Impact Director, Behavioral Health

About the role

The Impact Director, Behavioral Health role is a high-impact opportunity for a collaborative leader passionate about youth mental health, prevention-based school interventions, and developing the next generation of behavioral health professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of school-based behavioral health supports for both students and AmeriCorps members.
• Expand City Year Denver’s ability to deliver evidence-based mental health interventions including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness programming directly within partner schools, while strengthening supports for AmeriCorps members navigating a demanding year of service.
• Implement the Youth Mental Health Corps, ensuring all AmeriCorps members successfully complete behavioral health coursework and earn a micro-credential through Community College of Aurora.
• Build pathways into behavioral health careers and strengthen the local workforce.
• Provide clinical supervision, coaching, and performance management for 6 Social Work Fellows.
• Support Fellows in connecting graduate-level learning to school-based practice, including behavioral interventions and student engagement strategies.
• Design and facilitate training aligned to identified needs, including trauma-informed care, CBT techniques, mindfulness practices, and culturally responsive approaches.
• Ensure fidelity to intervention models while supporting appropriate adaptation to meet student needs.
• Partner with higher education institutions to ensure strong field placement experiences, alignment between academic learning and service and completion of graduate school related requirements as the site’s field instruction/internship supervisor.
• Contribute to City Year Denver’s long-term behavioral health workforce development strategy.
• Lead implementation of the Youth Mental Health Corps at City Year Denver.
• Support all AmeriCorps members in completing behavioral health coursework and earning a micro-credential through Community College of Aurora.
• Provide guidance and reinforcement of course content, helping AmeriCorps members apply learning in real-time school settings.
• Identify and address barriers to course completion, ensuring strong persistence and success rates.
• Collaborate internally to align and integrate coursework and Youth Mental Health Corps participation with and into broader service experience reinforcing connections between service, learning, and career pathways in the behavioral health.
• Build and manage partnerships with higher education institutions, training providers, and local employers.
• Create post-service career pathways.
• Track and analyze outcomes related to credential completion, employment placement, and career progression.
• Participate in communities of practice and cross-site collaboration efforts related to Youth Mental Health Corps implementation.
• Design and oversee behavioral health supports for AmeriCorps members, including small-group and individual resource navigation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to address stress, secondary trauma, and barriers to persistence.
• Increase awareness and utilization of available mental health resources.
• Support strategies to improve AmeriCorps member experience and retention.
• Support City Year Denver’s cross-functional priorities, including recruitment, fundraising events, and AmeriCorps member experience initiatives.
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts across the Impact team.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Master's of Social Work (MSW)
• 3+ years of experience providing mental health services to youth and/or young adults
• 2+ years of experience supervising or coaching early-career professionals (e.g., interns, fellows)
• Experience delivering or overseeing evidence-based interventions (e.g., CBT, mindfulness)
• Experience working in or partnering with K–12 school systems
• PREFERRED: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or equivalent clinical licensure
• Experience with school-based mental health programming
• Familiarity with MTSS, IEP processes, and school-based service coordination
• Experience supporting young adult populations (ages 18–25)
• Experience supporting adult learners, workforce development programs, or career pathway initiatives
• Experience building partnerships with higher education institutions and/or employers

Benefits

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.