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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Seeking Research Director

News Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 12:45

Director of the Butler Center for Research - The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has retained our firm to lead the recruitment for their next Director of the Butler Center for Research.  This senior leadership role will lead Hazelden’s institutional and clinical research activities to improve treatment effectiveness and fulfill the goals of the organization’s strategic plan. We are confidentially reaching out to you for your consideration of this position or nominations.

The Director will work to position Hazelden as the world’s leading authority on addiction treatment by continuously advancing the organization’s clinical and institutional research capacity. This leader will drive the use of institutional and clinical research data throughout Hazelden’s healthcare operations, providing a research base of knowledge necessary to inform clinical practice and education.  Effectively stewarding human, physical, and financial resources to strengthen capacity and provide a foundation for fulfillment of strategic priorities while creating and implementing annual operating budgets to meet key financial goals and targets is also under the purview of this position.

Successful candidates will possess a doctoral degree in psychology or related field completed within a scientist or scientist-practitioner program and have completed doctoral-level coursework in research design, methodology, and advanced statistics. Minimum of three years of full-time addictions treatment research activity within an addictions research center is required. Prior supervision and leadership experience is also required. Minorities, women, veterans and those with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

If you are interested in this opportunity or would like to nominate a colleague for this position, please contact us as noted below. All inquiries will remain confidential.

Best regards,

Christopher Wilmore
Associate Consultant
Cejka Executive Search
314.236.4572
cwilmore@cejkasearch.com