SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANLAYST SUPV-SES- 60006454

Requisition No: 840609 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANLAYST SUPV-SES- 60006454

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60006454 

Salary:  $60,000 to $80,000 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 12/06/2024 

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The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.

THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION.  CANDIDATE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE TALLAHASSEE OR SOUTHEAST REGIONAL OFFICE.

THIS IS PENDING RECLASSIFICATION.

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as a Senior Management Analyst Supervisor - SES. This position will collaborate with each section within the program office and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented. 

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• This is 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.).
• This position is a highly responsible and rewarding position in the Program Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) assisting the Director of Regional Operations and Initiatives in administering and evaluating SAMH programs. This position plans, monitors and evaluates major treatment, services, or rehabilitative programming with most of the focus on child welfare integration.
• This position will work with multiple systems within the Behavioral Health continuum to assist with quality, service array, oversight, performance, and integration. This is supervisory work planning, monitoring, and administering the Northeast Region System of Care to ensure that the community mental health and substance abuse service delivery components operate in a coordinated, efficient manner for the benefit of the DCF, SAMH clients.
• This position exercises independent judgment in formulating policies and procedures which have significant impact on personnel, administration, and operations specifically targeting the Child Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programming and integration of that programming with Child Welfare operations.
• Serves as the oversight and assisting the director in all matters of the DCF SAMH as it relates to Child Welfare integration programming and co-supervision of internal SAMH staff including such grant funded positions as Behavioral Health Consultants, Peers Specialists and other future integration efforts which produce internal staff within the SAMH department.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis.
• Knowledge of basic management principles and practices.
• Knowledge of the child welfare and behavioral health systems.
• Knowledge/understanding of the impact of mental health conditions and substance use disorders on parenting ability and child safety.
• Strong writing skills as evidenced by an ability to draft reports or presentations.
• Ability to identify the nature or problems associated with access to treatment services.
• Ability to communicate effectively and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others. Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to supervise people.
• Ability to determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to management analysis activities.
• Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document work flow and other activities relating to the improvement of management practices.
• Ability to organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents and other written materials.
• Ability to conduct fact-finding research.
• Ability to solve problems and make decisions.
• Ability to work independently.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Two years supervising or serving in a leadership role.
• Licensure in psychology, social work, mental health counseling, family and marriage therapy or closely related field.
• Three years of post-graduate experience treating mental health and/or substance use disorders.
• A bachelor's degree from a college or university is preferred and four years of professional behavioral health experience, experience in health care, program planning, program research, program evaluation.
• A master's degree from a college or university can substitute for one year of the required experience.
• Professional experience as described above can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the preferred college education.

Preference will be given to applicants to have:

• Training in motivational interviewing.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

• Health insurance
• Life insurance; $25,000 policy is free plus option to purchase additional life insurance
• Dental, vision and supplemental insurance
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
  • (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com);
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Opportunities for career advancement;
• Tuition waiver for public college courses;
• And more!

For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

DCF EMPLOYMENT DISCLOSURES

US CITIZEN REQUIREMENT Only US citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired.

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM REGISTRATION All selected male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS).  Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire.  For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov.

RETIREE NOTICE If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you required to repay all benefits received depending upon the date of your retirement.

BACKGROUND SCREENING It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment, and, if applicable, also be screened in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, F.S., and Chapter 408, F.S.  No applicant may begin employment until the background screening results are received, reviewed for any disqualifying offenses, and approved by the Agency.  Background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for State and Federal criminal records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and may include local criminal history checks through local law enforcement agencies.

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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.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.