Assistant Director Center Disability Services

Job Description

  • Job code: 011155
  • Pay grade: H
  • Pay type: Exempt/salaried

General summary

Provides leadership for daily operations across programs serving individuals with age-related decline, dementia, intellectual and development disabilities. Supports strategic planning, ensures regulatory compliance, and leads quality improvement efforts. Collaborates with University partners, families, and community agencies to enhance services and advance the Center for Disability Services mission, while promoting recovery-based, person-centered care delivered with cultural sensitivity and respect for each individual.

Major duties

  • Provides leadership and directs the Center for Disability Services.
  • Provides clinical leadership programs for adults with disabilities and age-related decline. Maintains evidence-based practices and knowledge of current trends in the field.
  • Monitors operations to ensure quality outcomes for clients and an educational environment for university students.
  • Collaborates with CHHS leadership and advisory board to communicate operational and financial issues that impact the Center for Disability Services.
  • Collaborates with external constituencies on business and general outreach.
  • Oversees budget, contract billing, and fiscal integrity to maintain financial solvency.
  • Manages and monitors all contracts.
  • Maintains internal and external relationships to ensure the success of the department’s mission.
  • Provides supervision for the Center's program including strategic leadership, develops short term and long-term goals.
  • Hires, Trains and evaluates staff.

Minimum qualifications

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

Required education

  • Master's degree in a related field from an accredited institution

Required experience

  • Three years' relevant experience.
  • Experience in program evaluation, assessment, and data informed decision making, including the ability to analyze data to improve services and report on impact.
  • Management or supervisory experience to develop, implement, evaluate, and lead diverse professional staff.
  • Knowledge of assistive technologies and their application in an educational setting.
  • Experience with budget development and fiscal oversight.
  • Demonstrated experience in implementing institutional policies and procedures in compliance with legal mandates and best practices.
  • Strong analytical thinking, judgment, and problem-solving skills for complex situations involving student rights and institutional obligations.
  • Experience developing and delivering training and workshops for students, faculty, and staff that advance a shared commitment to access, equity, and inclusion.
  • Experience in managing diverse range of client services including cognitively impaired persons as well as aging clients

Required other

  • Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours. Including evenings and weekends

Physical requirements

Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.

Working conditions

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2026-05-27

This description indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees in the above job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.