Director, Maternal Health Career Pathway & BRICK Doula Network

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.