Anasazi Foundation is an Arizona-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit working across behavioral healthcare, education, and youth support. Its wilderness therapy and primitive living programs help teens and young adults explore personal potential while addressing emotional and behavioral challenges in an outdoor setting. The organization also involves families through workshops and educational forums, extending its preventive and supportive approach beyond the program experience.
Field Director, Outdoor Behavioral Health (Hybrid – Mesa, AZ)
Lead ANASAZI Foundation’s outdoor behavioral health field operations in a hybrid Mesa-based role. Oversee personnel, safety, logistics, training, and emergency response across office and remote outdoor settings.
Description
- Lead ANASAZI Foundation’s field operations and direct-care teams within its Outdoor Behavioral Health Care Program
- Oversee staffing, safety, logistics, communications, and daily field activities
- Supervise, coach, train, and evaluate assigned field personnel
- Recruit and select field staff in partnership with Human Resources
- Manage staffing schedules and assignments to support client safety and program requirements
- Ensure field personnel complete orientation, training, supervision, and competency assessments
- Advance ANASAZI’s philosophy, Guiding Principles, outdoor education, and approved field practices
- Monitor staffing, weather, terrain, water, transportation, equipment, supplies, and safety conditions
- Coordinate transportation, resupply, staff movement, communications equipment, emergency resources, and other field logistics
- Maintain effective communication among Field Operations, Clinical, Nursing, Admissions, and leadership teams
- Support treatment plans and clinical recommendations while respecting professional role boundaries
- Join field activities to oversee operations, develop personnel, and promote client and staff safety
- Maintain emergency readiness and participate in on-call leadership, crisis response, evacuations, elopement response, and other field emergencies
- Escalate and address significant client, staff, medical, behavioral, environmental, and safety concerns
- Review field records, incidents, safety issues, and operational trends, ensuring appropriate follow-up
- Contribute to quality improvement, risk management, emergency preparedness, licensing, accreditation, and field policy development
- Protect client rights, confidentiality, professional boundaries, and mandatory-reporting obligations
- Provide operational and direct-care leadership without independently determining clinical treatment or medical care
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED
- At least two years of relevant field, outdoor-program, direct-care, behavioral health, youth-program, or comparable experience
- Experience leading field teams, supervising staff, or delivering staff training
- Valid driver’s license with satisfactory driving eligibility
- Current CPR and First Aid certification
- Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card as required
- Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Responder, EMT, or another advanced field or emergency medical certification as required for assigned duties
- PCS Instructor Certification when responsible for delivering PCS training
- Completion of required ANASAZI field, safety, emergency-response, driver, and competency training
- Ability to hike approximately 3–15 miles per day across rugged, uneven, and remote terrain when required
- Ability to carry a backpack, emergency equipment, or other field supplies weighing approximately 50 pounds or more when required
- Ability to perform physically demanding field work
- Ability to participate in multi-day or overnight outdoor assignments when required
- Ability to work safely across changing temperatures, weather, terrain, and elevations and respond to field emergencies
- Compliance with applicable federal and Arizona requirements, AZDHS requirements, Joint Commission standards, ANASAZI policies, client rights, confidentiality, and mandatory-reporting obligations
Benefits
- Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals in accordance with applicable law