipment) 
• Bending over (e.g. to assist child with writing or pick up reinforcers off ground) 
• Squatting (e.g. to assist child putting on shoes) 
• Running (e.g. running through a sprinkler with a child) 
• Carrying (e.g. teaching materials, toys, art supplies) up to 15lbs 
• Must be able to perform the following fine motor activities: 
• Pincer grasp (e.g. manipulation of teaching PECS icons) 
• Writing (ex. Filling out paper form with a pencil or pen) 
• Using scissors and various craft supplies 
• Grasping objects (e.g. keys, door knobs, etc)
• Twisting of hands/wrist or fingers (e.g. Tying Shoes, fastening a button, using a zipper, etc) 
• Must be able to demonstrate working and playing with children; must be able to sit on floor on ground and move easily in this capacity 
• Must be able to lift children up to 50lbs
• Must be able to utilize safe non-violent crisis intervention techniques with program participants of all ages (raising arms above head to block, stepping back, reaching behind shoulders, etc) 
• Must be able to teach and assist with toileting skills. (eg. changing diapers, lifting on an off toilet) 
• Must be able to utilize a company tablet or cellular device (ex. IPad, Samsung, IPhone) to take session note data
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard  
• Travel Requirement up to 25%

Work Environment:

This position works primarily out of a climate-controlled ABtA center/office location that complies with all relevant safety and accessibility regulations. This position works primarily indoors, but some locations may have an outdoor playground which would expose the employee to natural elements when working with learners who have transitioned outdoors. Employees are expected to contribute to maintaining cleanliness and tidiness in shared areas while at the office. Employees may be subject to various noise conditions based on room usage, room type and the use of radio systems to communicate across the building. Employees are expected to assist learners in the bathroom for toilet training and diaper changing.

While the role primarily involves office/center-based work, occasional opportunities for remote work may be available, subject to manager approval and job requirements. Remote work offers the flexibility to work from any location with a stable internet connection that has minimal distraction with adaptable technology needed.

Benefits

10- Our Exceptional Benefits:

• Competitive and transparent pay with lower billable hour requirements
• Generous PTO:
• Ten (10) paid holidays
• Two (2) weeks of Paid Time Off (which increases with every employee year)
• One (1) week of Paid Self-Care Time Off
• Shared PTO policy
• Generous professional development allowance (which increases with every employee year)
• Covered NC-ABA registration, CEU fees, and lodging (if living more than 1 hour from conference site)-PLUS no need to use PTO to attend the conference!
• Internal Free CEU events
• Mileage reimbursement policy for BCBAs (although most learners receive center-based services)
• Quarterly bonus incentives for exceeding billable hour guidelines while maintaining quality standards
• Mentorship and collaboration for all BCBAs, including our formal BCBA Mentorship Program
• Flexible schedule
• Agency laptop provided, and choice of Agency Phone or Phone Stipend
• Professional liability coverage
• Amazing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for all employees (plus their partners and dependents) which includes counseling services, financial services, legal services, discounts and more!
• Healthcare Insurance Options (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life)
• Ancillary Insurance Options through Aflac (STD, LTD, and more!)
• 401k Retirement Plan with a company match
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
• Agency social events
• Exceptional benefits for our BTs (because our BTs deserve it!)- Happy BTs: Happy learners, happy parents and happy BCBAs!
• Our BTs have a consistent (30+) hours policy
• They get paid drive time AND mileage reimbursement policy
• They get exceptional pay!
• They get full benefits (401(k) with company match, health insurance, etc.)
• They have PTO, paid holidays, AND Paid Self care
• We have career growth opportunities for BTs and trainees, including a formal trainee program

Compensation Range:

• $85,000-95,000