About Us

The vision of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing is to make mental wellbeing, including recovery from substance use challenges, a reality for everyone. Despite overwhelming need, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. do not have access to comprehensive, high-quality, affordable mental health and substance use care when they need it.

Founded in 1969, the National Council is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of nearly 3,300 mental health and substance use prevention, treatment and recovery organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. We advocate for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services and supports. We build the capacity of mental health and substance use treatment organizations. And we promote greater understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care. Through our Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) program, we have trained more than 3 million people in the U.S. to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges.

The National Council is growing rapidly to meet this moment; both our budget ($77M) and passionate staff (250+) have grown more than 50% since 2020. In addition, while we maintain office space in Washington, DC, we are a remote-first organization, meaning our employees work remotely from their locations across the United States.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and commit ourselves to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

Position Summary

As the Delivery Systems Development Manager, you will be responsible for day-to-day systems administration and technical project management including maintenance, support and enhancements. The ideal candidate would draw upon their technical expertise to coordinate with third-party vendors, oversee the delivery of technical projects including the development of new solutions, and maintain existing systems. This role will report to the Director, Learning Delivery Systems.

This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. While this position can be done remotely from anywhere in the US, you must primarily work our core business hours of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM ET.

Key Responsibilities

Systems Administration (50%)

• Serve as AWS system administrator on Linux servers.
• Manage day-to day operations, configuration, and troubleshooting issues for learning system platforms.
• Develop and implement security policies, procedures, and recovery plans, perform security assessments and audits, and perform monitoring and maintenance to protect data and systems.
• Ensure all MHFA Delivery Systems platforms and tools are accessible to all audiences and meet WCAG/Section 508 accessibility standards.
• Train staff on use of Delivery Systems related products.
• Provide backup for Tier III technical support for Delivery Systems team.

Technical Project Management (50%)

• Collaboratively manage and monitor the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) including the design, implementation, user acceptance testing (UAT), security, testing and code reviews, leveraging your experience with required technologies such as NodeJS
• Manage vendor relationships and monitor progress deliverables.
• Gather user stories, use cases and specification for development resources.
• Coordinate with UX designers to develop interfaces and prototypes.
• Coordinate and respond to external stakeholder requests for project reviews, product development, and collaborations.
• Communicate effectively to many internal stakeholders and teams.
• Collaborate on other projects as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4-6 years of relevant work experience working with technical teams
• Hands-on experience with Systems Administration including AWS Compute, Storage and Linux
• Experience with AWS cloud platform and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Hands-on full-stack software development experience with Javascript/NodeJS, React, JSON/XML, Postgres, MySQL, Git
• Proven ability to manage projects in an Agile environment
• Strengths in writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting of client-ready materials

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes
• Experience with JIRA
• Understanding of SCORM, AICC, cmi5 and xAPI standards