Social Services Administrator – Visually Impaired Programs

JobAps; New Castle, Northern (DE, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is seeking a Social Service Administrator to join the Instructional Materials and Resource Center and the prison braille program, including James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.

You will help develop policies and procedures, monitor services, and ensure compliance with state and federal regulations while collaborating with operations staff, agencies, and community partners.

Qualifications

• Three years experience in health or human services work applying theories, principles, laws and practices.
• Six months experience in health or human services program administration.
• Six months experience in developing policies or procedures.
• Six months experience in interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months experience in narrative report writing.

Responsibilities

• Monitors, evaluates, collects and analyzes program data.
• Prepares interpretative reports of program goals and objectives, provision of services and programs/services ability to meet standards and regulations.
• Participates in developing policies, regulations, forms, proposal requests, implementing new procedures, monitors, develops, reviews, updates, negotiates contracts, and/or prepares grant applications.
• Acts as liaison with operations' staff, State/Federal agencies and community organizations.
• Analyzes problems, applies policy to problem situations, responds to requests for information and questions regarding services.
• Assists as consultant, coordinator/liaison for special programs and/or projects.
• Assesses impact of proposed rules on current operations financially and programmatically.
• May supervise professional staff engaged in monitoring functions, special projects and/or clerical staff performing record keeping functions.

Skills

Health or human services experience

Policy development

Program administration

Narrative report writing

Data analysis

Job description

The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is seeking a Social Service Administrator to join the Instructional Materials and Resource Center and the prison braille program, including James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna.

You will help develop policies and procedures, monitor services, and ensure compliance with state and federal regulations while collaborating with operations staff, agencies, and community partners.