Associate Commissioner

Job Description

This job opening has been reposted. Previous applicants do not need to reapply.

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $162,000.00 - $182,000.00

YOU MUST BE A CURRENT EMPLOYEE OF THE ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDEN’S SERVICES TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.

THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE.


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.

Within ACS, the Division of Preventive Services (DPS) is a beacon of support to families by connecting them to community-based resources. The division works to provide resources that maintain the safety and wellbeing of families. DPS provides guidance and resources to our contracted providers that strengthen their ability to assess and address the service needs of families.

Community Based Strategies (CBS) is committed to strengthening prevention services for children, families, and communities through collaborative program management and strategic initiatives that leverage innovation, data and research, and human-centered design. The team’s work seeks to enhance racial equity, incorporate multi-stakeholder voices, and elevate family choice. The Community Based Strategies team is charged with overseeing a coordinated implementation of evidence-based and research-informed prevention service models; designing a robust and consistent system to monitor and support programs’ sustained alignment to service model fidelity, contractual expectations, and ACS standards for service delivery; and partnering with contracted providers to ensure services are high quality and socially just.

The Division of Prevention Services (DPS) is seeking an outstanding candidate to serve as Associate Commissioner for Community Based Strategies. Reporting to the Deputy Commissioner for DPS, the selected candidate will be an integral member of the division’s leadership team.

Responsibilities of the role include:

- Communicate and implement the agency’s mission with external partners and across ACS divisions.
- Act as a liaison between ACS and its contracted prevention service providers to plan and facilitate effective communication regarding the agency’s policies and initiatives.
- Manage the day-to-day strategic and operational processes of the Community Based Strategies (CBS) portfolio.
- Provide exemplary leadership to the following teams within CBS:

- Program Management & Sustainability, develop and implement strategies to ensure more than 100 prevention programs are implemented in alignment to service model fidelity and in full compliance with NYC child welfare requirements. Manage contracts, budgets, and relationships with model purveyors. Program Officers conduct research and use data analytics and qualitative methods to better understand program operations and performance, including utilization and program engagement, and to drive programmatic improvement and evaluation.

- Operations and Systems (OPS), manage, support, and ensure effective planning, implementation, and sustainability of new or enhanced ACS systems that are utilized by contracted providers and internal stakeholders. The Systems team ensures efficiency and utilization of DPS-One Stop for all prevention staff.

- Strategy Planning and Analysis (PA) work to integrate data into decision-making processes for the division.

- Participate in cross-divisional collaboration, support staff professional development, and uphold best practices in support of the division’s safety culture.
- Build and expand the unit’s capacity to be agile and adaptable through continual innovation and sustainability
- Collaborate with the Prevention Parent Advisor and other partners to implement initiatives within the division, particularly those that incorporate lived experience in the practice of prevention services.
- Collaborate with the Research and Innovation team to conduct robust research, data driven needs assessments, analysis, and education to advance the use of best practice approaches, including evidence-based models and practice frameworks, in New York City’s prevention system.
- Aligned with the division’s Chief Research & Innovation Officer, support strategic design and implementation of initiatives in prevention services, including those that further the goals of social justice and racial equity.
- Partner with the Division of Policy, Planning,