The client is seeking a Director of Child, Family, and Adult Services to lead a major department within its Consolidated Health and Human Services Agency. This role performs complex professional and administrative work directing social service and public assistance activities and programs, with direct accountability to the Deputy County Manager. The director oversees operations across Youth and Family Services, Adult Services, Operations, Strategy and Innovation, Clinical and Contractual Services.
Key responsibilities include developing departmental operational and strategic plans, goals, and objectives for approval by the governing board, and establishing and maintaining performance measures to evaluate departmental effectiveness. The director will assess performance against established metrics and implement corrective actions as needed, while also developing and recommending changes to the annual budget, monitoring financial performance, approving expenditures, and reviewing financial reports to ensure alignment with county and state fiscal policies and procedures.
The director will assess community and departmental resources relative to client and public needs, ensuring adequate capacity to protect children and vulnerable adults, preserve families, promote self-sufficiency, and meet basic human needs through expanded program activity and initiatives. The role will identify public and private grant opportunities, partner with the community to prepare grant proposals, support grant writing, and oversee performance under grants. It also includes establishing collaborative relationships with nonprofit human services organizations, setting program goals, approving policies and procedures, conducting program status reviews, reviewing staff reports, and ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and policy requirements.