Deputy Director

Deputy Director

This position is only open to internal ACS applicants. The selected candidate will be offered a salary of $140,106. The Administration for Children's Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community-based 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.

Job Description

The Deputy Director (DD) has the overall responsibility for a team of Child Protective and / or Family Support Units. The Deputy Director 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 assignments 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 borough's 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 decisions 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

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of full-time, 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, Day-Care, 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 Master's 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.