Voice Up Founding LCSW Team 100% Remote Transform Our Health
Founding Director, Behavioral Health Innovation (LCSW)
Organization: Voice Up / Universities of Practice Initiative
Location: Remote / Hybrid (with university and community partnerships)
Time Commitment:
Year 1: 3 4 hours/week
Year 2: 10 12 hours/week
Year 3: Full-Time Executive Role
Position Overview
We are seeking a Founding Director (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) to lead the development of a next-generation behavioral health workforce and engagement model grounded in the Naming Gap Trilogy and 8-week learning systems.
This is a founding-stage, builder role for an LCSW who understands that:
Disengagement is often a system design issue, not a client deficit
Workforce shortages are often pipeline and perception challenges
Clinical insight must extend beyond therapy into systems, access, and participation design
The Director will lead the clinical and strategic alignment of a program that connects:
Students (undergraduate, graduate, doctoral)
Community members
Behavioral health career pathways
Universities and institutional partners
Why This Role Exists
This initiative is built on a core insight:
Capable people are often unseen not because they lack ability, but because systems fail to recognize, name, and connect their experience to meaningful pathways.
The Director ensures this model is:
Clinically sound
Ethically aligned
Scalable across institutions
Positioned for major funding opportunities
Key Responsibilities
1. Clinical & Ethical Oversight
Ensure alignment with LCSW standards and ethical guidelines
Define boundaries between:
Clinical services
Non-clinical engagement (CHWs, students, peers)
Integrate trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices
2. Program Design & Implementation
Co-design and oversee:
8-week behavioral health engagement modules
Workforce pathway experiences
Ensure alignment with:
Behavioral health workforce needs
Evidence-informed engagement practices
3. Workforce Development & Pipeline Creation
Translate lived experience into behavioral health career pathways
Support development of:
Internship structures
Graduate/doctoral student involvement
Build clear, visible entry points into the field
4. University & Institutional Partnerships
Collaborate with:
Schools of Social Work
Public Health programs
Support:
MOUs
Field placements
Research collaboration
5. Funding & Strategic Growth
Contribute to:
Grant development and submissions
Clinical justification and program design
Align program with:
Workforce development funding
Community behavioral health initiatives
6. Supervision & Program Guidance
Provide guidance to:
Graduate students
Facilitators
Community participants
Help design future clinical supervision structures
Qualifications
Required
Active Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) (U.S.)
Minimum 2+ years post-licensure experience
Experience with:
Underserved populations
Community or behavioral health systems
Strong knowledge of:
Trauma-informed care
Cultural humility
Preferred
Experience with:
Workforce development or pipeline programs
Academic or university partnerships
Grant-funded initiatives
Compensation Structure (Founding Model)
Year 1 (Startup Phase)
3 4 hours/week
Sweat Equity
Program Equity + nominal stipend based on pending grant applications
Foundational role in program design
Year 2 (Growth Phase)
10 12 hours/week
Increased stipend based on funding
Expanded leadership role
Year 3 (Scale Phase)
Full-Time Executive Role
Competitive salary + equity
Potential titles:
Executive Director
Clinical Director
Chief Program Officer
What Makes This Role Unique
You are contributing to building the system, not entering one
You will shape:
Behavioral health workforce pathways
Community engagement models
Institutional partnerships
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit:
Resume or CV
Cover Letter (1 2 pages addressing your interest and alignment with this role)
Send all materials to:
When asked about her strengths, she hesitated. When asked what she was good at, she minimized. When asked where she saw herself, she felt a quiet pressure she couldn't name the sense of being asked to choose from a map she had never been shown. She was not behind. She was not confused. She was something subtler and harder to describe: a person whose experience had arrived years before the language to describe it.
This is the Naming Gap.
The phrase comes from Art Fuller, a doctoral candidate in health sciences, a behavioral health executive in Indiana, and the founder of Voice Up Publishing. Fuller developed the framework over years of working in education, policy, and behavioral health years of watching capable people be systematically overlooked, not because they lacked ability but because the systems evaluating them were designed to detect one thing (fluent articulation of experience) while those people had developed something else (the experience itself, without the language to make it legible).