Support Enforcement Specialist, Suffolk District Office W2008

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Suffolk (VA); On-site; USD 46,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and life insurance benefits

Pre-tax spending accounts

State retirement plan

Paid holidays

Vacation and tuition assistance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Virginia Department of Social Services in Suffolk is seeking a Support Enforcement Specialist to manage child support cases, engage families, and enforce orders. You will locate noncustodial parents, determine obligations, and coordinate with agencies to ensure payment and coverage.

Strong communication and analytical skills are required. The role emphasizes high-volume caseloads, teamwork, and delivering quality service while navigating legal and administrative processes in a public sector

Qualifications

• Interact with a diverse public in a service setting and solve problems tactfully.
• Collect information through interviewing and reviewing records to determine actions.
• Plan, organize and handle multiple priorities independently in caseload settings.
• Interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies to ensure compliance and outcomes.
• Use a PC with remote access, email, information systems and Office apps.
• Demonstrate strong listening/negotiating skills with clear written and oral communication.
• Perform basic mathematical computations.
• Work collaboratively to achieve team goals.

Responsibilities

• Locate noncustodial parents and engage families to ensure support.
• Collaborate with state and other agencies on child support cases.
• Establish paternity and determine obligations and healthcare coverage.
• Enforce orders through administrative and judicial actions and testify in court when required.
• Provide resources and partnerships to help parents become self-sufficient.
• Meet performance benchmarks in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Diversity interaction

Interpersonal skills

Information gathering

Analytical thinking

Office software

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Title: Support Enforcement Specialist, Suffolk District Office W2008

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist I

Hiring Range: $45,739 - $51,750, commensurate with experience

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Department of Social Services

Location: DCSE SUFFOLK

Agency Website: https://dss.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) engages families for success. Its Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCSE) manages nearly 246,000 cases to ensure that child support payments of over $598 million per year reach families across the Commonwealth. Support Enforcement Specialists establish and sustain helping relationships with parents who have payment obligations as well as parents who depend on those payments.

The Support Enforcement Specialist (SES) serves as program agent for assigned child support cases, engaging families to ensure the financial and family support they need to grow and thrive.

Duties in this position may include:

• locating non-custodial parents
• working with other state and country child support agencies
• establishing paternity
• determining and assessing child support obligations and health care coverage
• ensuring parents comply with child and/or medical support orders through a number of administrative and judicial enforcement actions
• providing testimony in court proceedings when required
• connecting parents with resources and partners that support their ability to be self-sufficient and active participants in their child lives

The SES position manages a large caseload equal in volume and complexity and draws on a wide range of case management and communication skills to influence noncustodial and custodial parents toward supporting their children. Employees are expected to meet defined performance benchmarks and goals to ensure efficiency and accountability in our fast-paced work environment.

The ideal candidate enjoys:

• delivering a high level of customer service while maximizing payment collection efforts and addressing other customer service inquiries
• handling sensitive case information (legal, financial, medical and other personal circumstances)
• researching, analyzing and following up on accounts to verify established protocols have been achieved
• interacting with customer to resolve their challenges and questions using multiple communication channels
• developing effective partnerships within and across teams that create a culture of continuous support for each other and customers
• the challenge of building strong relationships through proactively calling customers who may be evading or distrust the child support system
• a high-volume and detail-oriented role where multiple conflicting priorities are consistently part of the daily workload.

The Division of Child Support Enforcement offers an interactive team setting, where staff receive structured training, and the benefit of on-the-job coaching. Support Enforcement Specialists are given the tools to develop the competence and independence to successfully meet the challenges of engaging in this fast-paced, performance-driven environment.

VDSS engages its employees for success by offering comprehensive pay and employee benefits, development, and unique job and career opportunities in public service. VDSS employees make a vital difference for Virginia's families.

In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDSS offers excellent health and life insurance benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short-and Long-Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching – Employee Benefits.

Minimum Qualifications

Must have demonstrated:

• Ability to interact with a diverse public in a service setting to tactfully solve problems, sometimes in difficult situations where conflict is encountered.
• Skill in information collection through interviewing and obtaining/reviewing records, documents, and reports, and the ability to analyze, determine, and document the appropriate action in order to achieve results.
• Ability to work independently: plan, organize, and handle multiple priorities in a case management/caseload setting.
• Ability to interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies and/or procedures to ensure compliance and produce positive outcomes and results.
• Skill in the use of a personal computer using remote access technology, email, automated information systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated strong and effective listening and negotiating skills combined with outstanding written and oral communications.
• Demonstrated skills in performing basic mathematical computations.
• Ability to work in a considerate and respectful way as a team member to set, clarify and achieve individual and team goals.

Additional Considerations

• Work experience in gathering and organizing client documentation to process financial transactions and/or account reconciliation.
• Knowledge of and/or working experience in legal processes, to include preparing legal documents and providing court testimony.
• Work experience in child support enforcement.
• Work experience in the collection of past due accounts.

Where “work experience” is listed in an additional consideration above, consideration is recent working experience to ensure relevance to current technology, work practices and methods, and familiarity with current laws, regulations, policies and procedures.

Where “work experience” is listed in an additional consideration above, consideration in jobs whose duties show that the “working experience” was a primary purpose of employment.

Contact Information

Name: VDSS – Division of Human Resources

Phone: [e-mail]

Email: [e-mail]

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans and people with National Service experience are encouraged to apply. For more information about our employment practices, please visit our 'Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan'. Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date.

In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDSS offers excellent health and life insurance benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short-and Long-Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching – Employee Benefits.

If you have been affected by Policy 1.30 Layoff as a state employee and possess a valid Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Form) or a Preferential Hiring Card (Blue Card), you must submit this document through the 'Virginia Jobs' (RMS) employment site when you apply.

Virginia Department of Social Services does not provide sponsorship. The Virginia Department of Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages diversity within its workforce. We are a 'Virginia Values Veterans' (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application or resume. Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans and people with National Service experience are encouraged to apply. For more information about our employment practices, please visit our 'Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan'. Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date.

In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDSS offers excellent health and life insurance benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short-and Long-Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching – Employee Benefits.

Virginia Department of Social Services does not provide sponsorship. The Virginia Department of Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages diversity within its workforce.