FEC Executive Director

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $120000 $138684.

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 child care 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.

In 2017 ACS established the Division of Child and Family WellBeing (CFWB) to develop innovative primary prevention programs that serve families in NYC. Rooted in the belief that all New Yorkers should have access to quality resources and opportunities that enhance their capacity to thrive CFWB provides direct connections to primary supports for families to improve the wellbeing of children and families and by extension their communities. CFWB also provides access to quality resources and opportunities that promote child and family wellbeing enhance families capacity to thrive and helps minimize child welfare system involvement.

The Office of Strategy Research and Provider Partnerships (SRPP) in the Division of Child and Family Well Being (CFWB) at ACS consists of four teams that manage ACSs Family Enrichment Centers and PromiseNYC programs and lead strategic analytical and datadriven collaborative portfolios of work to support CFWB offices programs and policies. The teams include FEC Program Management (FEC PM) Child Care Data Management (DM) Strategy and Research (SR) and Program Sustainability and Improvement team (PSI).

The FEC Program Management team oversee the development and implementation of 29 (soon to be 30) contracted Family Enrichment Centers citywide providing budget management coaching and technical assistance to contracted staff at each FEC to ensure it is implemented with high quality and model fidelity.

Family Enrichment Centers (FEC)
In 2017 The Administration for Childrens Services launched three Family Enrichment Centers (FEC). As of July 2024 there are 29 FECs across the five boroughs of New York City all in varying stages of implementation some have been open and operating for several years; others are in a startup phase working to hire and train staff engage community members to design and renovate their sites conduct outreach and provide inperson and virtual offerings. FECs are welcoming walkin family centered spaces open to all that are codesigned with community members. At the centers families and children can connect with neighbors volunteer their time participate in various offerings and access resources and supports they feel they need to thrive. In July 2025 our contract with the thirtieth and final FEC will begin.

Job Duties:

Program Leadership and Oversight

Lead and oversee the FEC Program Management teams practice in providing budget management coaching and technical assistance to each of our contracted 29 (soon to be 30) FECs ensuring consistency and alignment with FEC Model Standards and contracts the models intended outcomes and ACS/City fiscal management policies.
Oversee the Program Management teams continuous learning and improvement processes to enhance systemwide clarity of the FEC model adapt practice to respond to systemlevel implementation and model fidelity coaching needs and individual FEC needs.
Collaborate with internal Divisions such as Finance IT Procurement legal and External Affairs
Lead operational and fiscal functions to ensure program accountability
Effectively manage the Program Management team through a collaborative leadership approach including coaching the team in how to engage each other in shared prioritization problemsolving and decisionmaking rather than directive or authoritative styles.
Foster a culture of trust mutual respect collaboration accountability ownership and mentorship while ensuring welldefined and manageable roles and equitable distribution of workloads across the team. Oversee the ongoing development of standards tools resources and training processes to ensure a successful FEC expansion with optimal model fidelity
Prepare presentationready communication and regular systemwide implementation progress reports; share and present updates onFEC implementation quality and fidelity performance metrics

Executive Thought Partner and Collaborator

Serve as a key member of SRPPs management team contributing to the execution of the Units organizational strategy and goals
Build consensus inspire ongoing support and participation with internal peers and external stakeholders
Foster strategic crossfunctional collaborations with key ACS senior leaders within SRPP CFWB and across ACS as a whole

Community Building External Relations and Resource Development

Partner with the SRPP CFWB and ACS leadership on designing external publicfacing materials
Identify forums and other settings in which to showcase programmatic implementation and outcome accomplishments
Work closely with the Associate Commissioner to identify financial or other supports to maximize the FEC practice internally and externally
Cultivate and maintain relationships with key local and national resource partners including public and private stakeholders to support the FECs mission and model development
Identify opportunities for crosssite collaboration with local and national communitybuilding/family strengthening initiatives
Engage with leaders in the sector to share insights and best practices staying abreast of new priorities and initiatives and contributing to the broader field

Leadership Competencies

Experience overseeing a contracted system of social human and/or communitybased programs preferably within a local or state government setting
Experience collaboratively leading a program/contract management team in providing budget management coaching and technical assistance to ensure systems of services/programming is implemented with high quality to families and high levels of model fidelity.
Fostering a culture of trust mutual respect collaboration accountability ownership and mentorship while ensuring welldefined and manageable roles and equitable distribution of workloads across the team.


ADDITONAL INFO:
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.


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DIRECTOR OF FIELD OPERATIONS ( 95600

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