Center Director- Board Certified Behavior Analyst; BCBA

Company Overview

Company Overview: This is a journey of impact and meaning. Together we go and grow forward. Little Leaves is hiring a Center Director for our Frederick Center. This position does require the candidate is a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst)
Why Grow your BCBA Career with Little Leaves. We offer a competitive SIGN-ON BONUS and a RELOCATION BONUS—designed to support your move and reward your expertise from day one

Who We Are Across our Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy centers, we work one-on-one with young children with autism. Through high-quality, evidence-based treatment as well as the application of data-driven methods to track progress and inform program adjustments, we are able to close the gap in developmental trajectory between our clients and their neurotypical peers. Small steps and big effects start here.

In preparing children ages 1 to 6 with autism to thrive, our passionate clinicians and technicians achieve positive outcomes, pursue meaningful development, and realize purposeful balance through one-on-one, individualized ABA treatment that leads to life-impacting results in communication, social skills, safety, and independence.

The Center Director is the primary leader and decision maker for the services delivered in a Little Leaves center. This accountability includes team members, clients, operations, clinical quality, and financial results. Little Leaves has a highly skilled professional team supporting the centers and center director including human resources and recruiting, training and clinical intervention standards, client marketing and intake, authorizations management, credentialing, information technology, etc.

These people supply the “architectural design” of Little Leaves and some upstream and downstream support for the operations of a center, but the successful leadership of the center day in and day out is the center director’s role. The center director sets the tone culturally and professionally by modeling thoughtful, highly competent, and authentic professional behavior. The Center Director is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (i.e., BCBA) and manages the day-to-day operations of their assigned center, by providing clinical and operational leadership.

Services delivered follow evidence-based practice (EBP) approaches, which include operationally defined, empirically documented, and socially validated methods based on the principles of behavior analysis. The center director ensures daily operations meet best practice standards of care, requirements of funders, and Little Leaves policies and procedures by providing coaching, supervision, and evaluating the work performance of office manager, behavior technicians, training and behavior specialists, and supervising behavior analyst(s).

Additionally, the center director is responsible for the performance and productivity of staff in accordance with Little Leaves policies and procedures.

• Operational Responsibilities (40%)
  • Ensure individual staff productivity of service unit and financial targets, which includes client census and staff ratios.
  • Oversees day-to-day operations and works with the office manager to ensure sufficient supplies, maintaining checklists (e.g., regulatory standards), and informing division leadership of challenges and impending issues.
  • Coordinate the recruitment of staff, including publicizing open positions, interviewing, and selecting staff.
  • Assists with applicable portions of the revenue cycle management process to ensure timely payments and collections for services provided, by ensuring documentation of services (including authorizations) are completed in a timely manner.
  • Assists with budgeting process (i.e., projecting census) and provides information to the senior leadership team as requested.
  • Manages expenses and ensures that spending does not exceed monthly budget.
• Supervision and Training (40%)
  • Serves as a leader of the center team in assessing and supporting clients and staff within the center by creating a sense of community and positive working culture.
  • Reviews referrals on an ongoing basis, monitor, assign…