Contract Specialist
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About The Position
The Administration for Children's Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services, and provides subsidized childcare vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement and programs for youth in the community. The Division of Family Court Legal Services (FCLS) is primarily responsible for representing the Administration for Children's Services in child neglect and abuse cases, permanency hearings, juvenile delinquency hearings and other child welfare proceedings in the five Family Courts. FCLS attorneys work collaboratively with ACS Child Protective Specialists (CPS), foster care agency case planners and other ACS staff and child welfare stakeholders to further the agency's mission on behalf of children, youth and families. The FCLS Contract Management Unit oversees and monitors the FCLS' contracts pertaining to the use of expert witnesses, service of process, validations, medical records, and legal publications. Under supervision, with wide latitude for independent judgment, the Clerical Associate performs responsible supervisory and/or moderately difficult clerical duties in support of office/unit functioning.
