Consultant, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $80k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

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The Jed Foundation (JED)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1998

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Non-profit • Education • Healthcare Insurance

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 (approx. 15 school districts) to ensure success throughout program engagement. • Assist districts in developing and executing strategic plans and measuring the efficacy of their mental health promotion efforts. • Provide ongoing support and serve as a resource consultant to participating JED districts, schools, and JED program staff on mental health promotion, suicide, and substance abuse programming. • Conduct programmatic reviews and analyze student data of assigned districts to inform support provided to schools, drafting feedback reports and executive summaries for stakeholders. • Oversee project timelines and monitor an institution’s progress to ensure districts are meeting program milestones in a timely manner. • Serve as content expert regarding best practices in policies, procedures, and practices in PK-12 school mental health and suicide prevention, acting as a subject matter expert during all phases of JED’s DMHI. • Collaborate with leadership to update programmatic materials and work closely with the School Programs Division on assigned projects, team culture, and education programming. • Utilize Salesforce to record and codify contacts with participating schools, tracking progress, types of intervention, and utilization of resources.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of master’s level training in education, educational leadership, counseling, psychology, social work, or related field (LPC, MSW, MPH, MED, and early to mid-career PhD degree-holders encouraged to apply). • Strong technical knowledge of school-based mental health, Social Emotional Learning, suicide prevention, and substance use prevention. • Experience in school or system-level leadership, and experience leading, building, and managing PK-12 education programs. • Deep knowledge of PK-12 school systems and systems-level change, including data, daily operations, and the current educational landscape. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in drafting report-style formats, with attention to detail. • Excellent presentation skills with experience and comfort presenting to large groups, including senior leadership. • Self-driven and results-oriented with strong research, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to travel to campuses, conferences, and JED headquarters in NYC regularly (up to 30% travel) and reside within approx. 60 min of an airport.

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