About the Role
The Consultant, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention aids in the creation and implementation of strategic plans for partner PK-12 school districts to support student mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention efforts. This role involves reviewing school processes, analyzing data, and providing guidance to school and district leadership.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with school contacts within an assigned portfolio (approx. 15 school districts) to ensure success throughout program engagement.
- Assist districts in developing and executing strategic plans and measuring the efficacy of their mental health promotion efforts.
- Provide ongoing support and serve as a resource consultant to participating JED districts, schools, and JED program staff on mental health promotion, suicide, and substance abuse programming.
- Conduct programmatic reviews and analyze student data of assigned districts to inform support provided to schools, drafting feedback reports and executive summaries for stakeholders.
- Oversee project timelines and monitor an institution’s progress to ensure districts are meeting program milestones in a timely manner.
- Serve as content expert regarding best practices in policies, procedures, and practices in PK-12 school mental health and suicide prevention, acting as a subject matter expert during all phases of JED’s DMHI.
- Collaborate with leadership to update programmatic materials and work closely with the School Programs Division on assigned projects, team culture, and education programming.
- Utilize Salesforce to record and codify contacts with participating schools, tracking progress, types of intervention, and utilization of resources.
Requirements
- Minimum of master’s level training in education, educational leadership, counseling, psychology, social work, or related field (LPC, MSW, MPH, MED, and early to mid-career PhD degree-holders encouraged to apply).
- Strong technical knowledge of school-based mental health, Social Emotional Learning, suicide prevention, and substance use prevention.
- Experience in school or system-level leadership, and experience leading, building, and managing PK-12 education programs.
- Deep knowledge of PK-12 school systems and systems-level change, including data, daily operations, and the current educational landscape.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in drafting report-style formats, with attention to detail.
- Excellent presentation skills with experience and comfort presenting to large groups, including senior leadership.
- Self-driven and results-oriented with strong research, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to travel to campuses, conferences, and JED headquarters in NYC regularly (up to 30% travel) and reside within approx. 60 min of an airport.
- At least 5-7 years professional experience working within, or in direct partnership with PK-12 schools and school districts.
- Experience in research and evaluation methodology.
- Experience working with Asana, Salesforce, or other CRM and project management systems.
Skills
- Relationship management
- Problem-identification
- Problem-solving
- Resource development
- Technical assistance in school mental health
- School-based mental health
- Social Emotional Learning
- Suicide prevention
- Substance use prevention
- School or system-level leadership
- Leading, building, and managing PK-12 education programs
- PK-12 school systems and systems-level change
- Data analysis
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Report drafting
- Presentation skills
- Research
- Analytical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Project management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Remote
Experience Level
- Early to mid-career PhD degree-holders
- 5-7 years professional experience
Education Level
- Master’s level training in education, educational leadership, counseling, psychology, social work, or related field
- LPC
- MSW
- MPH
- MED
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $115,000 / year
About the Company
- The Consultant, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention is a member of the District Programs team within JED’s School Programs and Consulting division.
