Job Description

Are you passionate about helping adults with autism build meaningful skills, achieve personal goals, and experience greater independence?

Do you enjoy teaching, mentoring staff, and creating engaging learning opportunities that make a lasting impact?

Are you looking for a career where your leadership, creativity, and commitment to quality services can help others thrive while supporting your own professional growth?

As a Day Habilitation Instructor at Anderson Center for Autism, you will play a key role in developing, implementing, and maintaining instructional systems that promote learning, communication, social development, and quality of life for adults participating in our Day Habilitation programs. Through individualized support, team leadership, and evidence-based practices, you will help ensure that each person receives meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and achieve their goals.

In this role, you'll work closely with Day Habilitation Specialists, behavioral staff, related service professionals, and program leadership to create engaging learning environments, implement Life Plan goals, support behavioral interventions, and ensure high-quality service delivery across program and community settings.

What You Will Do as a Day Habilitation Instructor

• Develop and maintain program systems, schedules, materials, and documentation.
• Deliver and assess individualized and group instruction daily.
• Train and support staff to ensure effective, goal-aligned service delivery.
• Use behavioral supports to promote learning, skill development, and participant success.
• Oversee Life Plan goal implementation, documentation, and reporting requirements.
• Foster positive, engaging environments that support communication, social development, and independence.

What You Can Bring to the Team

• A passion for supporting individuals with autism and developmental disabilities.
• Strong instructional, coaching, and team-building abilities.
• The ability to motivate others and create engaging learning experiences.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A commitment to person-centered services and quality outcomes.
• Alignment with Anderson's mission, values, and Quality of Life philosophy.

The Qualifications We Seek

• Bachelor's degree in Human Services or a related field preferred.
• Experience supporting individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, education, habilitation, or human services preferred.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Medication Certification status.
• Ability to obtain and maintain agency driving privileges.
• Strong leadership, training, and documentation skills.

In Addition, We Expect That You

• Obtain and maintain all required certifications and agency training.
• Assist with crisis intervention procedures and emergency response requirements.
• Accurately complete documentation, data collection, and reporting responsibilities.
• Foster a positive team culture and collaborative work environment.
• Support Anderson's commitment to person-centered services and quality-of-life outcomes.

Anderson's QUALITY OF LIFE Expectation:

To actively support Anderson's mission by promoting and enhancing the quality of life (QofL) of the individuals we serve through thoughtful, comprehensive, and person-centered practices.

A Benefits Package Designed to Optimize YOUR Quality of Life Too:

• Up to 6 weeks of paid time off (starting in your first year!)
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match and annual contribution
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Wellness program
• Ongoing professional development
• Discounted tuition at select colleges/universities
• Scholarship program for those seeking educational experiences aligned with the role (*restrictions apply)
• Invitations to staff appreciation events and experiences

And much, much more!

To get a better understanding of the benefits that will be available to you, visit andersoncenterforautism.org/benefit.

Pay Range: $22.50 - $27.70 per hour; based on certifications, experience and education

Ready to Bring Your Purpose to Life?

A bright future for you begins here at Anderson Center for Autism.

Open the door to a rewarding career with advancement opportunities; expand possibilities for yourself AND for individuals with autism, their families, your colleagues, our cause, and society as a whole!

Apply today. You'll contribute to a meaningful mission, now and for years to come!

Life as Part of our Anderson Center for Autism Team

If you are looking to build a career that brings you a deep sense of purpose and a high quality of life, Anderson Center for Autism might be just the landing place you've envisioned.

Here you will enjoy a supportive, friendly work environment that values your ideas and insights, provides rewarding mentorship experiences, and opens doors to new professional opportunities that can transform your journey.

And by working at Anderson, you will be part of a movement so much bigger than all of us. Founded over 100 years ago (in 1924), our award-winning, evidence-based educational, vocational, residential, clinical, and consulting/training programs have successfully optimized the quality of life for individuals with autism for decades now. In addition, we work every day to cultivate a broader culture of acceptance in society, further adding to the legacy of compassion for which we have come to be known throughout the country and around the world.

In addition to a rewarding career experience, as part of our team you'll also enjoy competitive pay, a generous retirement plan (including employer match and annual contribution), abundant vacation time, robust benefits, ongoing opportunities for learning and advancement, wellness programs, staff appreciation events, and a chance to work alongside wonderful professionals in a positive environment.

Our Mission at Anderson Center for Autism: To optimize the quality of life for individuals with autism.

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This position description in no way states or implies that the responsibilities listed are the only duties to be performed by the person filling this position. The person in the position may be required to perform other duties as necessitated by the situation or requested by his/her supervisor. Our organization is committed to providing a diverse workforce by ensuring that discrimination barriers to equal employment opportunity and upward mobility do not exist here. Equal opportunity means employment, development, and promotion of individuals without consideration of race, color, disability, religion, age, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, unless there is a bona fide occupational requirement which excludes a person in one of these protected groups. Our organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE