Executive Director

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THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $110,067 - $126,000. THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST. 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. The Family Services Division (FSD) and its network of contracted providers deliver one of the largest and most diverse continuums of community-based child welfare prevention services in the nation and across New York City to improve safety, well-being, and permanency for thousands of families and children each year. focuses on systems improvement, innovation, and strategy initiatives that require collaboration with major stakeholders to address urgent or emerging provider and family needs, city or state mandates, and high-priority strategic goals of ACS leadership. The Office of Program Management and Sustainability (OPMS) oversees a portfolio of multi-stakeholder (internal, intergovernmental, and external) prevention strategy, improvement, and innovation projects. The Office of Program Management and Sustainability (OPMS) manages numerous cross-functional projects focused on program design, data, and system sustainability. OPMS's initiatives include collaborating with service providers, legal, finance, procurement, compliance, systems, and operations, and developing a strategy within the parameters of policy/regulations (city, state, and federal). The Program Design and Implementation (PDI) team within the Office of Program Management and Sustainability develops and implements strategies to ensure that the full continuum of prevention programs is implemented in alignment with service model fidelity and in full compliance with NYC child welfare requirements. The PDI team provides ongoing contract management and support for providers and model purveyors. The team holds monthly model cohorts to bring together providers and purveyors to discuss case practice challenges, program data, continuous quality improvement, and fidelity. The team also hosts trainings and convenings for providers and ACS staff to learn about using data effectively to improve practice, frameworks for effective implementation, and incorporating families' perspectives into service delivery. Additionally, the team holds monthly administrative meetings with each model purveyor to discuss case practice expectations between child welfare and model requirements. This position is an opportunity for an outstanding candidate to bring a strategic lens to the portfolio of evidence based programs for the therapeutic and treatment models (BSFT,CPP, FFT, FFT Adaptations, MST-PRV, MST-CAN & TST) and the portfolio of programs implementing the family support frameworks (Solution-Based casework, Family Connections, Mobility Mentoring) . This work will require leading critical workstreams to develop a strategy on fidelity monitoring and implement across multiple internal and external partners. The Executive Director will support the unit to implement processes that inform practice guidance, develop metrics for implementation, support the use of data for decision making, and successfully carry out the strategic goals of ACS leadership. The team oversees a portfolio of multi-stakeholder (internal, intergovernmental, and external) prevention strategy, improvement, and innovation projects. The team manages other cross-functional project teams with expertise in a wide range of topic areas to design and implement projects. This includes a mix of service provider, legal, finance, procurement, compliance, policy/regulation (city, state, and federal), technology, and data analysis stakeholder groups and topic areas. The ideal candidate can synthesize complex issues, be flexible to develop strategies to respond to identified challenges and has experience to support and guide staff on all levels (Directors, Program Officers and Program Associates) when there are competing priorities. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate cognitive flexibility when leading initiatives, has strong interpersonal and lateral leadership skills and can facilitate large groups to promote cross-collaboration to drive towards a path forward. The Executive Director will report to the Assistant Commissioner and will be tasked to fulfill the following duties: - Manage the day-to-day operations of the unit including providing support to the director overseeing Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Functional Family Therapy - Child Welfare Ad