Behavioral Health Data & Analytics Director

At JBS International, our work is driven by a simple but powerful purpose: improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of individuals, families, and communities. Every day, our team partners with federal agencies, states, health systems, and community organizations to solve complex public health and human services challenges and create lasting, measurable impact. With more than 250 professionals nationwide, JBS combines deep subject matter expertise, innovative technology, and a collaborative culture to help clients improve outcomes in behavioral health, public health, child welfare, health care, and social services.

When you join JBS International, you become part of a mission-driven team dedicated to improving health, well-being, and quality of life for individuals and communities nationwide. You'll collaborate with talented professionals, lead meaningful work, and help solve some of the nation's most complex public health and human services challenges. Backed by the strength and resources of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and the Celerian Group family of companies, JBS offers the stability of a large organization with the agility, innovation, and collaborative culture of a specialized consulting firm.

Ready to make an impact? Join a team where your expertise matters, your ideas are valued, and your work helps improve lives across the country. If you're looking for a career with purpose, opportunity, and the chance to drive meaningful change, we encourage you to apply today.

POSITION SUMMARY

As Project Director, you will have the opportunity to lead a complex, nationally significant program that supports the collection, analysis, and use of behavioral health data. You will serve as a trusted partner to the client, guide a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, and ensure that the program delivers reliable data, modern technology, responsive technical assistance, and high-quality public-facing resources. The Project Director serves as the primary point of accountability to the client and ensures coordinated performance across behavioral health subject matter expertise, survey operations, state data reporting, statistical analysis, technical assistance, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, public-facing services, and dissemination.

This role establishes the program governance and management infrastructure needed to sustain uninterrupted operations, protect data integrity and confidentiality, meet schedule and budget commitments, and deliver accurate, accessible, timely, and reproducible products. The Project Director leads a multidisciplinary team and works closely with designated project management, technical, statistical, survey, security, implementation, accessibility, communications, and quality leaders.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Serve as the primary point of accountability for contract performance, client outcomes, issue resolution, and mission results.

Build and maintain transparent, responsive working relationships with the client, government partners, states, territories, treatment facilities, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.

Translate contractual requirements and client priorities into integrated work plans, decision structures, staffing assignments, performance measures, and deliverable schedules.

Lead executive-level meetings, provide clear status and decision briefings, and ensure timely follow-through on client direction, approvals, risks, and action items.

Lead interconnected behavioral health data programs spanning national surveys, administrative data collections, analytics, technical assistance, system modernization, and public-facing services.

Use data to strengthen performance by monitoring results, anticipating risks, resolving challenges, and driving continuous improvement.

Build stakeholder-centric reporting and dashboards that empowers policymakers to make rapid, confident, evidence-based decisions.

Guide national data operations encompassing survey administration, outreach, data submission, validation, processing, integration, quality assurance, analysis, and dissemination.

Advance technology and innovation by overseeing cloud modernization, cybersecurity, privacy, Authority to Operate activities, accessibility, human-centered design, and open-source development.

Strengthen state and facility capabilities through responsive technical assistance, stakeholder engagement, and targeted strategies to improve data quality, completeness, and…