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Director of Administration
As leaders in children’s mental health and wellness, St. Louis Children’s and KVC Health Systems Youth Mental Health Care have partnered to create one of the nation’s most innovative and transformative youth mental health and wellness campuses. The partnership includes a 77-bed acute care hospital and outpatient programs. Located on the KVC Missouri Children’s Mental Wellness Campus, conveniently located in Webster Groves, Missouri, the peaceful environment and broad continuum of care allow children and families to access the appropriate level of treatment throughout their healing experience. The new campus is slated to open in late 2026. Learn more at stlouischildrenskvc.org. Join us and be a part of this journey of healing and hope for thousands of children and teens.
Job Summary
The Director of Administration is responsible for providing respectful and inclusive leadership to KVC’s inpatient and residential programs. They will oversee interdepartmental coordination and manage workflows for the entire facility and/or campus under their purview, and are accountable for the outcomes focused on coordination of departments, project completion, fiscal stability, supply optimization, timely reporting, and maintaining licensing and accreditation.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare administration, Business Administration, Psychology, Social Work, or another related field. Master’s degree preferred.
Licensure/Certification: Valid drivers license and auto insurance. At least 21 years of age.
Experience: Three or more years in leadership and/or managerial experience in a health care setting; behavioral health setting preferred.
Preferred Experience/Skills: Requires intermediate skills in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook email.
Major Duties:
- Accountable for creating and maintaining a safe work environment by providing respectful and inclusive leadership to all employees regardless of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, or ethnic background.
- Interview, hire, and train employees; plan, assign, and direct work and appraise performance.
- Maintain current knowledge of KVC’s operating systems including, but not limited to, EHR and HRIS tools.
- Administrative responsibility for operations of programs to include areas such as policies, procedures, staffing, budgets, equipment and supplies procurement, program compliance and quality assurance.
- Develop and maintain efficient, effective systems for quality client care, records keeping, and safety assurance.
- Manage site’s budget and ensure their compliance with all KVC policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Collaborate with KVC’s hospitals, Inc. team to ensure facility meets or exceeds KDADS, TJC, COA, and other accrediting bodies.
- Oversee their site’s performance improvement and quality assurance activities; obtain, review and maintain reports pertaining to all agency licensing, program audits and subcontractor/contractor audits.
- Collaborates with all management staff to identify and deliver the required administrative support operations for the program.
- Researches major agency purchases for quality performance and competitive rates and participates in vendor negotiations.
- Provides leadership and coordination of strategic plans and identified projects.
- Participates in Medical Management Committee meetings.
- Responsible for coordination with all cooperate departments.
- Oversight of appropriate staffing and training for programs.
- Provides on-call, crisis support.
- Participates in subsidiary meetings as required.
- Participate in community and/or stakeholder forums as needed.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, or hear, and taste or smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit for intermittent amounts of time. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Benefits & More
Employee benefits and culture fall under the KVC Health Systems umbrella. KVC is a family of private, nonprofit organizations that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help people achieve mental health wellness. Through our broad continuum of care, we are proud to be a national leader in mental health, child welfare, and health and human services transformation.
At KVC, we offer a positive, supportive workplace where each person can do work they love. In fact, we’re so proud of our culture that we see it as our top competitive advantage in the health and human services field. Based on the voice of our employees, KVC has an incredible 83 Work Wellbeing score on Indeed, a rating so high and rare that it places KVC among the top 1% of employers nationally. KVC was also named #15 on Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies 2025 list, a recognition achieved entirely based on anonymous employee reviews. In addition to being mission-driven, we offer employees an unparalleled level of flexibility, wellbeing, learning, inclusion, recognition, and rewards.
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