What You’ll Do

As Regional Director for Easterseals New York in Rochester, you will lead a team of 100+ educators, clinicians, and other professionals dedicated to providing educational, residential, and community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Reporting to the Executive Director for Easterseals New York, you’ll be responsible for ensuring delivery of high-quality services, compliance with regulations, financial stability, and dignity for all program participants.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

Overseeing program operations – monitoring performance, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices, evaluating outcomes, and making data-driven improvements.  Maintaining and strengthening relationships with funders and New York State regulators and including OPWDD, OMH, DOH, and NYSED. Building partnerships with community agencies, hospitals, and other referral sources to increase program visibility within the region. Representing Easterseals New York at public events and promoting awareness and understanding of I/DD issues within the community. Reviewing and updating existing policies and procedures to ensure consistency and quality throughout the program. Increasing the population served by recruiting educational staff to open additional classrooms and evaluating expansion of services through additional programming. Responding on a timely basis to all requests for information from regulators, funders, other care providers, and Corporate Services. Developing program budget to ensure financial sustainability and monitoring expenses and funding to optimize resource allocation. Ensuring the maintenance of records that meet legal requirements and best practices for documentation of evaluation, clinical care planning and implementation, safety planning, and adverse incidents including agency response.

You’re a great fit for this role if you have:

Bachelor's degree in Human Services, Behavioral Health, Health Administration, or related field. Supervisory experience (ideally 10+ years) in a setting working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In-depth knowledge of and experience complying with the regulations of OPWDD, DOH, OMH, and NYSED. Strong organizational, administration, presentation and communication skills (both verbal and written) with excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to exercise a high degree of initiative, judgement, and discretion to achieve organizational objectives. Strong analytical skills enabling accurate assessment of situations and implementation of effective actions. Ability to work independently, prioritize work, and handle simultaneous assignments with speed and accuracy.

Compensation

$110,000-$125,000

Who We Are

The mission of Easterseals New York is to spread help, hope, and answers.

We operate programs that enable people with special needs to achieve equality, dignity, and independence in their own communities. We provide exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities. We change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day. In Rochester, NY, we operate The Kessler Center, an approved private special education (853) school offering both residential (CRP) and day placements for students with developmental disabilities. The Kessler Center is an available option for school districts seeking an out-of-district placement for students who need an alternative educational path due to their developmental disabilities. The Kessler Center has broad expertise working with students across the entire range of developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorders, as well as with children who struggle with behavioral challenges. In addition to The Kessler Center, we operate a dayhab program and provide respite care.

Easterseals New York joined The Fedcap Group in 2015.    

Website: www.Easterseals.com/newyork

 

 

The Fedcap Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We are an EOE employer committed to diversity.