Senior Child Welfare Operations Leader

DCFS-Department of Children and Family Services; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Children and Family Services in Baton Rouge, LA, seeks a Child Welfare Manager 2 to ensure safe, timely responses to high-risk cases, oversee two statewide programs and coordinate complex interventions.

This senior role requires seven years in child welfare or equivalent, strong leadership, and the ability to navigate policy, legislation, and inter-agency collaboration to protect children and support families.

Qualifications

• Seven years of experience in child welfare; OR
• Six years of full-time work experience in any field plus four years of experience in child welfare; OR
• A bachelor’s degree plus four years of experience in child welfare; OR
• An advanced degree in a social science or behavioral health field, nursing, or a juris doctorate plus three years of experience in child welfare.

Responsibilities

• Directs the programmatic practice/oversight of the two (2) statewide programs providing child welfare services to children and families; specifically, the 24-hour Child Safety Response Program and Child Consultant Decision Making Program.
• Ensures oversight of a twenty-four-hour hotline to the Child Safety Response Center hotline, including ensuring adequate staff coverage in order to respond to reports of abuse and/or neglect while also ensuring that the wait time for all community stakeholders is minimized.
• Collaborates with other DCFS executive management and team members to coordinate the interrelated responsibilities and activities of the respective divisions and to assure relevance and feasibility of programmatic initiatives.
• Conducts staff meetings; prepares and delivers presentations at conferences, workshops and trainings, responds to requests for information from the media,
• Assists in the drafting of legislation and reviews and directs reviews of proposed legislation to assess programmatic impact and develops implementation plans for enacted legislation affecting Centralized Intake.
• Performs other duties as assigned for the smooth operation of the Department.

Job description

Department of Children and Family Services in Baton Rouge, LA, seeks a Child Welfare Manager 2 to ensure safe, timely responses to high-risk cases, oversee two statewide programs and coordinate complex interventions.

This senior role requires seven years in child welfare or equivalent, strong leadership, and the ability to navigate policy, legislation, and inter-agency collaboration to protect children and support families.