Director II State Office Contracts

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) works to build on strengths of families and communities to keep children and vulnerable adults safe, so they thrive. We do this through investigations, services, and referrals.

What You Get Beyond Your Paycheck
When you join the State of Texas, your monthly paycheck is just one part of your real income. Our benefits provide extra value that many private employers simply don’t match—often adding hundreds of dollars each month to what you take home or save.

Here’s what you get as a full-time employee:

100% paid health insurance for you, and 50% paid for eligible family members—saving you hundreds every month in out-of-pocket medical costs
Retirement plans with lifetime monthly payments after five years of state service, plus options to save even more with 401(k) and 457 plans
Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave so you can recharge and take care of life outside work (that’s time off you’re actually paid for)
Optional dental, vision, and life insurance—at rates much lower than most private plans
Flexible spending accounts for added tax savings on health and dependent care
Employee discounts on things like gym memberships, electronics, and entertainment

You also might qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which could help you pay off federal student loans faster.
You can see all the details here: ERS recruitment brochure

Functional Title: Director II State Office Contracts

Brief Job Description:
Performs advanced (senior-level) managerial work providing direction and guidance in strategic operations and planning.  Manages the daily activities of staff within a large and highly complex business functions for three statewide contract units: (1) Solicitation Development, (2) State Office Contracts, and (3) Children Without Placement Support Services.  This position stablishes daily goals and objectives; develops guidelines; procedures, and policies; develops schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving established goals; coordinates and evaluates business functions and needs; develops and evaluates budget requests. Supervises the work of others and works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

Requirements

• Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to program activities and/or business functions; and the principles and practices of public administration and management.
• Skill in establishing plans and setting objectives and goals that support an overall business strategy.
• Ability to direct and organize program activities and/or business functions; to establish goals and objectives that support the strategic plan; to identify problems, evaluate alternatives, and implement effective solutions; to develop and evaluate policies and procedures; to prepare reports; to communicate effectively; and to supervise the work of others.
• May require registration, certification, or licensure in a specialty area.
• Experience in the management and direction of a program relevant to the assignment. Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in a field relevant to the assignment is generally preferred. Experience and education may be substituted for one another.
• Experience providing full-time consultive, supervisory, managerial, professional, executive or technical work which must include: (1) the analysis of work problems having an administrative aspect; (2) the interpretation and application of complex written materials; (3) planning, organizing, and coordinating requirements for support services or program operations where a wide range of demands are involved, and (4) the management of professional staff.

Nice To Haves

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university.  Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of five years of experience in the management and direction of a program in the field of Social Services.
• Current Purchased Client Services experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs program activities and/or business functions within a department or division.
• Develops and implements techniques for evaluating program activities and/or business functions within a department or division; and identifies need for changes.
• Develops and establishes goals and objectives consistent with the agency’s strategic plan.
• Develops, reviews, and approves budgets and major expenditures; and ensures that requirements of funding sources are met.
• Develops policies, procedures, guidelines; and monitors compliance.
• Plans, develops, and approves schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving goals; and directs evaluation activities.
• Represents the agency at business meetings, hearings, trials, legislative sessions, conferences, and seminars or on boards, panels, and committees.
• Reviews and approves management, productivity, and financial reports and studies.
• Reviews results of special investigations, internal audits, research studies, forecasts, and modeling exercises to provide direction and guidance.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of long-range and short-term plans.
• Supervises the work of others.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Benefits

• 100% paid health insurance for you, and 50% paid for eligible family members—saving you hundreds every month in out-of-pocket medical costs
• Retirement plans with lifetime monthly payments after five years of state service, plus options to save even more with 401(k) and 457 plans
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave so you can recharge and take care of life outside work (that’s time off you’re actually paid for)
• Optional dental, vision, and life insurance—at rates much lower than most private plans
• Flexible spending accounts for added tax savings on health and dependent care
• Employee discounts on things like gym memberships, electronics, and entertainment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director