What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Couples Services position at The Family Institute?
The Organization
Through clinical services, education, and research, The Family Institute at Northwestern University is one of the nation’s leading relationship-based behavioral health organizations committed to strengthening and healing children and adolescents, couples, families, and individuals. When you join The Family Institute, you are joining a team of over 230 collaborators comprised of clinicians, educators, researchers, therapists-in-training, partners, and administrators across four service sites. We are a strong, independent organization focused on advancing the world of behavioral health.
The Role
Reporting to the COO, the director’s fundamental responsibility is to build a thriving, connected, well-functioning team and programs as part of the larger organizational practice. The Director of Couples Services provides leadership with respect to talent recruitment and management, organizational and financial planning, clinical effectiveness, and external relations.
Primary Responsibilities
Talent Recruitment and Management, including but not limited to:
- Identify staffing needs, develop, and implement staff recruiting plan
- Be a conduit for reciprocal communication that (1) supports TFI initiatives and polices (2) represents clinicians’ needs and concerns
- Support and mentor young clinicians
- Identify and facilitate professional development needs
Organizational and Financial Planning, including but not limited to:
- Works with COO to establish and maintain annual financial plan
- Make recommendations re: teams’ member’s annual plan and raises
- Tracks and supports team to meet or exceed annual revenue targets
- Lead priority projects to advance the strategic plan for the organization
Clinical effectiveness, including but not limited to:
- Support Coordinators & Program Directors to develop and improve clinical programs
- Work with Director of marketing to evaluate & implement strategies to drive referrals
- Interface with Operations re: administrative needs and to track and extract data for continuous improvement
- Conduct annual evaluations and guide clinicians to develop their skills
- Maintains thriving clinical practice
External Relations, including but not limited to:
- Act as TFI Ambassadors to advance the mission, vision, and current initiatives
- Represent TFI to external relations, outside stakeholders, referral sources, clinical partners, Board members, etc.
- Work with Director of External relations to assess fund raising opportunities and/or external facing PR and brand advancement
- Perform other duties as assigned by manager for business necessity
Summary of Qualifications
Knowledge and Skills
- Possess a training background and clinical experience that is empirically informed, theoretically grounded, and systemically oriented
- Understanding of personal and professional boundaries
- Organizational skills
- Time and stress management skills
- Communication skills to include interpersonal, teamwork, and collaboration skills
- Computer literacy
- Problem-solving skills
Minimum Hiring Specifications
- Doctoral or Master’s degree in a license-eligible discipline, with a valid professional license
- Minimum 8 years post-graduate experience (internship & post-doc fellowship applies) or comparable experience in a relevant discipline
- Experience as a couples therapist with an established referral base, as well as experience mentoring and supervising clinical staff
Job Requirements
Physical and Mental Requirements
- Must be able to compose written reports clearly and effectively
- Must be able to be in a stationary position due to attention to computer screen
- The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
- The ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the observer) to perform work-related duties
- Must be able to apply established protocols in a timely manner
- Must be able to determine solutions to problems
- Must be able to operate successfully while handling multiple projects
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Family Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other protected class. We strive to create a working environment that is free of all forms of discrimination and one that promotes human dignity and mutual respect among all staff. We believe every member of our organization enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, to identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions.
If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, please direct your inquiries to hr@family-institute.org.
Compensation is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: scope and responsibilities of the position; a candidate’s applicable work experience, key skills and qualifications, as well as internal and external market considerations. The pay range for this full-time, exempt position is $105,000.00 - $140,250.00/year. The Family Institute provides competitive benefits, including health, a 403(b) retirement savings plan, generous time off, and professional development. For a more inclusive list of benefits, please visit our Careers page.
Salary : $105,000 - $140,250