Pillar Search and HR Consulting is honored to partner with Cooperative Elder Services, Inc. (CESI) on their search for their next Program Director. This role is split between the CESI locations in Arlington, MA and Burlington, MA.

Mission Statement:

The mission of Cooperative Elder Services, Inc. (CESI) is to empower seniors and adults with medical or cognitive challenges to age-in-place by serving their health and socialization needs and providing support for families.

About Cooperative Elder Services, Inc.: CESI takes a holistic approach to supporting the health of seniors and adults with medical or cognitive challenges. At each of our four adult day health centers, CESI staff works toward a common goal: to empower participants to age-in-place by serving their health and socialization needs and providing support for families. Founded in 1978, CESI currently operates private, nonprofit adult day health programs in Arlington, Burlington, Concord, and Groton. We serve 500 caregivers and seniors and adults with medical or cognitive challenges, who reside in more than 50 cities and towns in the greater Boston area. CESI participants make 42,000 daily visits to CESI’s centers each year.

CESI provides participants with an environment that supports their whole health; one in which they can:

• Socialize with peers,
• Participate in meaningful activities,
• Exercise their minds and bodies,
• Learn to manage their chronic diseases, and
• Maintain compliance with physician’s orders.

CESI programming provides participants’ family caregivers with the services and support they need to care for their families; physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.

CESI’s adult day health centers are staffed by licensed nurses, geriatric care and Alzheimer’s specialists, service coordinators, and program aides, with regular consultation by an Occupational Therapist and Registered Dietician.

Learn more at http://www.elderdayservices.org.

Job Overview:

The Program Director is responsible for oversight of program operations; providing leadership to and management of all staff in assigned sites to ensure that services required by participants are provided and documented as regulated. This includes Program Coordinators, Program Aides, Services Coordinators, and Nurses. The Program Director is also responsible for agency-wide initiatives and projects, including quality assurance and process improvement.

Essential functions of the position:

• Responsible for oversight and management of all program operations in the Arlington and Burlington sites, including implementing CESI policies and procedures; ensuring compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Leadership and management of staff, including hiring, training, and performance evaluations.
• Ensure coverage levels and performance excellence through recruiting of new staff for both sites.
• Oversight of program safety and emergency evacuation plans.
• Adherence to monthly/annual operating budgets, including preparation and monitoring of monthly income statements and program expenditures. Work with staff to respond to revenue deficits and over-expenditures.
• Responsible for growing attendance and revenue by increasing community/brand awareness and maximizing programming, in order to reach/exceed census benchmarks; review monthly census data by site.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with existing, past and potential funders.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with monitoring agencies, other community agencies, and vendors.
• Responsible for leading agency-wide initiatives and projects, responding to changes within the healthcare industry while also driving targeted efforts related to strategic business partnerships, and keeping abreast of inventive service models and innovative research.
• Represent the agency at outreach, education, marketing, and community events.
• Collaborate with administration to access grants and scholarships.
• Oversight of regulated documentation; key participant in the Quality Assessment and Process Improvement (QAPI) program.
• Ensure that the multi-disciplinary teams, led by the program directors, are developing care plan objectives for each participant.
• Other duties as assigned by Director of Services, Executive Director, or their designee.

Equipment:

• Ensure proper use of medical and participant care equipment to meet the needs of Adult Day Health Center’s participants.

Working Conditions:

• Extensive participant contact.
• Possible exposure to infection, blood and blood borne pathogens.
• May work with hazardous/infectious waste.

Physical Requirements:

( ) Sedentary Work – Lifting 10 lbs. maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers and small tools.

( ) Light Work – Lifting 20 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 lbs.

(X) Medium Work – Lifting 50 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.

( ) Heavy Work – Lifting 100 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 50 lbs.

( ) Very Heavy Work – Lifting objects in excess of 100 lbs. with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing 50 lbs. or more.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in human services or a related field required, Master’s degree strongly preferred, LICSW ideal
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a senior management/leadership role
• Proven experience leading and managing teams, including a strong track record of identifying, hiring and training strong performers
• Experience growing a program or organization
• Experience working with seniors strongly preferred
• Project management experience preferred
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation required
• Computer proficiency required

Personal Characteristics:

• Ability to lead as a change agent
• Comfortable pitching in as needed directly with program participants
• Proven ability to work autonomously
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a culturally diverse population of clients, other care providers, family and community members.
• Able to meet and manage to specific benchmarks around fiscal health, program quality measures, and service levels
• Ability to function under pressure in a fast-paced human service environment.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve differences.
• Ability to be flexible, open and responsive to ongoing industry changes.
• Effective communicator who can articulate and clearly communicate CESI’s mission and strategic direction in a consistent and enthusiastic manner to departmental staff.
• Ability to identify opportunities and obstacles, and develop effective, creative solutions to pursue opportunities.
• Results-oriented.

Cooperative Elder Services has partnered with Pillar Search on the hiring of our new Program Director. Please submit your resume and cover letter (required) to Cindy Joyce at cindy@pillarsearch.com. No calls please. Our apologies in advance, but due to the high volume of resumes received we will only respond to those candidates selected for an interview.

CESI and Pillar Search & HR Consulting believe that diversity in all dimensions of the organization supports and bolsters the innovative thinking essential to its success. CESI and Pillar Search & HR Consulting do not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, religion, political affiliation, or ideology.

About Pillar Search & HR Consulting:

A woman-owned business founded in Boston in 2015, Pillar Search & HR Consulting provides executive search/recruiting and human resources consulting expertise to nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, working with senior leaders and boards of directors to hire and develop the very best talent across all functional areas of the organization. To learn more, please contact Cindy Joyce at cindy@pillarsearch.com.