About the role

  • Director of ID/DD Residential Services overseeing operations and compliance in residential programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Leading staffing, management, and operational stabilization in homes.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee all ID/DD residential programs
  • Ensure homes are fully staffed, clean, safe, and compliant
  • Conduct routine and unannounced home visits
  • Respond directly to behavioral escalations, staffing failures, and operational issues
  • Resolve problems immediately and document root causes after stabilization
  • Partner with scheduling leadership to ensure proper coverage
  • Enforce overtime controls, float staff use, and appropriate staffing levels
  • Hold leadership accountable for unauthorized overtime and staffing inefficiencies
  • Authorize reassignment of shifts and initiate corrective action
  • Directly supervise the Program Manager, who oversees House Managers
  • Own residential compliance and risk mitigation
  • Provide regular reporting on staffing, overtime, risks, and compliance

Requirements

  • Minimum Experience Requirements 7–10 years of progressive experience in ID/DD residential, HCBS, or group home operations
  • At least 5 years in a leadership role with direct responsibility for licensed group homes
  • Direct oversight of House Managers (not solely DSP-level supervision)
  • Hands-on management of: Staffing crises and call-outs, Behavioral escalations, Coverage gaps and operational failures
  • Active involvement in regulatory processes, including: DBHDS inspections or audits, Responding to citations or corrective action plans, Managing compliance under regulatory scrutiny
  • Experience conducting: Staff discipline, Performance correction, Terminations when necessary

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonuses: Target annual bonus potential of $5,000–$15,000, tied to: Overtime reduction, Compliance performance, Staff retention, Program stability
  • Full benefits package
  • Relocation assistance available

Job title

Director of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, ID/DD Services

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$80,000 - $85,000 per year

Degree requirement

High School Diploma

Location requirements

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