Deputy Commissioner Preventive Services

The Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and wellbeing of New York Citys children and families by providing child welfare juvenile justice and early care services. In child welfare ACS contracts with private nonprofit organizations to support and stabilize families through communitybased programming and preventive services and provides foster care services for children not able to safely remain at home. Each year the agencys Division of Child Protection responds to more than 50000 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. In juvenile justice ACS manages and funds services including detention and placement intensive communitybased alternatives for youth and support services for families. ACS is also a key part of NYCs early childhood and education continuum providing childcare assistance to thousands of child welfare involved and lowincome children so they can access safe affordable quality care.

ACS is seeking an exceptional candidate to join our team as the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Preventive Services the branch of ACS that provides family services therapeutic treatment home care and other support to New York Citys families through a network of communitybased nonprofit organizations. These services are designed to stabilize and strengthen families prevent the need for foster care expedite permanency and prevent the replacement of children into foster care.

Reporting directly to the ACS Commissioner and serving as a member of the ACS Executive Team the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Preventive Services is responsible for the direction administration and effective functioning of the divisions wide range of programs and initiatives. Specific responsibilities include:

Develop and implement a clear and flexible vision for the future of Child Welfare Prevention Services in New York City that includes supporting and strengthening families keeping children safe reducing unnecessary child welfare investigations and reducing the need for children to enter foster care placement.

Convene and listen to key stakeholders especially families to inform the development of programs practices and policies.

Support Provider Agency partners to build and deepen community connections to best serve families and reduce unnecessary further system involvement.

Develop and implement approaches that support Provider Agency effectiveness and health. including advocacy for maximum federal and state dollars for prevention funding.

Work closely with other ACS Divisions and Offices to implement key initiatives related to ACSs Strategic Priorities including the new SchoolBased Early Support programs.

Partner with other key systems and agencies (NYC Public Schools Department of Social Services Health and Hospitals Health and Mental Hygiene and others) to develop and sustain swift access to family services and supports including pathways that do not require a child protective investigation.

Create and sustain effective processes to deploy help to families which they identify as helpful.

Effectively use data to track the utilization of services across New York City and by service type; manage the capacity of our preventive system in accordance with utilization and need for services.

Manage critical crossdivisional project areas to improve outcomes for the children and families ACS serves.

Ensure that program areas within the Division of Preventive Services are sufficiently staffed equipped trained and capable of carrying out responsibilities and that the professional development of staff throughout the division is prioritized.

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER 12935

Qualifications :

1. A masters degree from an accredited college in economics finance accounting business or public administration human resources management management science operations research organizational behavior industrial psychology statistics personnel administration labor relations psychology sociology human resources development political science urban studies or a closely related field and two years of satisfactory fulltime professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration accounting economic or financial administration or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis operations research organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration recruitment position classification personnel relations employee benefits staff development employment program planning/administration labor market research economic planning social services program planning/evaluation or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive managerial administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in 1 above including the 18 months of executive managerial administrative or supervisory experience as described in 1 above.

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