Community Director
State of Florida
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: West Palm Beach • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- This is a high-level position responsible for supporting regional operations related to prevention and ongoing services.
- The role serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in their regional communities and acts as the liaison between the local agencies and headquarters for all matters.
- The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in child welfare, particularly in the continuum of ongoing service delivery.
- Contribute to the development and execution of regional and statewide operational plans focused on prevention and permanency services.
- Apply change management strategies to promote a culture of innovation and performance improvement.
- Collaboration with regional internal and external partners, the OCFW Contracts team, the OCFW policy team, and the training team will be essential in identifying and addressing service gaps.
- This is professional work supervising and directing employees; including but not limited to communicating with, motivating, training, evaluating employees, planning, and directing their work; and having the authority to effectively recommend actions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field (equivalent years of experience can substitute for education requirements) required.
- Bachelor’s degree in health and human services field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in successfully developing high quality business strategies and plans ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives is required.
- 5+ years of experience in successfully overseeing operations and business activities to ensure they produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall organizational strategy and mission is required.
- 5+ years of experience in the health and human services field OR workforce field is preferred.
- Critical Thinking
- Experience with FSFN, CCWIS, other child welfare related system
- Frequent travel within the region required
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong negotiating skills.
- Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Exceptionally self-motivated and directed.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Keen attention to detail.
Benefits
- Highly competitive set of employee benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
business strategy developmentoperational oversightchange managementservice deliveryperformance improvementanalytical skillsproblem-solving
Soft skills
critical thinkingcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsnegotiating skillsself-motivationattention to detail