Project Director — Schoharie County SAMHSA CMHI System of Care Grant

Rate of pay: $72,000 – exempt

Full-time position with an excellent benefits package is available with our caring, supportive and dedicated team. Make a difference in the lives of families!

• $$72,000 yearly
• 37.5-hour work week
• M – F, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm and work occasional evening and weekend hours as assigned, based on the needs of the program and the members
• 27 paid days off in year 1 (vacation & holidays), plus paid sick time!
• 4% flat 401k contribution (after 1 year)
• Employer paid life insurance
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance available
• Supportive and inclusive organizational culture

The Project Director provides strategic, operational, and fiscal leadership for a SAMHSA Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (CMHI) System of Care grant. This role leads cross-system implementation to improve coordinated, family-driven, youth-guided, culturally responsive, trauma-informed behavioral health services for children, youth, and young adults with serious emotional disturbance and their families. The Project Director serves as the primary point of accountability for grant outcomes, compliance, partnerships, and sustainability.

They work closely with families, youth,
behavioral health providers, schools, child welfare, juvenile justice, primary care, community partners, and local and state agencies.

• Provide overall leadership, direction, and day-to-day management for the SAMHSA CMHI System of Care initiative.
• Work closely with the lead agency, Schoharie County Community Services to ensure all County requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Ensure implementation aligns with the approved grant work plan, budget, performance measures, reporting schedule, and federal requirements.
• Lead development and execution of a System of Care framework that is family driven, youth-guided, strengths-based, culturally and linguistically responsive, equitable, and trauma-informed.
• Convene and facilitate a cross-system governance structure, advisory bodies, implementation teams, and stakeholder work groups.
• Build and maintain effective partnerships across behavioral health, education, child welfare, juvenile justice, healthcare, housing, workforce, and community based organizations.
• Establish meaningful roles for family members and youth with lived experience in governance, service design and implementation, evaluation, training, and continuous quality improvement.
• Oversee development, expansion, and coordination of evidence-informed services and supports, including care coordination, wraparound, peer and family support, crisis response, school-based supports, and transition-age youth services as applicable.
• Supervise grant-funded staff, consultants, subcontractors, and partner activities; establish clear expectations, work plans, and performance goals.
• Manage grant finances in collaboration with fiscal staff, including budget monitoring, allowable-cost compliance, procurement, contracts, invoices, in‑kind matching required by the grant award and any budget modifications.
• Coordinate with the lead evaluator and evaluation team to collect, validate, analyze, and use data for required reporting, performance improvement, and decision‑making.
• Prepare and submit timely programmatic, financial, and performance reports to SAMHSA via SPARS and eRA Commons, as well as the Governance Oversight Board and The Neighborhood Center.
• Monitor progress toward grant deliverables, identify implementation barriers, and lead corrective‑action and risk‑mitigation efforts with the System of Care team.
• Develop policies, protocols, referral pathways, memoranda of understanding, and data‑sharing procedures that strengthen interagency coordination.
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