Outreach and Community Partner - Part-Time

Ellie Mental Health; Freehold (NJ); On-site; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage reimbursement

Flexible scheduling

Job summary

Ellie Mental Health in New Jersey is seeking an Outreach & Community Partner to build referral relationships and raise our community presence across Woodbridge and Freehold. This part-time role requires travel between two offices, a proactive approach, and the ability to track contacts and outcomes.

You will engage with primary care offices, schools, hospitals, and community groups, coordinate outreach events, and report monthly on activity and referrals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, public health, communications, marketing, or a related field.
• An associate’s degree in a related field, coupled with five years of experience.
• Strong interpersonal and public speaking skills; comfortable starting conversations and following up.
• Self-directed and organized, with the ability to manage a schedule across two locations.
• Reliable transportation and a valid driver's license for local travel.
• Comfort with basic tools for tracking contacts and reporting (spreadsheets, CRM, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out outreach activities to build referral relationships and community presence.
• Log every contact and follow-up in our tracking system and maintain referral partner list.
• Coordinate with clinical and front-desk staff so partner referrals are handled quickly and warmly.
• Report monthly on outreach activity, new partnerships, and referral trends by location.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Public speaking

Self-directed

Organized

Driver's license

Local travel

CRM basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, public health, communications, marketing, or related field

Associate’s degree + 5 years of experience

Tools

Spreadsheets

CRM

Job description

About Ellie Mental Health

Ellie Mental Health is a group psychotherapy practice serving New Jersey in person and virtually. We have an established office in Woodbridge and are opening a new location in Freehold. Our goal is to make quality mental health care visible, approachable, and easy to access in the communities we serve.

Position Summary

The Outreach & Community Partner builds the referral relationships and community presence that bring new clients to our Woodbridge and Freehold offices. This is a part-time role focused on targeted, planned touch points with providers and organizations most likely to refer to us. You will represent Ellie in the community, track every contact, and report what is working.

Locations: Woodbridge, NJ and Freehold, NJ (local travel between both service areas required)

Employment type: Part-time

Reports to: Practice Director

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and carry out a monthly calendar of 100-125 touch points for each location: in-person visits, drop-offs, presentations, calls, and follow-up emails.
• Build and maintain referral relationships with primary care and pediatric offices, schools and school counselors, colleges, hospitals, urgent care, and other healthcare providers.
• Develop partnerships with community organizations, faith communities, employers and HR teams, gyms and wellness businesses, libraries, and local chambers of commerce, etc.
• Represent Ellie at community events, health fairs, networking groups, and workshops in the Woodbridge and Freehold areas.
• Introduce the Freehold office to the surrounding Monmouth County community and support its launch.
• Keep partners current on our services, clinicians, insurance accepted, and availability.
• Distribute and help develop brochures, referral cards, and other outreach materials.
• Log every contact and follow-up in our tracking system and maintain an up-to-date referral partner list.
• Report monthly on outreach activity, new partnerships, and referral trends by location.
• Coordinate with clinical and front-desk staff so partner referrals are handled quickly and warmly.
• Follow HIPAA and practice confidentiality standards in all outreach activity.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, public health, communications, marketing, or a related field.
• An associate’s degree in a related field, coupled with five years of experience.
• Strong interpersonal and public speaking skills; comfortable starting conversations and following up.
• Self-directed and organized, with the ability to manage a schedule across two locations.
• Reliable transportation and a valid driver's license for local travel.
• Comfort with basic tools for tracking contacts and reporting (spreadsheets, CRM, or similar).

Preferred

• Bachelor or Master's degree in a mental health, social services, or public health field is welcomed.
• Experience in community outreach, healthcare marketing, referral development, or behavioral health.
• Existing connections in Middlesex County or Monmouth County.
• Bilingual skills, especially Spanish.

Schedule And Compensation

Hours: Part-time, 15–20 hours per week, with flexible daytime scheduling and occasional evening or weekend events.

Pay: $25–$30 per hour, based on education and experience. Mileage reimbursement for approved outreach travel.

What we offer: A mission-driven team, a direct role in growing a new location, and flexibility to shape how Ellie shows up in the community.

Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.

Don’t meet EVERY requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Ellie Mental Health is devoted to purposefully building an inclusive and diverse workplace where all of our humans can be their authentic selves! (Authenticity is one of our core values, after all…)

If you’re excited about the chance to be a change‑maker with us, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every single qualification of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Our mental health jobs need dedicated individuals from every background who are willing to care for others. And who knows, you might just be the perfect candidate for another role!

Employee Experience

We take care of our people. It’s that simple. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry to reasonable caseload expectations we ensure that our people are happy. Happy employees do better work and provide better client care! No matter what it is that you do in your mental health career at Ellie, our clients depend on us cultivating an environment where our employees can thrive so that they can thrive too!

Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.

We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!

Company Structure

Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness‑focused companies are non‑profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”

Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, and even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision‑making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.

Ellie Mental Health is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour

In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?