OPERATIONS & MGMT CONSULTANT MGR - SES - 60074719

Requisition No: 837692 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: OPERATIONS & MGMT CONSULTANT MGR - SES - 60074719

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 60074719 

Salary:  To Be Determined 

Posting Closing Date: 09/23/2024 

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This is a Northwest Region position. The successful applicant will be housed in accordance with their residence.

This is a highly responsible, independent managerial position within the Department of Children and Families, Regional Child Welfare Critical Child Safety Team.  The position is responsible for managing the region MDT and/or Family Finders programs.  These programs provide direct support to frontline staff by facilitating the collaborative work of multidisciplinary team (MDT) staffings and family finding efforts.

This is advanced professional work supervising and directing employees. The primary duty of the incumbent in this position is to spend the majority of their time communicating with, motivating, training and evaluating employees, planning and directing their work; and having the authority to effectively recommend actions such as: hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, promote, discharge, assign, and reward or discipline direct reports.  Evaluates employees against established standards and takes appropriate actions when necessary (i.e. recognition, reward, corrective action, etc.).

Ensures the coordination and facilitation of staffings that may result in competing opinions and recommendations from participants. Ensures diligent efforts and advanced searches are being made towards locating relatives and fictive kin to identify and build positive connections between the child and relatives/fictive kin.

Reviews Florida Statutes, DCF Operational Procedures, policies, and related directives for impact on Child Protection, to keep staff up to date. Analyzes and evaluates impact on operations; identifies protentional problems, recommends appropriate actions when warranted to leadership. Identifies improvements and implements adjustments to ensure program effectiveness and efficiency.

Develops and recommends planning strategies to enhance and increase field performance and quality as it relates to finding families/relatives, fictive kin, and other potential placement to keeping children out of congregate care. Consults with and assists the Child Protection staff and CBC in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of existing operations, systems, and procedures, as it relates to placement options for families.

Provides assistance to Program Administrators and their staff in the management and operation of Child Protection through the evaluation and observations of the MDT Coordinators ability to coordinate and facilitate multidisciplinary staffings in person or remotely and send notifications to all participants who are required to attend, actively and professionally mediate disagreement during MDT staffings by using conflict resolution and collaborative problem solving, and provide timely notification and written reports to all related entities including Children’s Legal Services and DCF Regional Designees as well as evaluate and observe the Family Finders ability to conduct diligent searches and locate as many potential placement options and family connection as well as participates in any related staffings to influence group decision making.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.