Are you an organized, resourceful operations professional who enjoys turning priorities into action? Join Merakey’s Adult Behavioral Health team as an Operations Coordinator and play a key role in keeping high-impact initiatives, projects, and day-to-day operations moving forward.
This role partners closely with leadership and teams across the organization to coordinate projects, improve processes, organize data, solve problems, and drive accountability. The ideal candidate is a proactive doer who can manage multiple priorities, build practical systems, spot gaps, and follow through to get things done.
What You’ll Do- Drive projects forward by coordinating timelines, deliverables, action items, and follow-up.
- Partner with leadership on research, reporting, data analysis, presentations, and operational priorities.
- Build and maintain trackers, tools, workflows, and systems that make work easier and more efficient.
- Identify process gaps and help develop practical solutions and improvements.
- Collaborate across departments to solve problems, communicate priorities, and implement initiatives.
- Coordinate meetings, events, and conferences, including logistics, agendas, and follow-up.
- Monitor progress, identify barriers, and escalate issues before they become bigger problems.
- Support new program implementation, organizational initiatives, and special projects.
- Handle sensitive information with professionalism while maintaining confidentiality and compliance.
Why This Role Matters
This is more than an administrative position. You’ll have the opportunity to connect the dots, improve how work gets done, and directly support the operational success of Adult Behavioral Health. If you’re someone who sees a problem and thinks, “There has to be a better way,” this role may be a great fit.
Benefits
Merakey offers generous benefits that promote well-being, financial security, and work-life balance, including:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus access to healthcare advocacy support.
- Retirement plan -- both pre-tax and Roth (after-tax) options available for employee contributions.
- DailyPay -- access your pay when you need it!
- On the Goga well-being platform, featuring self-care tools and resources.
- Access Care.com for backup childcare, elder care, and household services.
- Confidential counseling, legal, and financial services through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Tuition reimbursement and educational partnerships.
- Employee discounts and savings programs on entertainment, travel, and lifestyle.
- Access to Pryor Online Learning for free online personal development classes.
Learn more about our full benefits package - https://www.merakey.org/careers/benefits
About Merakey
Merakey is a non-profit provider of developmental, behavioral health, and education services. More than 8,000 employees provide support to nearly 40,000 individuals and families throughout 12 states across the country each year. Click here to watch a video about Merakey. Merakey strictly follows a zero-tolerance policy for abuse.
Merakey is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer! We deeply value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ethnic background, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or disability status. Moreover, we are committed to creating teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Merakey welcomes all Veterans to apply!
Preferred Qualifications- Demonstrated intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint required. Preferred experience with SurveyMonkey, Smartsheet, and Zoom.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technology and systems.
Skills Required
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Teams
- Intermediate proficiency with SurveyMonkey
- Intermediate proficiency with Smartsheet
- Intermediate proficiency with Zoom
- Intermediate proficiency with SharePoint
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technology and systems
Merakey Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Merakey and has not been reviewed or approved by Merakey.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as robust, with multiple medical plan options, telemedicine, care navigation support, and certain specialty medications available at no cost through an affiliated pharmacy.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies are structured with separate vacation, sick, and personal time allocations plus paid holidays, and vacation increases with tenure.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and practical supports include an employee assistance program, tuition support, caregiving resources, discounts, and early wage access that can improve day-to-day financial flexibility.
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What We Do
Merakey is a leading developmental, behavioral health and education non-profit provider offering a breadth of integrated services to individuals and communities across the country. We leverage our size and expertise to develop innovative solutions and new models of care to meet the needs of individuals, their families, public and private healthcare funders and community partner organizations. We recognize that complex needs require a holistic approach. With our experience, expertise and compassion, we empower everyone within our communities to reach their fullest potential.
