Adoption Program Manager

Community Partnership For Children•Daytona Beach, FL

15h•$67,000

About The Position

To manage the daily operations of the adoption program and supervise direct service and support staff, coordinate service delivery to ensure that client needs, program goals, and contract objectives are effectively met.

Requirements

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Excellent organizational and prioritization skills
Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
Ability to utilize solution-focused and family-centered approach
Ability to effectively collaborate and maintain high morale among employees and system partners
Effective assessment and planning skills
Ability to effectively handle crises
Demonstrate cultural and linguistic competence and sensitivity to population served
Knowledge of community social services.
Ability to identify improvements and adjustments needed to ensure program effectiveness and efficiency.
Ability to work flexible hours
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college required and a minimum of seven (7) years of related experience in child welfare field, required
Child Welfare Certification required
Adoption competent, required
Possess a current Background Clearance Screening Letter as required by DCF; and successfully complete the background screening requirements for Community Partnership for Children.
If local travel is required, a Valid Florida driver’s license and documentation of current automobile insurance, with $100,000/$300,000 bodily injury liability limit, is required.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree from an accredited college required and a minimum of seven (7) years of related experience in child welfare field, preferred

Responsibilities

Provide support to adoption staff and provide ongoing assistance to staff in coordinating services for clients.
Provide managerial oversight, consultation, and support to CPC’s Adoption units to include quality assurance and quality improvement activities.
Complete staffings and provide case consultation assistance to ensure timely permanency achievement and resolve barriers impacting permanency achievement for permanently committed children.
Provide secondary oversight for approval processes related to prospective adoptive families, including review/approval of adoptive home studies.
Provide training to new staff and ongoing training to existing staff.
Serve as single point of contact for adoption services requests and approval
Participate in adoption case review transfer meetings and/or facilitate for permanently committed children
Provide secondary level oversight and completes case reviews to support sufficiency and accuracy of subsidy files prior to adoption placement and finalization.
Serve as single point of contact for private adoption subsidies
Facilitate required Disclosure Meetings and sibling separation staffings, and participate in other required adoption and/or post adopt staffings, including but not limited to permanency staffings, IPT, FSPT, as needed
Provide adoption related technical assistance and training to staff, including Adoption Specialists, Adoption Case Managers, Adoption Program Specialists, Post Adopt Specialists, and CPC Case Management staff, as needed.
Provide managerial oversight to CPC Post Adopt Services and directly supervise Post Adopt Specialists.
Facilitate the Adoption Application Review Committee process, as needed.
Responsible for ensuring compliance with required Adoption policies, operating procedures, administrative code, and statutory requirements.
Ensure consistent education in the understanding of program requirements through regular participation in trainings, conferences, and workgroups related to Adoptions.
Assist in maintaining policies and procedures for adoption related services and programmatic improvement.
Actively participate in the quality management process.
Represent CPC in the community in an effective and professional manner to increase the understanding of the purpose and value of services.
Complete special quality improvement projects, as assigned.
Provide guidance to adoption staff by coaching, motivating, training and providing other staff development activities.
Review and ensure staff complete all documentation and reports in a professional and timely manner.
Ensure court reports are submitted to CLS within the required timeframes.
Prepare and conduct staff performance evaluations.
Participate in the quality improvement process.
Collect, analyze and report data in area of supervision.
Participate in on call activities