Vice President Of Thriving Families - (Full-Time) ($120K - $150K)

At Beech Acres Parenting Center, we uncover the natural gifts of children by unleashing the power of parents and caregivers. As a contemporary parenting center, Beech Acres serves over 30,000 people annually through a wide range of services including foster care, kinship care, adoption, behavioral health support in schools, parent coaching and much more. All of our programs are founded in our Natural Strength Parenting™ framework which enables parents to unlock their own potential by building on their unique strengths. For more information, visit www.beechacres.org

Why you will love working at Beech Acres

Culture That Matters

Intentional. Strength-Based. Mindful.

At Beech Acres Parenting Center we are empowering parents and strengthening kids together. A career at Beech Acres will help you discern your unique purpose, discover and develop your own natural strengths, and learn to be present, fully engaged and accepting in the moment. It’s how we empower our families and it’s how we empower each other.

We're a spirited team that believes in having fun and making an impact in our community and beyond. We’ve built a culture that values our team members’ strengths where we embrace our differences and live the value of Inclusion to all. We believe that cultivating a feeling of belonging among our employees, partners, children and adults in a child’s world begins with a just, equitable and diverse organization. We work towards this through our policies, practices, and our daily personal interaction. Beyond that, we aspire to influence the systems and communities in which we do our work by providing thought leadership, co-creation, advocacy, and support.

That’s culture that matters.

Our Perks at Work

• At Beech Acres, we take pride in offering you a competitive benefits package, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and other benefits. Your total compensation includes benefits that go beyond wages and are provided to you. Our Perks at Work includes a Bonus Points recognition, Cell Phone Reimbursements, Flexibility in the way that you work, paid leave plans, and best in the city Paid time off plans amongst many others.
• Beech Acres success is dependent upon our people, and our total rewards are designed to create and sustain an environment that encourages and rewards outstanding commitment to client service, personal accountability and the achievement of results. We believe working here offers more value and rewards than just your total compensation. We work in an environment that encourages commitment, spirit and collaboration and we provide outstanding results to our community. We are committed to not only our mission but to your growth and development as an employee and individual.

If you have what it takes and have the heart and passion for helping support families and children, then we invite you to apply to be part of positive change in schools, pediatric offices, workplaces, and our community!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Create a system of care for Foster Care families, Kinship families, Visitation, Parent Coaching and Education.

Functional Leadership Role

• Translate agency vision into effective strategies
• Provide resources to enable team’s best work
• Use data to inform practice and outcomes
• Embrace and encourage Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Set clear expectations
• Establish and achieve measurable impact goals
• Build a high performing team that drives for positive measurable results

Be a Full Member of the Business Team

• Partner and collaborate with local and state decision makers to stay abreast of and influence system changes.
• Maintain and advance effective client relationships with partners to ensure ongoing program success and positive relationships.
• Manage program budgets by ensuring monthly, quarterly, and annual targets and thresholds are met. Ensure ebbs and flows within the programs and services are managed. Partners with CFO to reforecast resource allocation as needed.
• Provide leadership and strategic guidance to promote department outcomes that are in alignment with the organizational priorities of Beech Acres’ mission, brand, revenue maximization and customer value proposition.
• Promotes agency culture that embodies the values of High Quality, Data Informed Innovation to Achieve Positive Outcomes, Compassionate Service, Transformative DEI, Collaborative Team Culture, and Natural Strength Parenting
• Model the vision, mission, and values of Beech Acres Parenting Center.

Drive Functional Excellence

• Design and drive the business model for parent coaching with finance and marketing.
• Co-create with the program directors standard operating practices across programs as appropriate.
• Establish operational plans, procedures, staffing, and policies, at all levels within programs.
• Solicit feedback from funders, external stakeholders, foster parents, physicians, kinship providers and other partners to assess BAPC’s services and partnerships.
• Ensure achievement of programmatic and financial outcomes, while meeting licensing and other requirements for Foster Care and Kinship Care.
• Establish, implement, and monitor systems that enable and support successful service delivery and adherence to ODMHAS, COA and Beech Acres standards and protocols. Participate in quality assurance and improvement activities, work groups and related efforts including auditing and outcome/evaluation monitoring.
• Provide oversight and maintain accountability for program’s achievement of performance goals including measurable outcomes, client satisfaction, persons served, financial targets, common caseload-specific results, and employee development.
• Lead the mission of Parent Education and Coaching, Foster Care and Adoption, Kinship Care, and visitation.
• Create new and innovative ways to recruit Foster Care families, Kinship families, physician offices and businesses.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and participation with program directors to ensure effective key account relationships with physician offices, businesses, government entities, community partners, foster parents, kinship providers, staff, and other caregivers are maintained and thriving.
• Regularly scan for national best practices and conduct competitive analyses on relevant providers of similar programs.
• Co-create with Directors of Beech Acres’ universal parent education and coaching model.
• Sponsor and lead the quality improvement methodology.

Coach and Hold Direct Reports Accountable

• Contribute to the development of staff’s leadership capabilities.
• Provide coaching support to staff.
• Measure staff performance against defined and agreed upon metrics aligned to the agency scorecard.
• Ensure staff have a clear understanding of their performance.

Select Leaders and Build the Function

• Establish systems to clearly define accountability within program areas.
• Select staff based on Beech Acres’ values and leadership capabilities.
• Proactively develop leaders who are ready to assume team leader, manager, director, and vice president roles.
• Create program structures that produce clear line of sight cascading throughout all programs.

Take Ownership of Developing Leadership Talent

• Monitor human resource activities for staff and contractors. This includes position planning, hiring, individual staff development, team development and alignment of staff capabilities to program needs.
• Ensure staff alignment and engagement with agency vision, mission, direction and values.

This role is office based in nature and requires travel throughout the community-to-community partners and BAPC campuses.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements

• 5-7+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams and program(s) within a social services setting, including experience in program design/development, fiscal accountability, and process/procedure development is preferred.
• Strong ability to lead, develop, mentor and coach teams to success. Documented history of successfully developing and leading high performing teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Bachelor’s Degree (Social Work, Human Services, Psychology, or related field preferred). Master’s Degree preferred.
• High level of innovative and critical thinking skills with the ability to effectively lead processes that support continuous improvement and model operationalization.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to engage and motivate teams towards achievement of goals and targets.

Beech Acres is an Equal Opportunity Employer

BAPC provides equal employment opportunities (“EEO”) to all persons, consistent with applicable federal, state and local equal employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, religion, ancestry, military or veteran status, color, national origin, or any other applicable statutorily protected group status under local, state, or federal law. This applies to all phases of the employment relationship including recruitment, hiring, compensation, advancement, and discipline.