Clinical Program Director

Jubilee Housing is partnering with Dragonfly Central to find a Clinical Program Director for the KEB Reentry Program. This is a new position that requires a candidate who possesses a LICSW and has the heart for returning citizens who need support to reenter the workforce.

About Jubilee Housing

The mission of Jubilee Housing is to build diverse, compassionate communities that create opportunities for everyone to thrive. Since 1973, Jubilee has worked to provide high-quality affordable housing and holistic support to individuals and families in the Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington D.C. Jubilee operates more than a dozen properties totaling over 500 homes and has an active development pipeline of new affordable housing, including D.C.'s first urban aquaponics and hydroponics farm located in the basement and rooftop of one of our buildings. Jubilee also offers robust programming for residents and community members as they pursue life goals.

Jubilee's Justice Housing® model is built on the principle of providing deeply affordable homes with onsite or nearby services located in neighborhoods where resources such as good schools, grocery stores, and public transportation are readily accessible. Jubilee is seeking individuals who want to work with us to ensure Justice Housing becomes a reality for all who need it. For more information about Jubilee Housing, see https://jubileehousing.org .

The Position

The Clinician is the founding clinical hire for KEB, Jubilee's new workforce housing program for returning citizens. The Clinician is the clinical anchor of the program, supporting the emotional wellbeing, recovery, health, and stability of KEB's 18 residents so they are ready to take on workforce development and sustain it.

As a founding team member, the Clinician helps build the assessments, protocols, and team practices the program will run on. Once KEB opens, the Clinician uses that work every day, providing counseling, assessment, and clinical support directly to residents. We are looking for someone who is energized by building a system from scratch and just as energized by working one-on-one with residents, in a program where the two feed each other. The right candidate has a start-up mindset, is comfortable with ambiguity, and adapts as the program grows.

KEB is built on whole person development. Returning citizens often struggle more with keeping a job than with getting one, in part because of the lasting effects of incarceration. At KEB, stabilization comes before progression. The Clinician makes sure that healing work, self-reflection, and emotional readiness are part of every resident's path, alongside skill-building and career goals. This role is dedicated to KEB residents and works daily with the Director of Workforce Development, the case management team, and housing staff as one multidisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities

Resident Assessment and Stability

• Assess each applicant's baseline readiness for shared living, sobriety and self-management, and commitment to a program of study or credential, and contribute clinical input to admissions.
• Reassess residents on a regular schedule, including socio-emotional wellbeing, self-esteem, self-forgiveness, and recovery, and use the results to guide each resident's pace, level of support, and readiness for intensive workforce programming.
• Watch for early signs of destabilization, including compliance on the surface without real progress underneath, and respond with the resident and the team.
• Build the program's assessment tools and clinical protocols before residents arrive, and refine them with real use.

Therapeutic and Recovery Support

• Provide individual counseling and regular one-on-one clinical check-ins in a trauma-informed, strengths-based manner.
• Support recovery and relapse prevention, including connection to recovery meetings and community resources.
• Deliver or oversee SUCCEED, a thirteen-session curriculum, and group programming on stress management, self-regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness.
• Provide life-skills support, including healthy living and decision-making.
• Oversee residents' broader health outcomes, conduct medication check-ins, and refer residents to outside medical and behavioral health providers when care falls outside the program's clinical scope.
• Respond to crises and coordinate with emergency and community providers.

Team and Resident Planning

• Serve as the clinical anchor within case management, tracking the social, emotional, recovery, and medical dimensions of each resident's case with case managers.
• Work with the Director of Workforce Development to develop each resident's individualized plan in the Resident Program Agreement and update it at each reassessment.
• Participate in ‘Staffings,’ the multidisciplinary team meetings held when a resident is not meeting program obligations, to bring a clinical perspective and help identify conditions for success.
• Help residents build circles of support, and help new team members learn the program's whole person approach.

Records, Partnerships, and Outcomes

• Maintain clinical records in line with HIPAA and LICSW standards, and set up confidentiality and release-of-information procedures.
• Build relationships with behavioral health, substance use treatment, medical, and community providers.
• Track and report outcomes, including mental health and recovery outcomes, program engagement, crisis incidents, medication adherence, health referral follow-through, and participant satisfaction.

Experience and Attributes

• Master’s degree in Social Work and an active Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) license in the District of Columbia, or eligibility to obtain DC licensure before the position’s start date.
• 3+ years of post-licensure clinical experience with adults in community, housing, behavioral health, or reentry settings.
• Experience working with people who have been incarcerated, or with populations managing trauma, substance use, or co-occurring conditions.
• Training in trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches and in evidence-based modalities such as DBT, CBT, or motivational interviewing.
• A start-up mindset: comfort building new tools and programs, working through ambiguity, and adapting as team structures change, alongside a strong commitment to direct service.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and explain a clinical perspective plainly to non-clinical colleagues.
• Strong documentation skills and experience with data tracking and program reporting.
• Personal lived experience with the criminal justice system is valued and welcomed.

The base salary will be between $110-$120K, commensurate with experience. Benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, STD, LTD, and life insurances, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, transportation stipend, and a 403(b) matched contribution retirement plan.

The candidate for this position will be subject to a drug screening, and will be required to consent to a preemployment background and reference check including employment and education verification as a condition of employment.

Application Process

Please email your chronological resume, a cover letter that states why you would be an ideal candidate for this position, and how you learned of this position to JubileeClinical7@dragonflycentral.org. For

other inquiries, please contact Ginna Goodenow at Ginna@dragonflycentral.org .

Jubilee Housing is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, STD, LTD, and life insurances, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, transportation stipend, and a 403(b) matched contribution retirement plan.

Must speak native English.