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Washington Association for Infant Mental Health Seeks Executive Director

The Board of Directors of the Washington Association for Infant Mental Health (WA-AIMH) is pleased to announce a unique leadership opportunity. WA-AIMH seeks to hire its first executive director to grow an emerging multi-disciplinary membership organization into the future. The application deadline is March 4.

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial, collaborative and reflective leader with a passion for working on behalf of young children and their healthy development. The board is seeking someone who is equal parts strategist and catalyst – an independent and self-motivated executive able to successfully navigate within a diverse community of mental health practitioners, researchers, early learning and intervention professionals, and child and family advocates.

The Washington Association for Infant Mental Health is a membership organization, founded in 2001, and affiliated with the World Association for Infant Mental Health. WA-AIMH’s purpose is to promote an understanding of the importance of infancy in human development and offer a forum for interdisciplinary communication and collaboration in an effort to build the capacities and competencies of providers of services to infants and their families. WAAIMH is currently a volunteer-run organization overseen by a seven-member Board of Directors and has a growing number of stakeholders.

For more information, including a full job listing, visit www.wa-aimh.org.

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