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The Administrator on Duty (AOD) is responsible for monitoring safety and procedures within the units and overall facilities. 

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees staffing including directing and assigning work and ensuring ratios are met.
• Ensures effective quality of care is provided including promoting and implementing healthy well-being by ensuring a clean, safe environment; ensures the dorms are kept in accordance with standards required by regulatory agencies.
• Monitors facility for safety and security including but not limited to staff and building checks, checks within each dorm, and addresses any security breaches. Documents and reports breaches and response taken. Monitors and assesses youth transitions throughout facility.
• Identifies and communicates areas of risk including but not limited to transition of youth, ratios, restraints, safety plans and injuries. Consults with management regarding risk reporting protocols, safety planning, follow up plans, and reducing future risk and program outcomes data.
• Assists with coordinating and conducting searches of youth facility.
• Partners with the facility’s medical and case management staff to ensure health, safety, and well-being of youth.
• Partners with facility and custodial maintenance staff to ensure maintenance of building at all times.
• Provides on-call administrative oversight.
• Oversees intakes of youth.
• Adheres to agency policies and procedures; follows and supports agency mission, vision and values including participating in internal surveys and data collection for continuous improvement initiatives.
• This position will comply will all federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, SCOC, and COA.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Requirements

• Minimum Associates degree required. Experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of experience working with high-risk youth in residential treatment setting.
• Supervisory experience required; 1-2 years minimum.
• Must maintain First Aid/CPR and TCI train the trainer certification.
• Must have a valid driver's license and clean driving record. Travel required.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights and weekends as necessary. Subject-to-call hours are required.

Pay & Schedule:

• Salary: $70,000 Yearly.
• Flexibility in shift is needed.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. 

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where diversity is valued and recognized as a source of strength and enrichment. We seek to attract talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. 

As a federal contractor, Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)