Why This Role Exists Too many families in NJ begin parenthood without the support the first 1,000 days require. Maternal and infant health outcomes here lag behind other states; prenatal and postpartum care is uneven, and families navigating pregnancy, birth, and early childhood are too often left to coordinate it alone. The evidence on what helps is clear: continuous, trusted, community-based support through pregnancy, birth, and a child's earliest years measurably improves outcomes for parents and babies alike. BRICK's bet is that this workforce should not be imported into our community. It should be built from it — because the people best positioned to walk alongside families are fellow community members, and because a good job in a growing field is itself a family-stabilizing force. We are hiring a Director to build a career pathway that recruits community members, trains and credentials them as Community Doulas, and supports them on a maternal health career ladder — serving the families in BRICK Healthy Beginnings. What Makes This Different Most workforce programs train people and hand them a certificate. BRICK is building the employer alongside the training. Graduates of this pathway are hired into the BRICK Doula Network, a Medicaid-billable service line this Director will design, launch, and grow. That means this role owns the full arc: who gets recruited, how they're trained, who certifies them, where they work, what they're paid, how the work gets reimbursed, and whether the whole thing sustains itself. It is a program design job, a workforce job, and a health-care business-model job at once. For the right person, this is the chance to build something that does not yet exist in Newark — and to prove a model other cities can run.