DCS PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2 - RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENT TEAM - STATEWIDE - 80905

State of Tennessee; Tennessee; On-site; USD 79,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Tennessee is seeking a DCS Program Director 2 for the Residential Placement Team statewide. You will oversee about fifty residential placement agencies and manage a ten-person team handling youth referrals and admissions.

The role requires coordinating with regional operations and statewide services to ensure effective placement and support. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of related work, with four years in child services evaluation or

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five years of professional experience in counseling, case management, program evaluation, education, auditing, accounting, or business/process improvement.
• Four years of experience must be in children or juvenile services program evaluation or case review work.
• Process improvement certification or experience (LEAN or Six Sigma) in listed fields is acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage approximately fifty agencies providing residential placement and other specialized services.
• Supervise a team of ten individuals for referral and admission of youth to programs.
• Maintain primary responsibility for the department's relationship with agencies and leadership teams.
• Coordinate placement and support with regional operations and statewide services.

Skills

Counseling

Case management

Program evaluation

Education

Auditing

Accounting

Business/process improvement

Social services grant coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LEAN

Six Sigma

Job description

Executive Service

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Executive Service

DCS PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2 - RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENT TEAM - STATEWIDE

Department of Children's Services

Network Development

Dresden, Jackson, Memphis, Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, Columbia, Cookeville, Chattanooga, Oak Ridge, Knoxville, Maryville, Johnson City, TN

Annual Salary: $78,528.00 - $101,448.00

Closing Date: 09/14/2026

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Job Overview

The Network Development Residential Team Director is responsible for the oversight and management of approximately fifty agencies providing residential placement and other specialized placement services. The Director has oversight of a team of ten individuals managing the referral and admission of youth to these programs and has the primary responsibility for managing the Department's relationship with the agency and their leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

The Director serves as the primary contact with their peers in regional operations and statewide services and is responsible for coordinating placement and support with and for the other Network Development functional areas.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to five years of professional work in one or a combination of the following:

• counseling or case management services
• program evaluation
• education
• auditing
• accounting
• business/process improvement

And/or

• social services grant coordination

At least four years of this experience must have been in:

• children or juvenile services program evaluation
• case review work

or

• process improvement (such as LEAN or Six Sigma certification) in any field listed above.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.