REGION PROGRAM DIRECTOR - CP (Child Protection Director)- 60003204

Requisition No: 836218 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: REGION PROGRAM DIRECTOR - CP (Child Protection Director)- 60003204

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 60003204 

Salary:  AGENCY UPDATE 

Posting Closing Date: 09/02/2024 

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Region Program Director - CP (Child Protection Director)

Department of Children and Families

Suncoast  Region

South-Manatee, Sarasota, Lee & Collier Counties

Open Competitive

 

DESCRIPTION: This is an executive level leadership position tasked with leading the Suncoast Region-South Child Protective Investigations Program (Manatee, Sarasota, De Soto, Charlotte, Lee, Glades, Hendry, and Collier Counties) .  This position will serve at the direction of the Statewide Director of Child Protection in the Office of Child and Family Well-Being.  This position will require travel throughout the Suncoast region directing regional CPI operations, with occasional statewide travel.

 

 

REQUIREMENTS

 

Essential Job Functions:  The Regional Child Protection Director is the operations lead for each region, and manages the Child Protective Investigations Services processes in a manner necessary to fulfill all plans, goals, processes, standards, and performance indicators.  The position is responsible for focusing on service delivery, operational improvement, industrialization, efficiency and quality client service. 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.).

 

• Through the authority of the Statewide Director of Protection and Safety, supervises and oversees the day to day management and administration of all regional Child Protective Investigations programs. 
• Ensures the administration of all service programs are carried out in conformity with statewide services plans and all other policies and guidelines established by the Office of Child and Family Well-Being. 
• Coordinates with the Director of Protection and Safety and Regional Community Directors to assure that service delivery is consistent with applicable law, rules, policy and procedure.
• Implements Departmental rules and procedures, ensuring staff are provided training regarding Department procedures and rules, and conducts reviews of staff compliance with rules and procedures.
• Identifies and assesses local needs and approves local systems of care.
• Coordinates the services provided by the Department in the Region with those of other public and privates agencies.
• Conducts routine analyses on state and federal performance indicators for the program areas under the direct responsibility of department staff and submits plans to the Office of Child and Family Well-Being for improvement initiatives.
• Conducts routine analyses to ensure that all services delivered by all Family and Community Services programs, regardless of whether those services are under direct Department control or delivered through a contracted vendor, are meeting established program performance standards and goals, including those standards that apply to the Office of Child and Family Well-being, and submit all findings and any resulting improvement plans or improvement initiatives to the Director of Protection and Safety.
• Oversees all quality assurance and ongoing continual quality improvement initiatives under the responsibility of regional department staff or required through vendor contract requirements for the program areas of assignment and routine