Core Program Manager

Antioch, CA

📍 Location: Antioch, California
📅 Schedule: Full-Time | Exempt 
💼 Department: Intensive Home Based Services
📈 Reports To: Core Division Director
💰 Salary: $80,000.00
🎁 Bonus: $1,500 Hiring and Continuation Bonus

✨ Make a Meaningful Impact
Aspiranet, one of California’s leading nonprofit organizations supporting children, youth, and families, is seeking a dedicated and mission‑driven Core Program Manager (CPM I) to lead and support our program operations.

This leadership role is essential to ensuring high‑quality services, strong team performance, and compliance with all regulatory, contractual, and agency standards. If you’re passionate about guiding teams, strengthening program outcomes, and supporting youth and families through trauma‑informed, community‑based care, we invite you to bring your expertise to our team.

❤️ About Aspiranet
Founded in 1975, Aspiranet is a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide a continuum of care across California through six service divisions: Foster and Adoption, Transitional Aged Youth, Residential, Intensive Home-Based Services, Behavioral Health, and Family and Community. Every role at Aspiranet contributes to something greater: building a future where every child is loved, every family supported, and every individual equipped to succeed.

📝️ Position Summary
Reporting to the Core Program Director, the Core Program Manager (CPM I) oversees program operations, supervises staff, and ensures adherence to all operational, contractual, and budgetary requirements.

This role provides leadership in hiring, training, performance management, and regulatory compliance. The CPM I also supervises administrative functions, ensures documentation accuracy, and oversees the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessors and Scheduler.

🔍 Key Responsibilities

📋 Program Leadership & Oversight

• Manage program services and staff performance to meet operational, contractual, budgetary, and regulatory standards
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of documentation, reports, and service records
• Implement agency best practices, quality assurance measures, and outcome tracking systems
• Oversee administrative functions including environment of care, documentation compliance, and adherence to agency policies

👥 Staff Supervision & Development

• Hire, train, supervise, and evaluate staff, including performance management
• Conduct regular supervision, including in‑vivo field‑based coaching, shadowing, and modeling
• Provide support across home, school, and community settings, including occasional evenings, weekends, or holidays
• Monitor staff compliance with regulatory updates and funder requirements

🧩 Client & Community Support

• Complete CANS assessments and attend Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings as needed
• Serve as liaison with clients, partners, funders, and community stakeholders
• Report incidents, grievances, and concerns promptly and accurately

🗂️ Administrative & Compliance Responsibilities

• Ensure completion of timesheets, mileage, time‑off requests, credit card submissions, and reimbursements
• Maintain compliance with federal, state, county, and funder regulations
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the Core Program Director

✅ Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field
  OR
  Bachelor’s degree in a related field (when permitted by program, contract, or licensing) and at least two years of experience managing a program in family or community services
• Minimum of two years of experience in a related setting (community‑based, social services, behavioral health, school‑based, or residential)
• Meets all state‑required employment conditions, including:
• DOJ fingerprint and Child Abuse Index clearance
• TB/Health physical
• Valid California Driver’s License and clean driving record
• Meets all federal, state, and county compliance requirements through periodic sanction checks

💻 Work Environment & Schedule

• Program‑based leadership role with regular interaction across staff, clients, and community partners
• Full‑time schedule with flexibility for occasional evenings, weekends, or holidays based on program needs
• May require travel for supervision, meetings, or training

❤️ Why Aspiranet?

• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits package, and a 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching.
• Access to the free Aspiranet Employee Perks Program. Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, wellness, pet care, gym memberships, theme parks, and more
• Flexible paid time off including 11 paid holidays, 10 vacation days, 10 sick leave days, two diversity days, and paid birthday time off.
• Access to our employee assistance program including 24/7 crisis line; up to 6 counseling sessions per issue.
• Training opportunities are available to support your ongoing development and career aspirations.
• Collaborate in a supportive, inclusive, and mission-aligned culture.
• Opportunity to lead meaningful initiatives that support employee well-being.

🏋️Physical Demands

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

This position typically operates in a standard office environment. The noise level is generally quiet and remains within OSHA’s established safety levels at all times.

⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunity

Aspiranet is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. We believe a diverse workforce within a culture of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) increases creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and teamwork for the youth and families that we serve and the organization as a whole.  Aspiranet strives to provide our employees with a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive of differing world views, cultures, and lived experiences.

📝  How to Apply

Join us in building brighter futures.

Apply today through our career portal:

✨ Click here to apply: www.aspiranet.org/careers

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