KEY ESSENTIALS TO BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT CORP

BCBA Lead

Senior Clinical Leadership Role

BCBA Lead — Senior Clinical Leadership

Compensation (Full-time)

$100,000 – $125,000/year (Exempt, Salaried)

Compensation (Part-time)

$48 – $60/hr

Employment Type

Full-time and Part-time positions available

Reports To

Chief Clinical Director (Maritza)

Location

Primary assignment to one KEBM region (Inland Empire SoCal or McDonough GA) with cross-site clinical oversight responsibilities

Service Setting

Clinic-based leadership with cross-site travel as clinically required

Credential

Active BCBA Certification · Master's degree required · 3+ years post-certification leadership experience · Demonstrated clinical program development experience · CA licensure / GA LBA license as required

Why This Role Exists

BCBA Lead is where senior clinical authority meets real operational leadership. You oversee a team of BCBAs, shape the clinical program, hold quality standards across your region, and have a direct seat at the clinical strategy table with Maritza and Jazmin. This isn't a "senior BCBA" retitle with the same workload — it's a distinct leadership role with distinct authority. Most ABA companies don't have this layer, which is why BCBAs top out and leave. KEBM built it because the pipeline has to extend beyond the BCBA seat.

About Us

We're a five-clinic ABA therapy company with four locations across Southern California and one in Georgia, founded in 2016 by a BCBA with 25+ years in the field. Our team of 68+ professionals delivers evidence-based therapy through our proprietary S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology — and our Sensory Spot locations prove that therapy can actually feel like play.

We serve every client who walks through our doors — insurance-funded, private pay, open play, and camp families alike. We're women-founded, minority-owned, and we don't sacrifice clinical quality for profit. If you want to work somewhere that's serious about outcomes and serious about its people, you're in the right place.

How S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. Work

S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. is our proprietary pod-based group ABA model. Clients are grouped 3–6 per pod at a 1:3 facilitator ratio, with a supervisor always on-site and clinical support always available in every pod. We use a push-in / pull-out model for group and 1:1 work, and BCBAs provide real-time clinical oversight across pods. As a clinical leader, you'll shape how this methodology evolves, how your team is trained to deliver it, and how we measure whether it's actually producing outcomes for clients.

Who We Serve

KEBM serves every client who walks through our doors — no tiers, no priority treatment, no "real clients vs. drop-ins." That means:

• Insurance-funded ABA clients (Medi-Cal, Medicare, commercial insurance)
• Private pay therapy clients
• Open play participants at our Sensory Spot locations
• Camp participants — spring break, winter break, summer, and any seasonal KEBM camp
• Consultation clients in adult residential and group home settings (Program Supervisor Master's level and above)

A camp kid gets the same quality of care as an insurance client. An open play family gets the same respect as a full-time ABA family. If that feels natural to you, you're going to fit here. If the idea of treating any of those clients as less-than bothers you, this isn't the place.

The Role — What You'll Actually Do

In this role, you'll:

• Lead a team of BCBAs across assigned caseloads — clinical oversight, quality assurance, performance evaluation, professional development planning for each BCBA reporting to you.
• Hold clinical quality standards across your region — program fidelity audits, outcome measurement, treatment plan review. You're the quality backstop between BCBAs and the CCD.
• Shape clinical program development — S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology refinement, intervention protocol evolution, curriculum updates. Direct partnership with the CCD on clinical strategy.
• Own complex cases and escalations — the clinical cases that require senior judgment, the family situations that need a senior presence, the treatment dilemmas that go beyond a single BCBA's scope.
• Mentor and develop the BCaBA and BCBA pipeline — succession planning for your region's clinical leadership. Who's ready for BCBA? Who's ready for Clinic Manager? Who's ready for ACD? That's your read.
• Contribute to organizational clinical strategy — participating in executive clinical meetings, advising on expansion decisions, informing hiring strategy at the BCBA level.

In your first 90 days, success looks like:

• Full assumption of regional clinical leadership, quality standards audit complete across your region, first monthly clinical review delivered to the CCD, and development plans in place for each BCBA on your team.

Who You Are

You might be perfect for this if:

• You hold your BCBA with 3+ years of genuine leadership experience — not just seniority. The difference matters and you know it.
• You want real operational authority — overseeing BCBAs, shaping clinical programs, a seat at the strategy table. If you're looking for a senior-IC role, this isn't it.
• You know the difference between being senior and being a leader — and you've been a leader. You've had the hard accountability conversations. You've mentored BCaBAs through certification. You've built programs that outlived you.
• You want to build the clinicians who come behind you — because KEBM's pipeline is only as real as the people in each tier actively developing the tier below them.

Bonus points if you have:

• 7+ years post-BCBA clinical experience
• Prior multi-site or regional clinical leadership
• Clinical program design or scaling experience
• Bilingual (Spanish)
• LBA license in Georgia (for GA region leadership)

What You Get

Compensation

Full-time: $100,000 – $125,000/year (Exempt, Salaried)

Part-time: $48 – $60/hr

We don't play the "competitive compensation" game, and we don't bait candidates with the top of the band and pay the bottom. Where you land in the range depends on credential level, experience, and market — and we'll tell you exactly why during the offer conversation.

Benefits — Full-Time (Executive & Clinical Leadership)

• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous PTO
• Paid holidays
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Executive-level CEU budget
• Conference attendance budget
• Professional liability coverage
• Clinical autonomy within the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. framework
• Annual professional development allocation

Benefits — Part-Time

• Paid sick time (per state law)
• CEU reimbursement for BCBA certification maintenance
• Professional liability coverage
• Ongoing S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. methodology training
• Priority access to full-time roles as they open
• Flexible scheduling within the role's clinical requirements

Growth

At KEBM, your next role isn't hypothetical. We built a 15-step clinical pipeline from Social Skills Assistant through Chief Clinical Director, and every seat has a real compensation band, a real scope of responsibility, and a real path to get there.

Your direct next step from this role: Assistant Clinical Director, for BCBA Leads ready to move into executive clinical leadership with cross-organization scope.

Ask about it in the interview — we'll show you the map.

Culture

We run on the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. framework, which means structured collaboration — not chaos. Our leadership team (COO Lynda, Chief Clinical Director Maritza, Clinical Director Jazmin) actually leads, so you're not reporting into a black hole. Our CEO is a BCBA who built this from the ground up starting at $8.50/hour as a paraeducator in 1999 — she gets what your day looks like.

Physical Requirements

This role is primarily administrative and clinical leadership, with on-site presence across locations. Physical demands are moderate: travel between sites as clinically indicated, periodic participation in clinical sessions, and the standard requirements of running clinical oversight across physically distributed operations.

Frequent: sitting, standing, walking, keyboarding, travel between KEBM locations

Occasional: fine manipulation, lifting or carrying 1–25 lbs, stairs, direct participation in clinical sessions

Crisis readiness: clinical leadership presence during escalations; full crisis intervention training required regardless of current session frequency

What You'll Actually Encounter — The Honest Section

Most ABA job posts sanitize this part and then lose hires at day 30 when reality hits. We'd rather tell you now.

Aggression — hitting, kicking, biting, scratching, throwing objects. Training and crisis protocols are in place; you'll never be expected to manage it alone.

Elopement — clients running or leaving the session space. The clinic is designed to be safe; staffing is set to make elopement manageable.

Self-injury — head-hitting, scratching, and similar behaviors. Protocols exist for every scenario.

Non-compliance and task refusal — some sessions will test your creativity and persistence.

Vocal stereotypy and scripting — understanding function is part of the clinical picture.

Sensory-seeking and sensory-avoidant behaviors — our Sensory Spot locations are designed with this in mind.

Why we tell you this upfront:

Because we respect your decision-making. This work isn't for everyone — and that's okay. But for the right person, there's nothing more rewarding than helping a child build the skills that change the trajectory of their life. And you won't be doing it alone — a supervisor is always on-site, clinical support is always available, established crisis protocols are in place, and a team has your back.

The KEBM G-W-C Test

Three questions. Take 60 seconds with them before you apply. If you can answer all three with an honest "yes," send your resume today. If any one is a no, that's information too — we'd rather you filter yourself now than find out three months in.

1. Do you GET IT? Do you understand what this role actually is — the real work, the hard days, the kids and families we serve? Not the idealized version. The actual job.
2. Do you WANT IT? Not the paycheck. Not the title. The work itself. Do you want to do this specific job, with these specific clients, inside the S.O.C.I.A.L. P.O.D.S. model?
3. Do you have the CAPACITY? Time, skill, emotional bandwidth, physical readiness. The capacity question is not whether you're smart or capable — it's whether your current life has room for this role to be done well.

How to Apply

Apply at the link in this posting, or send your resume and a short note about why this role caught your eye to info@keyessentialsbm.com. Questions before you apply? Call us at (909) 755-5220 — a real person will answer.

We review every application and respond to every candidate. You're not shouting into the void.

Screening questions

Please answer both in your application:

• Tell me about a time you had to hold a BCBA accountable while keeping them engaged. What did you actually say in the conversation, and what was the outcome?
• Describe a clinical program you built or scaled. What were the measurable outcomes, and what would you do differently now?

Key Essentials to Behavior Management Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We are women-founded, minority-owned, and committed to hiring without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.