Consultant, Mental Health – Suicide Prevention

🕒 October 7

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $80k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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The Jed Foundation (JED)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Consulting • Non-profit

The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting emotional health and preventing suicide among teens and young adults. It provides resources and programs to equip young people with the skills and support they need to thrive and address mental health challenges. JED partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs. The foundation also focuses on community mobilization to raise awareness and encourage action for young adult mental health. Through educational resources, training programs, and collaborations, JED aims to create a supportive environment for youth mental well-being.

📋 Description

• Build relationships with school contacts within an assigned portfolio of approximately 30 schools • Assist schools in developing and executing strategic plans and measuring mental health promotion efforts • Provide ongoing support on mental health promotion, suicide and substance abuse programming, services, and policies • Serve as a resource consultant to schools, school systems, and JED program staff • Conduct programmatic reviews of internal systems within a portfolio of schools • Analyze student data and draft feedback reports and executive summaries • Aid ongoing assessment and benchmark school work against a measurement rubric • Use Salesforce to record and codify school contacts, progress, interventions, and resource utilization • Build and maintain relationships with high school and district faculty, staff, and leaders • Monitor engagement progress, oversee project timelines, and ensure program milestones are met • Serve as a content expert in PK-12 school mental health and suicide prevention best practices • Support content development, facilitate convenings and learning series, and update programmatic materials • Provide technical and analytical support, including landscape analyses and report generation • Assist with mental health resources, presentations, training, workshops, and educational programming • Support internal mental health and related projects as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of master’s level training in education, educational leadership, counseling, psychology, social work, or related field required • At least 5-7 years professional experience working within, or in direct partnership with PK-12 schools and school districts • Strong technical knowledge of school based mental health, Social Emotional Learning, suicide prevention, and substance use prevention • Deep knowledge of PK-12 school systems and systems-level change, including data, daily operations, and the current educational landscape • Strong research, analytical, and critical thinking abilities, with the ability to analyze and apply data • Experience leading, building, and managing secondary education programs and collaborating with education leaders • Excellent verbal communication • Excellent written communication and report-style drafting experience • Excellent presentation skills and comfort presenting to large groups, including senior leadership • Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills • Experience with Asana, Salesforce or other CRM and project management systems strongly preferred • Ability to travel to schools, conferences, other JED engagements nationwide, and JED headquarters in NYC regularly (30% travel)