Chief Executive Officer

  • East Providence
  • The Hire Llc

The new CEO must be mission driven, have the capacity to integrate the resources and draw upon the strengths of partner organizations while adhering to a person-centered and family- based philosophy that offers empowerment, hope and the right to self-determination and choice to all populations.

Within this context, we are seeking successful CEO applicants that possess the following attributes:

  • Familiarity and understanding of value-based programming such as CCBHC (Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics).
  • Experience in program development and managing grants and contracts from public and private funding sources.
  • Experience with third party billing, cost reimbursement funding and various other service-related payment methodologies.
  • The ability to collaborate, negotiate and problem-solve within a systems context among partners and state agencies.
  • Advocacy and leadership skills at the legislative and systems level on behalf of populations.
  • Experience leading a diverse team, personnel management, and related human resources systems.


The ideal candidate will be an experienced leader who is passionate about mission, has a vision for developing comprehensive and functioning integrated systems of care, continuously promotes equity and inclusion and is team oriented.

Candidates must have a degree in a relevant Human Services discipline (i.e. Social Work, Counseling, Health Care Management etc.), have a track record of effective leadership in local, regional and/or national scaling a performance and outcomes-based organization and its staff. In short, the ability to develop and operationalize strategies that take an organization to the next stage programmatically and with respect to equity to assure that people of color and other marginalized populations have access to resources.

Our ideal candidates will have a strong business sense within the community health and human services context and is able to balance clinical and financial goals while providing personal leadership within the organization, including the engagement of leaders and managers at all levels.

We are looking for a results-driven leader who has experience building and nurturing a collaborative relationship with broad stakeholder groups board, staff, consumers and families, communities and a wide range of private and public partners to shape a future of integrated and innovative systems of care. With a philosophy of shared leadership and collaboration, the ideal candidate will be politically savvy and an excellent communicator. The candidate must have a successful track record of leading strategic initiatives while taking care of business on a day-to-day basis.

We require strong leadership and management execution to continue to build infrastructure, increase efficiencies, and identify funding opportunities for its affiliate agencies.

In addition, is committed to developing innovative solutions to rapidly changing individual and community needs and to address unmet behavioral health and human service needs.