Deputy Director
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*THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL ACS APPLICANTS*
**THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $135696**
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).
Protective Diagnostic (PD)/Family Services Unit (FSU) support is located across all five boroughs investigates reports of alleged child abuse and neglect. The PD/FSU child protective team is the largest within DCP and the largest in each of the Borough offices. Child protective staff is responsible for investigating every allegation that is reported and for conducting a comprehensive assessment of the immediate safety and risk of future harm to each child in the family. Based upon the case circumstances child protective staff may act immediately to protect the children. Under the direction of the Assistant Commissioner with wide latitude for the exercise of independent action and decisionmaking the Deputy Director (DD) has the overall responsibility for a team of Child Protective and or Family Support Units. The DD will be responsible for the following:
Direct several Child Protective Managers each accountable for the activities of several units of Child Protective Specialists
Ensure that each unit is sufficiently staffed properly equipped and trained and capable of carrying its responsibilities in accordance with applicable law rules regulations and policy
Oversee the implementation of agency policy and operational systems within the borough to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of services
Implement and monitor the necessary management controls and accountable for the evaluation of subordinates
Take the necessary steps to improve and ensure the quality of services and carry out other administrative assignment as required
Responsible for resolving procedural and operational problems within the program
Design and oversee the implementation of creative solutions to case related problems within the program
Responsible for the program reporting process reviewing and assessing all the pertinent information
used in the ongoing monitoring and review of the boroughs program
Develop and implement initiatives to improve the quality of work and work environment including quality supervision
Develop client family referral source pathways and establish and maintain liaison relations with other service providers throughout NYC
Make decision under pressure without prior approval of superiors
Exemplify leadership skills of effective communication modeling coaching educating and support to foster quality supervision to their subordinates regularly
TO APPLY
Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #681546.
No phone calls faxes or personal inquiries permitted.
Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
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.
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
