Assistant Clinical Director-must be Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Key Essentials; Rancho Cucamonga, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

PTO

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

CEU budget

Job summary

Key Essentials to Behavior Management Corp seeks an Assistant Clinical Director to bridge senior clinical leadership and executive direction. This exempt, salaried role requires active BCBA, a master’s degree, and 5+ years of leadership, ideally across multiple sites. You will partner with the Clinical Director, oversee BCBA Leads, drive program development under the S.O.C.I.A.L.

P.O.D.S. framework, and mentor clinic managers across Inland Empire and Georgia locations.

Qualifications

• Active BCBA certification and master's degree required.
• 5+ years post-certification leadership experience, multi-site preferred.
• CA licensure or GA LBA as required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Clinical Director on cross-site clinical operations and standards.
• Oversee BCBA Leads across regions and ensure quality assurance.
• Drive clinical program development and standardization across sites.
• Own clinical strategic initiatives and expansion readiness.
• Mentor clinic managers and develop leadership pipeline.

Skills

BCBA certification

Leadership experience

Multi-site leadership

Licensure (CA/GA)

Education

Master's degree

BCBA Certification

Job description

KEY ESSENTIALS TO BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT CORP

Assistant Clinical Director

Executive Clinical Leadership Track

Role

Assistant Clinical Director — Executive Clinical Leadership Track

Compensation (Full-time)

$88,000 – $112,000/year (Exempt, Salaried)

Employment Type

Full-time, Exempt

Reports To

Clinical Director (Jazmin)

Location

Cross-site clinical leadership with primary assignment to KEBM's Inland Empire SoCal region or McDonough GA, as appropriate

Service Setting

Cross-clinic executive clinical oversight with required on-site presence

Credential

Active BCBA Certification · Master's degree required · 5+ years post-certification leadership experience · Multi-site clinical leadership experience preferred · CA licensure / GA LBA as required

Why This Role Exists

The Assistant Clinical Director role exists as the bridge between senior clinical leadership (BCBA Lead) and executive clinical (Clinical Director). This isn't a placeholder or a title inflation — it's a real operational role with its own scope. The ACD partners with the Clinical Director on cross-site clinical operations, holds quality standards across multiple locations, and is the named successor pathway for future Clinical Director seats. KEBM deliberately built this tier so that clinical leadership succession is planned, not improvised.

About Us

We're a five-clinic ABA therapy company with four locations across Southern California and one in Georgia, founded in 2016 by a BCBA with 25+ years in the field. Our team of 68+ professionals delivers evidence-based therapy through our proprietary S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology — and our Sensory Spot locations prove that therapy can actually feel like play.

We serve every client who walks through our doors — insurance-funded, private pay, open play, and camp families alike. We're women-founded, minority-owned, and we don't sacrifice clinical quality for profit. If you want to work somewhere that's serious about outcomes and serious about its people, you're in the right place.

How S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. Work

S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. is our proprietary pod-based group ABA model. Clients are grouped 3–6 per pod at a 1:3 facilitator ratio, with a supervisor always on-site and clinical support always available in every pod. We use a push-in / pull-out model for group and 1:1 work, and BCBAs provide real-time clinical oversight across pods. As a clinical leader, you'll shape how this methodology evolves, how your team is trained to deliver it, and how we measure whether it's actually producing outcomes for clients.

Who We Serve

• Insurance-funded ABA clients (Medi-Cal, Medicare, commercial insurance)
• Private pay therapy clients
• Open play participants at our Sensory Spot locations
• Camp participants — spring break, winter break, summer, and any seasonal KEBM camp
• Consultation clients in adult residential and group home settings (Program Supervisor Master's level and above)

A camp kid gets the same quality of care as an insurance client. An open play family gets the same respect as a full-time ABA family. If that feels natural to you, you're going to fit here. If the idea of treating any of those clients as less-than bothers you, this isn't the place.

The Role — What You'll Actually Do

In this role, you'll:

• Partner with the Clinical Director on cross-site clinical operations — program fidelity, quality standards, clinical staffing decisions, and methodology consistency across all KEBM locations.
• Oversee BCBA Leads across assigned regions — performance evaluation, development planning, clinical quality assurance at the multi-site level.
• Drive clinical program development initiatives — new service line design, S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology evolution, clinical protocol standardization across sites.
• Own clinical strategic initiatives — as assigned by the CD or CCD. Expansion readiness, new site clinical setup, program scaling, clinical audit responses.
• Mentor Clinic Managers, BCBA Leads, and senior BCaBAs/BCBAs — the clinical leadership pipeline is succession-planned, and the ACD is central to that succession.
• Represent the clinical team in executive conversations — when the CD is unavailable or the scope is delegated. Real executive representation, not ceremonial.

In your first 90 days, success looks like:

Full integration with the CD's operational rhythm, regional clinical quality baseline established, first strategic initiative scoped and underway, and succession planning assessment complete for assigned clinical leaders.

Who You Are

You might be perfect for this if:

• You hold your BCBA with 5+ years of leadership experience — multi-site or complex single-site. You've led BCBAs, not just worked alongside them.
• You want the bridge role — real clinical operations with executive-track development. You're building toward Clinical Director and you want to develop under a CD, not in parallel to one.
• You want partnership with the CD (Jazmin) and CCD (Maritza) — not isolation. The clinical leadership team at KEBM is small and integrated, which means visibility and development, not loneliness.
• You're building toward Clinical Director — the named next step. This role is structured as a succession pathway, not a permanent parking lot.

Bonus points if you have:

• Prior multi-site clinical leadership in ABA or adjacent behavioral health
• Clinical program design, scaling, or turnaround experience
• Organizational development or operations coursework/training
• Bilingual (Spanish)
• LBA license in Georgia

What You Get

Compensation

$88,000 – $112,000/year (Exempt, Salaried) — salaried, exempt, published transparently.

We don't play the "competitive compensation" game, and we don't bait candidates with the top of the band and pay the bottom. Where you land in the range depends on credential level, experience, and market — and we'll tell you exactly why during the offer conversation.

Benefits — Full-Time (Executive & Clinical Leadership)

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous PTO
• Paid holidays
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Executive-level CEU budget
• Conference attendance budget
• Professional liability coverage
• Clinical autonomy within the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. framework
• Annual professional development allocation

Growth

At KEBM, your next role isn't hypothetical. We built a 15-step clinical pipeline from Social Skills Assistant through Chief Clinical Director, and every seat has a real compensation band, a real scope of responsibility, and a real path to get there.

Your direct next step from this role: Clinical Director — the named succession path. ACDs who demonstrate excellence are the named internal candidates for future CD seats across KEBM's footprint.

Ask about it in the interview — we'll show you the map.

Culture

We run on the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. framework, which means structured collaboration — not chaos. Our leadership team (COO Lynda, Chief Clinical Director Maritza, Clinical Director Jazmin) actually leads, so you're not reporting into a black hole. Our CEO is a BCBA who built this from the ground up starting at $8.50/hour as a paraeducator in 1999 — she gets what your day looks like.

Physical Requirements

This role is primarily administrative and clinical leadership, with on-site presence across locations. Physical demands are moderate: travel between sites as clinically indicated, periodic participation in clinical sessions, and the standard requirements of running clinical oversight across physically distributed operations.

• Frequent: sitting, standing, walking, keyboarding, travel between KEBM locations
• Occasional: fine manipulation, lifting or carrying 1–25 lbs, stairs, direct participation in clinical sessions
• Crisis readiness: clinical leadership presence during escalations; full crisis intervention training required regardless of current session frequency

The KEBM G-W-C Test

Three questions. Take 60 seconds with them before you apply. If you can answer all three with an honest "yes," send your resume today. If any one is a no, that's information too — we'd rather you filter yourself now than find out three months in.

1. Do you GET IT?

Do you understand what this role actually is — the real work, the hard days, the kids and families we serve? Not the idealized version. The actual job.

2. Do you WANT IT?

Not the paycheck. Not the title. The work itself. Do you want to do this specific job, with these specific clients, inside the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. model?

3. Do you have the CAPACITY?

Time, skill, emotional bandwidth, physical readiness. The capacity question is not whether you're smart or capable — it's whether your current life has room for this role to be done well.

Key Essentials to Behavior Management Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We are women-founded, minority-owned, and committed to hiring without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.