Residential Director

Location

Cedar City, UT | United States

Job description

Residential Director - Full-Time Exempt, 40 Hours a week, but some crisis situations may require extra time on occasion.

Salary - DOE

We believe in the potential of individuals and the ability to restore choice. Through nurturing relationships and challenging experiences, we all can discover hope, passion, and perseverance in the face of life’s adversity.

Located on a large private ranch on the outskirts of beautiful Cedar City, Discovery Ranch South is a licensed, accredited residential treatment center for for adolescent females and non-binary students. Our students come from all across the country and globe and are facing a number of challenges, especially mental and behavioral health issues.

Discovery Ranch South has many different experiential learning programs to help our students including performing arts, recreation therapy, and equine therapy. As our performing arts director, you will coordinate and develop all performing arts-related activities in collaboration with other departments to provide another therapeutic experiential milieu. You will build strong relationships with the students and create experiences that will improve self-esteem, confidence, and team building among the students.

Help empower teenagers. Be a part of the healing journey. Join the team at Discovery Ranch for South.

Responsibilities:

Summary/objective — Oversee and manage the development of programmatic structure and

therapeutic modalities for 60 adolescent students. As part of the administrative leadership

team, you will create strategic objectives and goals that are in alignment with company strategy

and goals. Ensure that the residential department works synergistically with the clinical,

academic, and experiential department. Oversee and manage the training of all residential

staff.

Essential functions— 

1. Provide leadership to program staff ensuring that our performance goals are reached

Supervisory responsibilities— Program Coordinators, Shift Supervisors

Work environment— Will be generally working in an office, but as circumstances arise, you may be walking around campus or participating in program activities. Due to the nature of the work being crisis oriented, there will be stressful situations arise. May at times be exposed to sexually explicit and inappropriate language by students on site or with parents or guardians you’re talking with on the phone. At some times you’ll also work outside in a ranch type environment including animals, experiencing varied weather conditions at times such as wind, rain, snow, ice, extreme heat or cold. Grounds consist of rocks, uneven grounds, cement, grass, dirt, and mud. Extremely noisy at times inside and outside of buildings.

Physical demands— While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to hear and talk. This position may require fine hand motor skills (keyboarding), walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, bending, running, sitting, lifting, reaching over your head, and driving several motor vehicles. Must be able to physically navigate the program campus in snow, mud, and uneven ground conditions and able to go up and down stairs without assistance. Must be able to sit through meetings at length, lift up to 50 lbs. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Travel — Travel will be minimal and mostly just to attend various trainings, or to attend industry seminars or conferences.

Preferred Requirements and Other Responsibilities

• Action Orientation

1. Targets and achieves results
2. Overcomes obstacles
3. Accepts responsibility
4. Creates a results-oriented environment
5. Follows through on action items

Leadership

1. Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with leadership teams
2. Develops a culture where employees feel ownership in what they do
3. Creates clear vision and gets others to support the vision

Communication

1. Communicates well both verbally and in writing
2. Conveys and shares information and ideas with clarity with others
3. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints
4. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation

1. Generates novel ideas, develops and improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, encourages innovation, effectiveness and efficiency
2. Design, Implement and be responsible for the DRS metrics and systems for the Residential Department.
3. Responsible for Residential Department financial health.
4. Work with sister program Residential Directors on program design and implementation.

Customer Orientation

1. Listens to the customers/employees
2. builds customer/employees confidence 
3. increases customer/employees satisfaction 
4. ensures commitments are met
5. sets appropriate employee expectations and responds to customer needs

Interpersonal skill

1. Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence them.
2. Effective empathic listener
3. Effectively regulate emotions

Teamwork

1. Knows how to attract, develop, reward, be a part of and utilize teams to optimize results.
2. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others
3. Effectively resolve conflict and develop consensus among high performance teams or departments

Technical/Functional Expertise

1. Demonstrates strong technical/functional proficiencies and knowledge in required areas of expertise.
2. Show knowledge of company business and proficiency in the strategic and financial processes, including asset management, adherence to budgets, profit and loss planning processes and their implications for the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in closely related field
• Supervisory Experience in Residential Treatment
• Must be 21 or older
• Able to pass criminal investigation background checks
• Able to pass motor vehicle record check
• Current Utah driver's license (within 30 days of employment)
• Basic math and computer skills
• Effective time management, boundaries, listening, and adhere to rules and regulations
• Effective communication both verbally and in writing
• Work well in a team setting and environment

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, and other insurance plans available after probationary period
• Employer contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off accrual
• Paid select federal holidays and company holiday parties
• Employee Referral Bonus program
• Continued professional development and certification opportunities, including paid training and travel
• Significant discounts for hundreds of professional gear brands, including and ExpertVoice account
• Employee recognition & appreciation treats (think: Waffle Luv)
• A few hours or less from Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Powell
• A few hours from many world-class ski resorts

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