️ Make an Impact Every Day
Assistant Director
Abraxas Youth & Family Services - Woodridge Intervention I 2221 64th Street, Woodridge, IL 60517
Full-Time
105,000
DailyPay Available
Looking for More Than Just a Job?
At Abraxas Youth & Family Services, we are looking for dedicated professionals who want to make a meaningful difference in the lives of youth, young adults, and families. Our team members support individuals as they build skills, overcome challenges, and work toward positive, lasting change.
Whether you are beginning your career, bringing experience in human services, behavioral health, education, juvenile justice, or residential care, or looking for work with greater purpose, Abraxas provides the training, support, and opportunities needed to help you succeed.
Experience requirements vary by position. Many roles require or prefer experience working with youth, families, or individuals in behavioral health, education, residential, or human services settings.
About Abraxas Youth & Family Services
For more than 50 years, Abraxas Youth & Family Services has been committed to supporting youth, young adults, and families through high-quality programs and services that promote growth, accountability, healing, and positive change.
Our mission is empowering individuals to make transformative changes and enabling them to lead lives with purpose and fulfillment. Every day, our employees help create safe, structured, and supportive environments where individuals can build skills, develop confidence, strengthen relationships, and move toward a more positive future.
Why Join Our Team?
Competitive Pay & Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- DailyPay – access your earned wages before payday
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - Available after 30 days of employment
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness programs
- Employee referral bonuses
- Company-paid training
Training & Career Growth
- Paid training programs
- Professional development opportunities
- Certification opportunities, where applicable
- Leadership development programs
- Career advancement opportunities
- Opportunities across multiple programs and service areas
️ Meaningful Work That Matters
- Support youth, young adults, and families
- Help individuals build skills, confidence, and stability
- Make a positive impact every day
- Work as part of a mission-driven organization
- Contribute to safe, supportive, and structured environments
What You’ll Do
As an Assistant Director, you will:
- Monitors and manages the facility’s operations to ensure policy compliance, effective supervision of clients, delivery of quality services and the implementation facility schedules.
- Ensures quality and continuity of clinical services and curriculum within established parameters.
- Develops and executes departmental policies in accordance with federal, state and local regulations.
- Assures compliance with applicable licensing and regulatory agencies.
- Updates and amends policy and procedures manual for accuracy and regulatory compliance.
- Supervises, assists with hiring, and evaluates staff performance, develops measurable objectives for necessary improvements and implements appropriate corrective action to staff adhering to human resources policies and utilizing Human Resources when necessary.
- Confers with local agencies such as social service, community relations, and criminal justice to interpret the institutional programmatic activities and objectives as well as developing cooperative working relationships.
- Assumes overall direction of the program including communication with internal management and external agencies in the absence of the Facility Director.
- Evaluates training needs of the facility for staff members and coordinates training activities and programs.
- Communicates regularly and thoroughly with appropriate supervisory staff member on matters such as operational, administrative, and personnel issues within the program/facility.
- Attend staff meetings and conferences.
- Supports the company’s philosophy and mission and promotes the Seven Key Principles of care.
- Planning, organizing, directing and controlling the management and delivery of quality client services within a defined substance abuse treatment program.
- Reviews clinical treatment program services and results; ensures compliance with program and Foundation standards and objectives, applicable contracts, regulations and accreditation standards. Recommends program budgets, goals, and policies; and ensures effective implementation and administration of same.
- Interviews, hires, oversees the training and development of, schedules, assigns work to, evaluates the performance and competence of and, when necessary, disciplines and discharges subordinate staff in accordance with established personnel policies. Develops staff retention programs.
- Develops and recommends program goals and objectives and designs and implements appropriate plans to meet agreed-upon goals. Assists subordinate supervisors in developing and meeting goals and objectives for their areas of responsibility. Conducts regular meetings with program staff to communicate program goals, objectives, and short- and long-term plans, to provide advice and guidance in resolving complex case problems and to conduct staff in-service training.
- Maintains and fosters cooperative working relationships with a variety of referral resources and services, community organizations and criminal justice and social services agencies.
- Maintains and enhances knowledge and expertise through appropriate educational and organizational activities. Creates an annual personal development plan to increase management skills, abilities and competence. Serves on internal and external committees as assigned.
Who We’re Looking For
You may be a great fit if you are:
- Compassionate and professional
- Dependable and responsible
- Patient, positive, and service-focused
- Committed to supporting youth, young adults, and families
- Comfortable working in a structured, team-oriented environment
- Interested in human services, behavioral health, education, residential care, social work, psychology, criminal justice, or related fields
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral or social science field and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in residential and non-residential facility of which three (3) years must be in a supervisory or managerial level or a Master’s degree a behavioral or social science field and three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in residential and non-residential program of which one (1) year experience must be in a supervisory or managerial level.
Preferred:
- Experience working with youth, young adults, families, or individuals in a behavioral health, education, human services, residential, or juvenile services setting
Schedule
Apply Today - Join Us in Building Better Futures!
Some jobs pay the bills. Some jobs build careers. This job helps create meaningful change.
If you are looking for meaningful work where your compassion, dedication, and professionalism can make a real difference every day, we encourage you to apply today.
About Our Organization
Abraxas Youth & Family Services is part of the Inperium family of companies.
Employment for this position is administered through Apis Services, Inc.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Apis Services, Inc., Inperium Inc., and affiliates provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment in compliance with all federal and applicable state and local laws and regulations, including nondiscrimination in hiring and employment.
All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. This policy of nondiscrimination and equal employment opportunity extends to every phase and aspect of hiring and employment.
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