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City of New York · 2 days ago

Senior Executive Director

New York City, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$165K/yr - $165K/yr

4+ years exp

City of New York is seeking a Senior Executive Director for the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), which focuses on the safety and well-being of children and families. The role involves developing policies and programs to support children in foster care and ensuring that agency staff are equipped with the necessary training and resources.

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Responsibilities

Develop and implement policies, practices, and materials to ensure that children and parents that touch the child welfare system are informed and connected to appropriate resources and support services that meet their individualized needs

Develop and implement materials, trainings, and technical assistance to ensure that ACS and provider agency staff are knowledgeable of the key practice and guidance around Family Team Conferencing, Reentry, and Independent Review

Collect data that informs service needs for Crossover Youth both in the Division for Youth and Family Justice Detention and Close to Home programs as well in City, State and Federal prisons

Create innovative programming designed to bridge the gap of permanency achievement for children, teens, and families in the child welfare system

Inform agency staff on changes in conferencing, and in juvenile justice

Conduct regular conference calls

Design and provide training on best case practice and normative experiences for conference facilitators and on the Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM)

Organize workshops and convenings to support implementation of initiatives

Represent ACS at city and statewide foster care related meetings and conferences

Participate as a member of interagency task forces and workgroups involving older youth issues and the juvenile justice system as needed

Evaluate staff and the success of the unit

Hold monthly meetings with area of conferencing and youth justice to discuss key practice issues/concerns

Implement and train on policy for Case Conferencing and Newly Identified Children

Qualification

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Required

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four years of progressively responsible experience, in a large governmental agency, business firm, civic or community organization operating in the area of social services, including one year at the administrative or managerial level

Education and/or experience equivalent to '1' above. Graduate education or a license may substitute for up to a maximum of three years of experience in the area of social services, but not for the one year of experience at the administrative or managerial level as described in '1' above

A master's degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, business, child welfare, counseling, economics, education, finance, human resources, labor relations, management, management science, nursing, operations research, organizational behavior, personnel or public administration, political science, psychology, sociology, social work, statistics, and/or urban studies may substitute for two years of experience

Graduate education beyond the baccalaureate degree may be substituted at the rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college or university in the area(s) listed in '2(A)' above for each year of experience up to a maximum of three years

A valid New York State Registration as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) may substitute for three years of experience

All candidates must have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and one year of experience at the administrative or management level as described in '1' above