President and CEO Horizon Healthcare Partners-East Providence, RI

Unique Behavioral Healthcare Leadership Opportunity

Horizon Healthcare Partners (HHP) is conducting a search for its next President and Chief

Executive Officer. This is a unique leadership opportunity to grow a comprehensive state-wide

behavioral healthcare and human service network that is inclusive of Certified Community

Behavioral Health Clinics, Substance Use and Opioid Treatment and Recovery programming,

Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice.

The new CEO must be mission driven, have the capacity to integrate the resources and draw

upon the strengths of partner organizations while adhering to a person-centered and family-

based philosophy that offers empowerment, hope and the right to self-determination and

choice to all populations served by HHP.

Within this context, we are seeking successful CEO applicants that possess the following

attributes:

• Familiarity and understanding of value-based programming such as CCBHC (Certified
• Community Behavioral Health Clinics).
• Experience in program development and managing grants and contracts from public and
• private funding sources.
• Experience with third party billing, cost reimbursement funding and various other service-related payment methodologies.
• The ability to collaborate, negotiate and problem-solve within a systems context among partners and state agencies.
• Advocacy and leadership skills at the legislative and systems level on behalf of populations served by HHP.
• Experience leading a diverse team, personnel management, and related human resources systems.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced leader who is passionate about mission, has a vision

for developing comprehensive and functioning integrated systems of care, continuously

promotes equity and inclusion and is team oriented.

Candidates must have a degree in a relevant Human Services discipline (i.e. Social Work,

Counseling, Health Care Management etc.), have a track record of effective leadership in local,

regional and/or national scaling a performance and outcomes-based organization and its staff.

In short, the ability to develop and operationalize strategies that take an organization to the

next stage programmatically and with respect to equity to assure that people of color and other

marginalized populations have access to HHP resources.

Our ideal candidates will have a strong business sense within the community health and human

services context and is able to balance clinical and financial goals while providing personal

leadership within the organization; including the engagement of leaders and managers at all

levels.

We are looking for a results-driven leader who has experience building and nurturing a

collaborative relationships with broad stakeholder groups board, staff, consumers and

families, communities and a wide range of private and public partners to shape a future of

integrated and innovative systems of care. With a philosophy of shared leadership and

collaboration, the ideal candidate will be politically savvy and an excellent communicator. The

candidate must have a successful track record of leading strategic initiatives while taking care

of business on a day-to-day basis.

We require strong leadership and management execution to continue to build HHPs

infrastructure, increase efficiencies, and identify funding opportunities for its affiliate agencies.

In addition, HHP is committed to developing innovative solutions to rapidly changing individual

and community needs and to address unmet behavioral health and human service needs.

HHP is a private, not-for-profit community-based behavioral health and human services

organization. It is the supporting corporation comprised of:

• The three non-hospital owned community mental health non-profits in Rhode Island:
• Newport Mental Health (NMH), Thrive RI, and Community Care Alliance (CCA)
• A state-wide family services and children's behavioral health provider, Tides Family Services
• Child & Family of Rhode Island which is the states second oldest nonprofit and RIs largest state-wide substance use disorder treatment provider, CODAC.

CCA, which is the largest of the affiliates, is also a large family service provider and Community

Action Program. Together, HHP is well positioned to move to the next level as the premiere

community-based behavioral health and human service provider network in RI and poised to

address the evolution of health and human services to a population health and value-based

payment approach to accountable care.

HHP is governed by a Board of Directors with up to 21 members comprised of the CEO, Board

Members, and a third appointed member from each of the partner organizations. The Board of

Directors is focused on selecting a new President and Chief Executive Officer to secure HHPs

future and lead it to new heights as a premier behavioral healthcare and human service

provider.

To apply for this opening please visit our website: http://www.communitycareri.org and select "Careers", then "Current Openings" to fill out an application, upload your cover letter, and resume.