Senior Clinical Director BCBA Job – Phoenix, AZ

Why You'll Love This Job

The Senior Clinical Director BCBA is an experienced, strategic, and mission-driven individual overseeing multiple centers within a designated region. This leadership role blends clinical oversight, operational management, and team development to ensure high-quality ABA services and exceptional engagement at all levels. As a Senior Clinical Director BCBA, you’ll guide Clinical Directors and Clinical Managers, support organizational growth, and maintain operational excellence. We value leaders who empower others, foster collaboration, and maintain clinician well-being, allowing you to focus on both regional outcomes and transformational care for clients and families. This position supports oversight, development and growth of clinical services. This role is responsible for ensuring that all critical tasks are fulfilled on a timely and high-quality basis.

Responsibilities

Takes all steps necessary to ensure exceptional and highly responsive service to all clients and family members on the part of all department team members.
Lead and support Clinical Directors and Clinical Managers across the region, ensuring high-quality, ethical, and consistent care.
Mentor Clinical Directors to strengthen clinical judgment, leadership capabilities, and accountability.
Manage and mentor Clinical Directors and Clinical Managers to hit performance benchmarks, maintain staff retention, and optimize center capacity.
Identify and proactively address clinical and operational risks to maintain strong regional performance.
Ensure high clinical standards through QA systems, audits, and data-driven decision-making.
Oversee the quality and integrity of assessments, treatment planning, and clinical outcomes.
Support the organization’s growth by streamlining clinical workflows and ensuring quality remains consistent during the scaling process.
Monitor regional performance metrics, identifying trends, gaps, and opportunities.
Partner with Clinical Directors to implement and sustain data-driven improvements.
Support onboarding and ongoing training for clinicians and clinical leaders.
Partner with Clinical Directors and Clinical Managers to ensure consistent, high-quality clinical development across the region.
Lead and support company-wide clinical initiatives and system improvements.
Collaborate with Operations, Training, and HR to align clinical and organizational goals.
Develops and adheres to budgets supporting ABA clinical operations objectives and enterprise mission.
Actively and constructively participates in strategic planning for periods beyond the current year to ensure long-term success of the enterprise as well as continuing and improving benefits to all stakeholders.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, participating in professional societies.
Uses reports to glean trends in the data and provide action-oriented steps to improve or maintain clinical performance.

Skills & Qualifications

Master’s degree in applied Behavior Analysis, Special Education, Psychology or closely related field from an accredited college or university is required.
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) in good standing with the BACB is required.
Arizona licensure as a Licensed Behavior Analyst is required.
5 or more years of clinical and supervisory or managerial experience in the field of autism services with direct facing client service experience is required.
4 or more years of senior management experience supervising licensed professionals within a clinical environment is required.
Experience with skills assessments and curricula (e.g., VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, EFL, AFLS, PEAK), required
Substantial experience with behavioral assessments (e.g., Practical Functional Assessments)
Strong background in behavior reduction program development and oversight.
Active BLS/CPR and Basic First Aid certifications required.
Demonstrates ability to supervise as well as transition seamlessly between strategic and hands-on leadership as all as being sought out for superior training techniques.
Ability to engage and motivate a team toward a common goal.
Ability to communicate knowledge in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to professionals and non-professionals.
Experience providing supervision to BCBAs
Demonstrated ability to ensure adherence to ethical and legal compliance programs.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office including: Word, Power Point, Excel and Outlook.
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
Able and willing to travel to support other clinics based on business needs.
Ability to work independently, pay attention to detail and meet established deadlines.

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