Assistant Program Director

About CIP

We’re the College Internship Program (CIP), and we’ve been helping young adults on the autism spectrum and with learning differences find success in college, employment, and independent living in our centers across the US since 1984. CIP’s programs are specially designed to help young adults make successful transitions from adolescence to young adulthood. Our vision is to challenge the norms of what people with learning differences can achieve.

Benefits

• Healthcare insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-term/Long-term Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Paid time off
• Fitness/Wellness Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 12 Observed Holidays

Overview
This is a key leadership position at the CIP Berkeley center location. It oversees student services, programming quality, and direct support staff training, onboarding, and orientation for all CIP programs.

Key Objectives

• Primary support for day-to-day service delivery and service quality
• Assessment and evaluation in order to ensure student success and growth
• Oversees, develops, and enables direct support staff to deliver program and service excellence (including ensuring direct support staff is trained, onboarded, oriented, and ready)
• Ensures appropriate application of organizational tools and resources in order to achieve programming goals
• Develops relationships with local higher education and vocational partnerships and alliances, in alignment with academic and career function especially
• Develops a leadership pipeline at the functional management level

Standard Activities
Administrative/Management

• Supervises program coordinator staff
• Provides leadership, education and ongoing support to staff, students, parents, and community partners as needed
• Ensures consistency of programming and procedures with CIP standards
• Develops staff training activities in conjunction with the Program Director and National Learning and Development Director.
• Plans and coordinates student and staff schedules in conjunction with center Office Manager and Program Director.
• Serves as the main point of contact for the center when the Program Director is unavailable, maintaining a high level of service to students, parents, and staff
• Ensures that student issues or incidents are resolved tactfully and confidentially

Student Services

• Ensure standards and practices that promote excellence in all programming areas
• Support the Program Director in the resolution of complaints and/or issues
• Present and train on topics including classroom management, instructional design and course assessments, or ensure delivery of the same by other resources
• Recommend and administer policies and procedures for effective service delivery and staffing structures

Outreach/Marketing

• Assist functions in the development of professional relationships and community partnerships
• Collaborate with the Program Director on special events
• Prepare for and participate in/on a variety of college and community committees, workshops, meetings, training sessions, task forces, and conferences
• Plan, attend and participate in panels, meetings, conferences as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Skills, Education and Requirements

• Bachelor in Education, Special Education, Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Human Services, or a related Business field; Master’s preferred
• 4+ years of experience working in a related field and 2+ years of experience in a management position
• Belief in and knowledge of the potential abilities and skills of people living with learning and attention differences
• Experience working in private school environments, working with referral sources, families, and direct services with clients and students
• Must be able to adjust work schedule as required including occasional early evening and occasional weekend day
• 0-25% travel, mostly local