Behavioral Health Data & Analytics Director

JBS International; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) options including JBS contribu.

Tuition assistance

Professional membership reimbursement

Employee recognition program

Employee service awards

Medical, dental, vision care

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Flexible work schedules and remote -

Life insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

JBS International is seeking a Behavioral Health Data & Analytics Director to lead a nationally significant program focused on collecting, analyzing, and using behavioral health data. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and partner with federal agencies, states, and providers to deliver reliable data and high-quality services.

The role requires 15+ years of federal program leadership, executive communication skills, and a track record in cloud modernization and data privacy.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in behavioral health, public health, statistics, survey methodology, research, information systems, business administration, public administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex federal programs including senior responsibility for multi-year project delivery, client relationships, budgets, workforce performance, quality, risk, and subcontractors.
• English fluency, oral and written.
• Ability to attain a Public Trust Clearance

Responsibilities

• Lead a complex, nationally significant program that supports behavioral health data collection, analysis, and use.
• Guide a multidisciplinary team and ensure reliable data, modern technology, and high-quality public-facing resources.
• Manage program governance, schedule, budget, and deliverables across multiple stakeholders.
• Lead executive-level meetings, provide status updates, and ensure action item follow-through.
• Oversee data operations, including surveys, data submissions, processing, and dissemination.
• Ensure compliance with contractual, security, accessibility, and documentation standards.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Federal programs

Data systems

Communication

Education

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

As a JBS employee, you’ll feel good about the work you do here. That’s because you’ll be contributing to the mission of creating positive, sustainable change in health care, social services, education, and society.

You’ll also feel well supported. We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages, recognition of your contributions, and policies to encourage a healthy work-life balance.

Just as importantly, you’ll be secure in the knowledge that working here means more than taking on a particular job—it’s a means of moving forward in your career. We’ll provide you with educational opportunities, offer mentorship and training, and give you plenty of opportunity to apply and refine your skills. Our large array of contracts with major public-sector agencies and organizations provides opportunities for advancement, new learning, and variety.

Our values are at the core of everything we do, with you and for you.

Determination

JBS is driven. We commit to finding best-fit solutions. We are direct and purposeful in action.

JBS is innovative. We connect dots that no one else does. We are insightful, forward thinking, and courageous.

Integrity

JBS is principled. We hold ourselves and one another accountable for outcomes. We seek feedback for continuous improvement.

Passion

JBS is passionate. We individually and collectively strive toward what can be. We believe in the power of the communities and people we serve and in giving back to the world we live in.

Agility

JBS is agile. We embrace a world that is always changing and evolving. We anticipate and act to address emerging needs.

Teamwork

JBS is collaborative. We respect one another and value alternative perspectives. We share a unified sense of purpose.

At JBS every project touches the lives of real people. Learn more about how you can make an impact.

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Investing in Our Employees

In addition to providing meaningful work, JBS offers a competitive range of benefits.

Compensation and Retirement Contributions

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) options including JBS contributions

Career Growth and Recognition

• Tuition assistance
• Professional membership reimbursement
• Employee recognition program
• Employee service awards

Health, Wellness, and Time Off

• Medical, dental, prescription, and vision care
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Flexible work schedules and remote working opportunities
• Employee assistance program
• Life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts (health and dependent care)

JBS is an equal opportunity employer who makes decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, read our EEO Policy.

Behavioral Health Data & Analytics Director

Posted 2 days ago

At JBS International, our work is driven by a simple but powerful purpose: improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of individuals, families, and communities. Every day, our team partners with federal agencies, states, health systems, and community organizations to solve complex public health and human services challenges and create lasting, measurable impact. With more than 250 professionals nationwide, JBS combines deep subject matter expertise, innovative technology, and a collaborative culture to help clients improve outcomes in behavioral health, public health, child welfare, health care, and social services.

When you join JBS International, you become part of a mission-driven team dedicated to improving health, well-being, and quality of life for individuals and communities nationwide. You'll collaborate with talented professionals, lead meaningful work, and help solve some of the nation’s most complex public health and human services challenges. Backed by the strength and resources of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and the Celerian Group family of companies, JBS offers the stability of a large organization with the agility, innovation, and collaborative culture of a specialized consulting firm.

POSITION SUMMARY

As Project Director, you will have the opportunity to lead a complex, nationally significant program that supports the collection, analysis, and use of behavioral health data. You will serve as a trusted partner to the client, guide a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, and ensure that the program delivers reliable data, modern technology, responsive technical assistance, and high-quality public-facing resources. The Project Director serves as the primary point of accountability to the client and ensures coordinated performance across behavioral health subject matter expertise, survey operations, state data reporting, statistical analysis, technical assistance, cloud modernization, cybersecurity, public-facing services, and dissemination.

This role establishes the program governance and management infrastructure needed to sustain uninterrupted operations, protect data integrity and confidentiality, meet schedule and budget commitments, and deliver accurate, accessible, timely, and reproducible products. The Project Director leads a multidisciplinary team and works closely with designated project management, technical, statistical, survey, security, implementation, accessibility, communications, and quality leaders.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Serve as the primary point of accountability for contract performance, client outcomes, issue resolution, and mission results.

Build and maintain transparent, responsive working relationships with the client, government partners, states, territories, treatment facilities, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.

Translate contractual requirements and client priorities into integrated work plans, decision structures, staffing assignments, performance measures, and deliverable schedules.

Lead executive-level meetings, provide clear status and decision briefings, and ensure timely follow-through on client direction, approvals, risks, and action items.

Lead interconnected behavioral health data programs spanning national surveys, administrative data collections, analytics, technical assistance, system modernization, and public-facing services.

Use data to strengthen performance by monitoring results, anticipating risks, resolving challenges, and driving continuous improvement.

Build stakeholder-centric reporting and dashboards that empowers policymakers to make rapid, confident, evidence-based decisions.

Guide national data operations encompassing survey administration, outreach, data submission, validation, processing, integration, quality assurance, analysis, and dissemination.

Advance technology and innovation by overseeing cloud modernization, cybersecurity, privacy, Authority to Operate activities, accessibility, human-centered design, and open-source development.

Strengthen state and facility capabilities through responsive technical assistance, stakeholder engagement, and targeted strategies to improve data quality, completeness, and timeliness.

Lead and develop an exceptional team of behavioral health experts, statisticians, researchers, data analysts, technical assistance professionals, technology specialists, and project managers.

Manage program resources responsibly by overseeing budgets, forecasts, staffing, subcontractors, consultants, and expenditure controls.

Champion quality and accountability by ensuring all services and deliverables meet contractual, technical, security, accessibility, and documentation standards.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Master's degree in behavioral health, public health, statistics, survey methodology, research, information systems, business administration, public administration, or a related field.

Experience: Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex federal health, behavioral health, statistical, research, data systems, survey, analytics, or technology programs, including senior responsibility for multi-year project delivery, client relationships, budgets, workforce performance, quality, risk, and subcontractors.

Language: English fluency, oral and written.

Security Clearance: Ability to attain a Public Trust Clearance

Location: This position operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring 2 days per week on site at our headquarters in North Bethesda, MD.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND CAPABILITIES

Demonstrated experience leading large, multi-component federal programs of comparable complexity, preferably involving national behavioral health or public health data systems.

Understanding of substance use and mental health treatment service systems and the federal, state, territorial, provider, and facility environments that generate and use behavioral health data.

Demonstrated ability to manage national survey operations, state administrative data collections, statistical analysis, disclosure protection, reporting, and public dissemination.

Experience leading transition, continuity of operations, risk management, quality assurance, schedule control, budget management, staffing, and transparent deliverable tracking.

Working knowledge of federal cloud modernization, ATO processes, privacy and security, Section 508 accessibility, open-source development, reproducible code, and public-domain deliverables.

Demonstrated success hiring, developing, supervising, and retaining multidisciplinary teams and managing subcontractors and consultants.

Executive-level written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to explain complex data, technical, operational, and program issues to varied audiences.

Physical Requirements:

Ability to sit forprolonged periods at a desk or computer workstation.

Regularly uses a computer, keyboard, and mouse.

Standard or corrected vision to read documents, view computer screens, and perform tasks that require visual accuracy.

Ability to hear and understand spoken information in person and over the phone.

Minimal lifting and carrying may be required, typically light office supplies or documents.

Ability to move within the office environment to access equipment, files, and interact with colleagues.

Ability to handle occasional stress related to deadlines, workloads, or challenging tasks.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Doctoral degree in a relevant field.

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Direct experience with behavioral health surveys, data sets and related collections and services, including federal and state systems.

Experience leading federal cloud migration or modernization in AWS or another HHS-approved cloud environment and coordinating ATO activities.

Additional credentials relevant to the assignment, such as PgMP, PMI-ACP, Lean Six Sigma, Prosci Change Management, AWS certification, cybersecurity certification, or a comparable credential.

Fluency in Spanish or another language relevant to stakeholder and participant support.

OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED: This position description should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the position, nor will it be the sole basis for any subsequent employee evaluations. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform any other related duties as may be required by their supervisor.

This position is subject to availability of funds and to any and all restrictions contained in the contract or contracts that provide funding for this position.

Salary Range: $158,750 - $216,250 annually.

Compensation is determined by years of directly relevant experience, education, certifications, specialized skills, contract labor category requirements, and internal equity considerations. Final salary offers may vary within the posted range.

JBS International provides a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement savings, paid time off, and other employee programs.