Strategic Projects Director

Company: David Lawrence Centers For Behavioral Health (DLC)

Job Type: Full-Time & Salaried/Exempt
Monday-Friday, Target Standard Business Hours

Salary: Starting at $90,000

Hiring

Incentives:

Sign on Bonus, Immediate PTO Accrual, Full Benefits W/401k, Professional Development & Tuition Programs, EAP

Job Summary: The Strategic Projects Director is a cross‑functional role responsible for bringing structure, coordination, and accountability to complex, multi‑departmental initiatives. This role serves as the organizational hub for project oversight, ensuring that every active initiative has clear ownership, defined timelines, and appropriate executive visibility.

DLC is in a period of rapid, sustained growth—simultaneously opening and designing facilities, launching new programs, building organizational infrastructure, and developing leadership capacity. The Strategic Projects Director provides the connective tissue that holds these concurrent efforts together—reducing friction, preventing gaps, and enabling the executive team to remain focused on strategy and decision‑making rather than day‑to‑day project coordination.

This position reports to the Vice President of Advancement, sits on the DLC Leadership Council alongside department directors and executive leadership, and has authority in project coordination across all functional areas.

• Maintain/manage Cross‑Departmental Project Tracker as the single source of accountability/execution for all active, planned, and aspirational initiatives.
• Conduct structured intake meetings with project leads following supervisor and executive approval, completing all required tracker fields, including project lead, contributors, decision makers, dependencies, timeline, and EOS alignment.
• Facilitate regular status check‑ins with project leads across all timeline tiers, escalating at‑risk or stalled projects to the appropriate supervisor or executive.
• Ensure that every cross‑departmental project at DLC has a named lead, a clear decision authority, and an updated status.

• Prepare concise Go/No‑Go briefings for the executive team on all new project requests, including timeline, resource implications, dependencies, and EOS alignment.
• Deliver a monthly project status summary to the executive team, identifying projects at risk, upcoming activations, and decisions requiring executive input.
• Serve as the connective link between the executive team and director‑level project leads, reducing the need for executives to manage day‑to‑day project coordination.
• Support the executive team in distinguishing between decisions that require their direct involvement and those that can be delegated or resolved at the project lead level.

• Own/enforce the project intake process: no cross‑departmental project enters the tracker without supervisor approval, a completed intake meeting, and an executive Go/No‑Go review.
• Lead the initial discovery process to capture all existing cross‑departmental projects currently underway that have not yet been formally logged or assigned.
• Ensure all projects are mapped to the appropriate EOS framework category, including the short‑ or long‑term issue they address and the V/TO goal they support.
• Maintain governance standards consistently, including archiving completed and canceled projects.

• Build productive working relationships across all DLC departments, serving as a trusted resource and partner to project leads and directors.
• Communicate clearly and diplomatically when projects are off track, when decisions are needed, or when competing priorities require executive arbitration.
• Represent the project management function at the DLC Leadership Council, contributing to organizational planning conversations and keeping the director‑level team informed of cross‑departmental dependencies.
• Develop and maintain consistent communication rhythms with project leads, including agreed‑upon check‑in schedules and status reporting formats.
• Identify patterns across projects, including recurring bottlenecks, common resource gaps, and…