Deputy Director
(Posting #170-24)
The NJ Department of Children and Families is seeking a catalytic individual with senior level management experience in child welfare to lead work with kinship families, resource families, and adoption, Kinship Legal Guardianship (KLG), and resource home licensing practice. This position, reporting to the Assistant Commissioner and serving in a high performing senior leadership team, will be responsible for innovating with staff and across divisions to increase the use of kinship care, engagement with resource families, and ensure timely and high-quality adoption and legal guardianship practice across the state. The candidate must be passionate about child welfare work, and knowledgeable of adoption, guardianship, licensing, and resource family policy, practices, and regulation; facility with administrative processes; and have a strong track record of growing and developing staff.
NJ DCF is nationally recognized for its advancements in child welfare. Our leadership team knows that the work we do is urgent, and we take bold and strategic steps to produce needed change. Recent examples include:
SPECIAL NOTE: While this position reports into Trenton, NJ, the physical location of the position is flexible, depending on where the selected candidate resides.
SPECIAL NOTE: This position may be eligible to work remotely for up to two days in a calendar week.
RESPONSIBILITIES: This Deputy Director is responsible for oversight and management of statewide operations for Adoption Services, Office of Resource Families, and Office of Resource Family Licensing.
The Deputy Director will be the leader responsible for driving and sustaining significant practice changes, including increased use of kinship care.
REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; Master’s in Social Work preferred.
EXPERIENCE: Eight (8) years of experience in a public or private organization involved in programs focusing on child welfare and child protective services – at least four (4) years of which shall have involved training, coaching or mentoring focused specifically on improving child welfare case practice, and at least three (3) years of which must have involved management of at least 15 or more staff.
RESUME NOTE: Eligibility determinations will be based upon information presented on the resume only. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an evaluation of one’s transcripts from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission by the above closing date. Failure to do so may result in your ineligibility.
LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN FORGIVENESS: As a prospective employee of the State of New Jersey, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.
SAME APPLICANTS: If you are applying under the NJ “SAME” program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter), must be submitted along with your resume by the closing date indicated above.
For more information on the SAME Program visit their website at: https://nj.gov/csc/same/overview/index.shtml, e-mail: CSC-SAME@csc.nj.gov or call CSC at (609) 292-4144, option 3.
RESIDENCY LAW: Please refer to the New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ website at www.state.nj.us/dcf.
SALARY: Commensurate with education and experience.
TO APPLY: Submit a cover letter and resume as a single PDF document, saving the file by your Last Name, First Name.
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Deputy Director
(Posting #170-24)
The NJ Department of Children and Families is seeking a catalytic individual with senior level management experience in child welfare to lead work with kinship families, resource families, and adoption…