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About the Role
Athena is seeking a Chief Program Officer to provide strategic and clinical leadership across existing service lines and drive program expansion to address community needs and increase access to high-quality behavioral healthcare. This role is responsible for the quality, effectiveness, consistency, and development of clinical programs, ensuring strong clinical infrastructure, evidence-based practice, regulatory compliance, measurable outcomes, and exceptional patient care.
Responsibilities
- Provide executive oversight of clinical quality, leaders, and standards of care across locations and service lines.
- Establish consistent, evidence-based, patient-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive clinical practices.
- Ensure appropriate systems for clinical supervision, high-risk case review, treatment planning, care coordination, and continuity of care.
- Develop and mentor clinical and program leaders while promoting accountability, collaboration, and professional excellence.
- Establish and monitor clinical quality, outcomes, access, engagement, retention, and program performance metrics.
- Use clinical data to proactively identify risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure adherence to OMH and other applicable regulatory and clinical requirements.
- Lead clinical quality-improvement initiatives and support regulatory reviews, audits, and corrective action activities.
- Provide clinical leadership for the development, implementation, and stabilization of new programs, locations, and models of care.
- Evaluate opportunities for program expansion based on community need, outcomes, organizational strategy, and clinical feasibility.
- Lead the executive team in aligning clinical strategy with organizational growth, operations, workforce planning, and financial sustainability.
- Represent clinical programs and capabilities with regulators, health systems, payers, community organizations, and other external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or doctorate in social work, psychology, counseling, mental health counseling, or another relevant behavioral health discipline required.
- Active New York State clinical licensure strongly preferred; independent clinical licensure such as LCSW, LMHC, or psychologist preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive behavioral health leadership experience, including significant responsibility for clinical programs, quality, and staff leadership.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multi-site and/or large-scale outpatient behavioral health services.
- Strong knowledge of New York State behavioral health regulations and OMH-licensed services strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and scaling clinical programs.
- Strong understanding of evidence-based treatment, clinical risk management, quality improvement, measurement-based care, and behavioral health outcomes.
- Experience leading senior clinical leaders and multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated ability to use clinical and operational data to identify trends, improve performance, and drive organizational decision-making.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, collaboration, and change-management skills.
Skills
- Clinical leadership
- Program development
- Quality improvement
- Regulatory compliance
- Data analysis
- Change management
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- New York State
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of progressive behavioral health leadership experience
Education Level
- Master's degree or doctorate in a relevant behavioral health discipline
- Active New York State clinical licensure strongly preferred
- Independent clinical licensure (LCSW, LMHC, or psychologist) preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $190,000 - $250,000 a year
About the Company
- Athena is a New York State Office of Mental Health-licensed provider serving more than 8,000 individuals across Upstate and Downstate clinics.