Clinical Education Manager

About the Position

The Clinical Education Manager (CEM) is an integral leader within the LiftED Horizons team at Colorado LiftED Foundation (CLF). The CEM drives the growth and development of our clinicians and the clinical learning of our broader team — designing the training, supervision, and education infrastructure that lets CLF deliver accessible, culturally affirming, trauma-responsive, and healing-centered mental health care. This role focuses on strengthening clinical quality, training, supervision structures, and professional growth — maintaining the highest standards of ethical and evidence-based care.

This role lives all five CLF values:

A Seat at the Table
–  We believe those most impacted by our decisions should have the most meaningful voice in making them. You will carry that belief into every interaction with youth, families, and community partners — and into how clinicians are trained to approach this work in a community-based clinical environment

Once a Dreamer, Always a Dreamer –  This role is custodian of CLF's most important promise: that we stay. You will build the programs, pipelines, and partnerships that ensure CLF is present across the full journey of every young person who has ever called us home.

An Inch Wide, A Mile Deep –  You will invest deeply in a focused group of clinicians and interns, supervising with the depth and care that allows them to do the same for the youth and families we walk alongside.

Whatever It Takes – CLF does not accept "we can't" as a final answer. You will bring that same orientation to every challenge: persistent, creative, and unwilling to leave a young person, or a person who learns alongside us, without what they need.

We Not Me – No single person or organization can do this work alone. You will be a connector, a collaborator, and a keeper of relationships that make our clinical impact possible.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Education & Workforce Development

• Education Strategy: Design, lead, and continuously evolve CLF's clinical education strategy — defining what clinicians, interns, and program staff need to learn, when, and how, to deliver care that reflects our values and meets community need.
• Internship Management: Oversee daily operations of therapeutic services for all interns across all programs.
• Internal Training & Professional Development Design: Develop and facilitate internal professional development for clinical staff and broader program team members (afterschool, summer camp, leadership) on trauma-responsive practice, healing-centered engagement, ethics, cultural humility, and clinical skill-building.
• Internship Program Leadership: Lead the strategy and growth of CLF's clinical internship program — including university partnerships, intern selection, spervision pathways, and the Pathway to Fellowship.
• Supervision Model: Build and maintain a structured supervision model and promote fidelity to CLF's clinical therapeutic approaches.
• Continuity of Care: Train and equip clinicians to honor Once a Dreamer, Always a Dreamer in clinical practice — building therapeutic relationships and transition plans that recognizing CLF's commitment to youth and client’s doesn't end when a treatment episode does.
• Values-Rooted Training Culture: Build a training culture where clinicians understand the ”why“ behind CLF’s values—helping them see how Once a Dreamer shapes long-term therapeutic relationships, and how A Seat at the Table changes how they approach informed consent and treatment planning.
• Onboarding: Support onboarding processes related to clinical service operations.

Field Supervision & Crisis Partnership 

• In-Vivo Supervision: Rotate across CLF's therapy spaces based on intern placement — providing real-time, in-vivo supervision, observation, and coaching that brings clinical training directly into the practice setting. (Note: day-to-day on-site operational and clinical point-of-contact responsibilities sit with the Therapeutic Services Manager.)
• Crisis Partnership: Serve as a clinical and supervisory partner to the Director of Therapeutic Services and Senior Director of Clinical Programs in responding to clinical emergencies, particularly when interns are involved, ensuring safe, ethical, and timely intervention.

Supervision Practice & Leadership

• Depth of Practice: Model and reinforce a supervision culture that goes an inch wide and a mile deep — knowing each clinician's caseload, growth edges, and client relationships well enough to support both individual and clinical development with intention.
• Case Planning: Assist interns in case planning and treatment alignment that centers the client and family as co-authors of their own care and coordinating consultation resources as needed.
• Integrity: Partner with licensed supervisors to ensure clinical standards and documentation quality are upheld.

Clinical Quality & Practice Integrity

• Ethics: Support alignment with ethical standards and licensure requirements.
• Client & Family Voice: Build feedback structures into clinical quality work so that the people most impacted by our care help shape how we evaluate and improve it. 
• Implementation: Assist with the implementation of clinical policies and procedures by all clinical interns.
• Adherence: Help monitor adherence to clinical documentation standards across  by all clinical interns.

Program Operations & Service Delivery

• Caseload Oversight: Manage intern caseloads, scheduling, and coverage.
• Tracking: Support tracking of clinical outcomes, progress indicators, and service effectiveness.
• Flow Coordination: Partner with the Director Therapeutic Services to monitor client assignments, transitions, discharges, waitlist movement, and intake timelines.
• Standards: Ensure consistency in service delivery practices and compliance with state/federal standards of care — while protecting the depth and individualization that define CLF's clinical work. 

Collaboration & Partnerships

• University Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for University partners related to internship programs.
• Workforce Pipeline: Cultivate relationships with MSW and counseling programs to build a long-term talent pipeline, supporting intern-to-staff pathways and CLF’s presence in the training community.
• Alignment: Support alignment between clinical services and various program environments.
• Staffing: Collaborate with the Manager of Therapeutic Services on staffing readiness and supervision needs.

Enrollment & Community Engagement

• Public Awareness: Elevate awareness of CLF's career pipeline to expand access for families — removing barriers between our community and the care they deserve.
• Intern Pipeline: Maintain relationships with university partners to sustain a robust clinical intern pathway.

Skills & Qualifications

• Education: Master’s in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field.
• License: Active Colorado clinical licensure is required (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or equivalent).
• Certification: Successful completion of Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) coursework or related content; active ACS credential preferred.
• Professional Experience: Minimum of 3 years of professional experience, including leadership in behavioral health, school-based mental health, or nonprofit settings.
• Clinical Expertise: Exceptional clinical skills and a deep understanding of child, youth, and family development.
• Managerial Skills: A proven record of coaching and clinical supervision, training, or program development with compassion, clarity, and structure.
• Analysis & Strategy: Skilled in data-driven program design, continuous improvement, and budget management.
• Service Delivery Excellence: Proven excellence with mental health service delivery in a community-based setting, with a thorough understanding of various therapeutic modalities to meet client needs and move them toward therapeutic goals—while coaching others to do the same.
• Community Engagement: Demonstrated ability to engage youth, families, schools, and partners in a shared vision and co-creation.
• Long-Term Commitment: A genuine belief that meaningful clinical change takes time, and that CLF's relationship with a young person outlasts any treatment episode.
• Persistent Problem-Solving: A "whatever it takes" orientation to the barriers that show up in community mental health work — creative, tenacious, unwilling to accept access gaps as fixed.
• Knowledge & Commitment: Deep understanding of therapeutic best practices, ethics, community mental health, and trauma-responsive care.
• Finance: Proven experience in Medicaid billing, coding oversight, and financial management of clinical services.
• A demonstrated practice of centering client and family voice in clinical supervision, training, and quality improvement.

Requirements

• Deep Knowledge: Understanding of therapeutic best practices, ethics, community mental health, and trauma-responsive care.
• Values Alignment: Demonstrated belief in and lived practice of CLF's core values: A Seat at the Table, We Not Me, Whatever It Takes, An Inch Wide / A Mile Deep, and Once a Dreamer, Always a Dreamer — with a track record of translating those values into clinical leadership decisions.
• Inclusive Leadership: A proven track record of modeling an organizational culture that fosters equity, inclusion, and a true sense of belonging.
• Flexibility: Ability to work nights, weekends, and special events as needed.
• Compliance: Ability to pass a comprehensive fingerprint background check.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $70,000 - $85,000 (Salaried/Exempt).
• Benefits: Full health, dental, and vision coverage; life insurance; 401(k) matching program.
• Time Off: Paid time off, including holidays and birthdays.
• Growth: Professional development opportunities and a supportive team culture emphasizing wellness and reflection.

Intent and Function of Job Description

This description illustrates the job functions and basic duties, including “peripheral tasks” considered “other duties as assigned.” This list is not all-inclusive; supervisors may assign additional responsibilities as deemed appropriate.

Commitment to Equity

Colorado LiftED Foundation is dedicated to equal employment opportunities and fair labor practices. We provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and the ability to perform a job without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religious creed, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, legally protected medical condition, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other basis made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

Our policy is to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment, or bias. We invite all qualified candidates who share our mission to apply.

Salary : $70,000 - $85,000