Job Requisition ID: 47483
Opening Date: 08/08/2025
Closing Date: 08/21/2025
Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: BEHAVIOR ANALYST ASSOCIATE - 04375
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: (Eff 7/1/25) $5,148-$7,227/month ($61,776-$86,724/year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Union
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC062

WHY WORK FOR ILLINOIS?

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No matter what state career you’re looking for, we offer jobs that fit your life and your schedule—flexible jobs that provide the gold standard of benefits. Our employees can take advantage of various avenues to advance their careers and realize their dreams. Our top-tier benefits and great retirement packages can help you build a rewarding career and lasting future with the State of Illinois.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Behavior Analyst Associate for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center located in Anna, Illinois. For a period not to exceed twelve months, actively participates in in-service and on-the-job training to gain proficiency and practical expertise in the field of applied behavior analysis consistent with the Behaviorist career discipline; receives instruction in appropriate treatment standards and practical application of intervention procedures, restraints and seclusion; completes controlled work assignments of increasing difficulty, complexity and responsibility; instructs staff responsible for implementing treatment programs and support or ancillary staff impacting treatment programs on detailed treatment instructions and methodologies. Serves as a member of an Interdisciplinary Team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires current, valid certification as a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)* or Board-Certified Behavior Analyst-D (BCBA-D) by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB), accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) or its successor organization.
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• A master’s degree is required to gain BCBA certification; a doctoral degree (PhD) is required to gain the BCBA-D designation.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
  Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (2 late nights per month, 10:30pm - 7:00pm), 1-hour unpaid lunch
  Work Location: 1000 N Main St, Anna, Illinois, 62906-1652
  Division of Developmental Disabilities
  Choate Mental Health & Developmental Center
  DD Services - Psychology
  Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@Illinois.gov
  Posting Group: Social Services

• For a period not to exceed twelve months, actively participates in in-service and on-the-job training to gain proficiency and practical expertise in the field of applied behavior analysis consistent with the Behaviorist career discipline.
• Receives instruction in appropriate treatment standards and practical application of intervention procedures, restraints and seclusion.
• Develops, implements, and monitors training procedures relative to behavior modification for assigned cases of increasing difficulty and complexity.
• Instructs staff responsible for implementing treatment programs and support or ancillary staff impacting treatment programs on detailed treatment instructions and methodologies.
• Completes reports and participates in facility and/or department committees. Makes recommendations on solutions to issues.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.