Child Protective Manager
Child Protective Manager
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Job Description
THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL ACS APPLICANTS.
*THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $124261*
The Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and wellbeing of
children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS
manages communitybased supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare
vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice ACS
oversees detention placement and programs for youth in the community.
The Division of Child Protection (DCP) is charged with investigating all allegations of child abuse and
maltreatment that the City receives from the New York Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and
Maltreatment. The Division of Child Protection encompasses Child Protective and Placement Services.
Child Protective Services include the Child Protective Borough Offices Family Preservation and Family
Services Unit Emergency Childrens Services (ECS) and the Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
Under the administrative direction of the Deputy Commissioner Associate Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner with wide latitude for the exercise of independent action and decisionmaking the Child Protective Manager will have overall responsibility for a geographic zone within a borough or satellite borough office. CPS borough offices consist of a number of child protective service units or Family Services Units which conduct highly sensitive investigations into alleged reports of child abuse and or neglect; administers programs designed to assess the needs of families and the provision of services such as intensive preventive services or foster care placement outside the home.
The Child Protective Manager will be responsible for the following:
Manage up to four units of Supervisors and Child Protective Specialists
Responsible for all compliance and quality case practice initiatives
Monitor the field activities of the managerial supervisory and /or child protective specialist staff they manage
Ensure that operations conform to all applicable federal state and local mandates and guidelines
Monitor and evaluate the results of operations by reviewing aggregate and individual performance data
Intervene in difficult case management decisions by exercising responsibility and discretion and
assuming accountability
Attend meetings with other managerial staff and relays progress reports and issue analysis to the
Borough Commissioner
Create and implement management controls to monitor the performance of individual zones and /or units
Hold regular staff meetings and individual conference to monitor performance; plans and determines
needs for various personnel and budget actions
Prepare performance evaluations including recognizing outstanding achievements or making
disciplinary referrals where appropriate
Ensure that each unit within the zone is sufficiently staffed properly equipped and trained and capable
of carrying its responsibilities in accordance with applicable law rules regulations and policy
Exemplify leadership skills of effective communication modeling coaching educating and support to
foster quality supervision to their subordinates regularly
Perform other related duties
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This job opening has been reposted. Previous applicants do not need to reapply.
Section 424A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with childcaring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.
TO APPLY
Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #646256.
No phone calls faxes or personal inquiries permitted.
Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of fulltime satisfactory professional social services or related experience in organizations dealing directly with children and/or adolescents; such as (but not limited to) child welfare agencies DayCare educational institutions mental health groups pediatrics juvenile justice. At least eighteen months of the required experience must be in a supervisor administrative managerial or executive capacity.
2. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 above. However all candidates must have at least eighteen months of experience in a supervisory administrative managerial or executive capacity. A Masters degree in Social Work may be substituted for one year of the required general experience.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
