Assistant Residential Program Director Student Homes

This isnt a group home with rotating shift staff. Our homes run on consistent adults who know the kids live daily life with them hold them accountable and stay invested. You run the home day to day and lead the Change Agents (Houseparents) who serve as the primary adults in these young mens lives. And when the program heads offshore you go too.

• Salary

  • $60000 base up to $15000 annual Impact Award

• Reports to

  • Residential Program Director

• You lead

  • The Change Agents in one residential home

• Schedule

  • Monday to Friday 12 to 8pm a shared weekend on-call rotation and two sailing expeditions a year (2 weeks on 1 week off 8 weeks total)

• Housing

  • Housing and meals provided year-round

• Benefits

  • $250/month toward health insurance 401(k) with up to 6% match 15 days PTO

• Travel

• Domestic and International sailing expeditions

Lead the team

• Set clear expectations and coach Change Agents through regular 1:1s

• Address performance issues early document them and follow through

• Build schedules manage time off and keep coverage solid

• Help recruit interview onboard and retain residential staff

Keep youth on track

• Know every young persons goals risks school status and treatment needs

• Spot early warning signs (disengagement substance use school refusal runaway risk) and act before they become a crisis

• Run intakes transitions and discharges so nothing gets missed

Execute the plan

• Make sure drug tests appointments meds and case documentation happen on time

• Sit in on treatment and case-plan meetings and turn goals into daily expectations

• Keep clinical school workforce and residential teams on one consistent plan

Run the home

• Own the weekly schedule: school work fitness appointments family contact recreation

• Manage groceries meals supplies allowances vehicles and house traditions

• Keep the home clean safe welcoming and inspection-ready

• Support licensing visits audits and compliance reporting

Go on expeditions

• Prepare youth and staff for extended sailing trips

• Lead residential supervision while underway

• Help kids turn what they accomplished at sea into confidence back home

• Experience working with teens ideally those impacted by foster care trauma juvenile justice or behavioral health needs

• Experience supervising staff in residential care education behavioral health or youth development

• The ability to balance empathy with accountability and clear boundaries

• Strong organization across people schedules documentation and competing priorities

• Calm judgment de-escalation skills and practical problem solving

• Ability to pass background screening driving and regulatory requirements

• Comfort with travel and unconventional settings

You wont be administering a program from an office. Youll be in the home for the setbacks and the milestones coaching your team and building the conditions for young men whove had a lot of instability to grow into confident capable adults.