Job Description:
The Director of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management serves as Brown University's strategic and operational leader for BART, the University's established behavioral threat assessment and management process. Reporting directly to the Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management, the Director chairs and convenes the BART Team and works in close partnership with Campus Life, supporting its leadership in advancing consistency, coordination, and shared standards across school-based Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) and Dean-of-Students-affiliated behavioral concern processes across the University.
This position holds a dual mandate: (1) institutional subject-matter expert on behavioral risk, threat assessment methodology, and violence prevention, and (2) strategic and operational leader responsible for BART's day-to-day management, case oversight, policy and protocol review and enhancement, and prevention strategy. The Director collaborates with partner offices to help behavioral concern pathways operate under consistent standards, clear escalation protocols, and defensible, well-documented decision-making, while respecting the distinct roles and expertise of Campus Life, academic units, and other campus partners.
Major Responsibility: Team Convening and Program Leadership
Chair and convene the multidisciplinary BART Team, setting meeting cadence, agenda, and structured case-review protocols.
Serve as the designated case manager of record for high-risk and complex cases, coordinating closely with Public Safety, Campus Life, Human Resources, Counseling and Psychological Services, General Counsel, Title IX, Residential Life, and Disability Services.
Provide direct case consultation and, where appropriate, hands-on case management for the highest-acuity referrals, including intake triage, risk assessment, safety/threat management planning, and follow-up monitoring.
Represent BART to senior leadership, providing regular reporting on program metrics, case trends, emerging risks, and program effectiveness.
Major Responsibility: Program Coordination and Partnership
Work with school-, division-, and unit-level behavioral intervention and care teams to help ensure practices, including intake, risk assessment, escalation, documentation, and case closure, align with best practice and effectively meet the needs of campus, while respecting the distinct roles, expertise, and needs of partner offices across Brown's decentralized environment.
Coordinate cross-divisional initiatives to strengthen reporting pathways, information sharing, and multidisciplinary collaboration among the offices and teams that intersect with behavioral risk.
Identify and recommend opportunities to strengthen organizational structure, staffing, technology, and program maturity for BART, in consultation with campus partners and the Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management.
Major Responsibility: Behavioral Threat Prevention Strategy
Lead the University's behavioral threat prevention strategy by identifying emerging trends, recommending prevention initiatives, strengthening reporting pathways, and fostering a campus culture of early intervention and shared responsibility.
Advance upstream prevention programming that reduces reliance on reactive case response, in partnership with Campus Life, Human Resources, and academic leadership.
Major Responsibility: Enterprise Risk Intelligence
Analyze behavioral risk trends, recurring vulnerabilities, systemic issues, and emerging threats across the University, and translate that analysis into strategic recommendations for senior leadership on institutional risk reduction.
Monitor patterns such as repeat concerning behavior within particular settings, stalking trends, workplace violence trends, and online threatening behavior, informing both program adjustments and broader institutional risk management.
Major Responsibility: Cross-Campus BIT Coordination
Support Campus Life in its…