SACHS/LIA Program Manager

Overview

This position is open until filled with an initial application review to take place on July 27, 2026 The starting salary range for this position is $9,077.00 - $10,298.00 per month depending upon qualifications and is non-negotiable. FUNCTION OF THE UNIT Academy for Professional Excellence, a project of San Diego State University School of Social Work, was established in 1996 with the goal of revolutionizing the way people work to ensure the world is a healthier place. Our services integrate culturally responsive and recovery-oriented practices into our daily work to promote healing and healthy relationships.

Providing approximately 50,000 learning experiences to health and human service and justice system professionals annually, the Academy provides a variety of workforce development solutions in Southern California and beyond. With seven programs, three divisions and over 100 staff, the Academy’s mission is to provide exceptional learning and development experiences for the transformation of individuals, organizations, and communities. As a member of the Academy team you will be engaging in communal development of heart, mind, and practice.

You are expected to foster culturally responsive practice behaviors to promote well-being and a culture that focuses on healing, healthy relationships and changed behaviors. Southern Area Consortium of Human Services (SACHS) is a partnership of Southern California County Human Services Directors, universities with Schools of Social Work and the Academy for Professional Excellence. SACHS serves as a forum for county directors to explore and exchange ideas and information on issues facing public human services and to develop strategies for addressing these issues while maintaining a holistic, person-centered approach, and a social equity lens.

SACHS engages in strategy discussions, fiscal planning, research, policy development, executive development, and succession planning (via Leaders in Action) to improve the quality, accountability, and responsiveness of human services in the Southern California region. SACHS provides dynamic and influential leadership, cutting-edge knowledge, and best practices in the county human services arena, impacting social policies and advancing organizational excellence and social equity to help promote safe, healthy, and thriving individuals, families and communities in the Southern California region.

Leaders in Action (LIA) is a leadership development program that originated out of an interest from Southern Area Consortium of Human Services (SACHS) directors for an executive talent pipeline to fill executive positions. LIA incorporates evidence-based approaches to succession planning and executive development in a way that is tailored to the needs of the SACHS counties. The program’s ultimate goal is to create a critical mass of highly competent executives in the Southern California region ready for tomorrow’s county leadership opportunities and challenges…

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