Job Description
Center Point is seeking a compassionate and experienced leader to serve as Program Director for our new Contra Costa County Day Reporting Center (DRC) in San Pablo, CA. This innovative program is under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP), and will provide services to adults on parole.
About the Position:
About the Position:
The Program Director is responsible for the overall leadership, management, and successful operation of a CDCR-funded Day Reporting Center serving the Adult Parole population. This role oversees a team of seven staff members and is responsible for ensuring high-quality service delivery aligned with evidence-based practices and CDCR DRP contract requirements, with a focus on reducing recidivism and supporting successful community reintegration.
The Program Director will play an integral role in establishing operational systems and workflows, recruiting and onboarding staff, developing a positive team culture, implementing training, and leading the successful launch and ongoing operation of the program.
The Program Director will play an integral role in establishing operational systems and workflows, recruiting and onboarding staff, developing a positive team culture, implementing training, and leading the successful launch and ongoing operation of the program.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide overall administrative and operational leadership for CDCR DRP-funded DRC services.
- Plan, direct, and coordinate daily program activities serving adults on parole.
- Ensure delivery of evidence-based interventions, including cognitive behavioral programming, substance use disorder services, and reentry support.
- Recruit, hire, train, supervise, and evaluate multidisciplinary program staff.
- Ensure compliance with CDCR DRP contract requirements, state regulations, and evidence-based practice standards.
- Oversee program performance, outcomes, and continuous quality improvement initiatives aimed at reducing recidivism.
- Manage program budget and ensure fiscal accountability in alignment with contract expectations.
- Collaborate with CDCR staff, parole agents, community providers, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure accurate documentation, reporting, and timely submission of all required program deliverables (e.g., performance reports, ARMS-related data as applicable).
- Support audits, monitoring visits, and program reviews.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in program management, preferably in criminal justice, reentry, or behavioral health settings.
- Experience working with justice-involved individuals, specifically Adult Parole populations, strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), substance use disorder treatment, and reentry services preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing contracts, compliance, and performance outcomes in publicly funded programs.
- Strong leadership, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with budgeting, reporting, and regulatory oversight preferred.
- Must be able to successfully complete and pass a DOJ Live Scan background clearance.
- Must possess a valid California driver’s license with no serious infractions within the past four (4) years.
- Must be insurable under the agency’s automobile insurance policy.
- Must have access to reliable personal transportation for work-related duties.
Benefits/Perks:
- Highly competitive compensation.
- Medical, Dental, Vision.
- 15 days off (PTO/Sick time), increasing with tenure. Paid holidays.
- 401K with matching contribution & Life insurance program.
Pay Frequency: Twice monthly.
Work Remotely: No.
Job Type: Full-time Schedule - Monday to Friday (weekends when needed).
Work Remotely: No.
Job Type: Full-time Schedule - Monday to Friday (weekends when needed).
Numbers & Facts
| Location | San Pablo, California |
| Industry | Nonprofit Charitable Organizations |
| Salary | $85,000–$95,000 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.cpinc.org |
About Company
About Us
We Believe
Center Point’s programs promote increased stability, self-reliance, personal productivity and social responsibility. Center Point believes that individuals, families and communities can flourish when the cycles of poverty, illiteracy, abuse, neglect, unemployment, homelessness and crime are interrupted by specialized and effective rehabilitation services.
Our Mission
Center Point’s mission is to provide comprehensive social, educational, vocational, medical, psychological, housing and rehabilitation services to combat social problems such as substance abuse, poverty, unemployment and homelessness.
Center Point offers rehabilitation and treatment services that interrupt the abusive cycles of psychological, social and economic dislocation by providing critical training and support so that individuals and families can claim self-worth and dignity.
Agency Goals
- To provide a range of cognitive, behavioral and psychosocial skills training aimed at enhancing personal, moral and social responsibility;
- To develop educational, vocational and interpersonal skills to promote personal and social productivity;
- To create value-based opportunities which maximize successful pro-social community integration;
- To improve the quality of life.
THE ORGANIZATION – WHO WE ARE
For more than fifty years Center Point has provided the foundation for change for many families and individuals by assisting them to become responsible members of our communities and we have established a reputation as a leader in the field! Center Point's services facilitate the process of rehabilitation by helping individuals reclaim self-worth and dignity. Typical clients include veterans, the homeless, incarcerated individuals, ex-offenders who need services, and individuals with mental health and/or substance abuse problems. Equipped with new skills for living and working, and assisted with employment and housing, Center Point program graduates return to their communities ready to assume responsibility for themselves and others. Click HERE to learn more about our history, or go to http://www.cpinc.org.
Center Point, Inc. has expanded over the years to become one of the nation's leading health and social services agency with programs in California and is a large contract service provider for many correctional institutions and multiple counties therein. Today, Center Point serves more than 4,000 men and women each year providing comprehensive, evidence-based services for homeless individuals, veterans, substance users, women with children, families, adolescents, those who are unemployed and those involved with the criminal justice system.
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