MONITORING & TECH ASSISTANCE ANALYST OPS - 60933825

State of Florida • Tallahassee, FL

8d • $30 • Onsite

About The Position

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning and administration of all publicly funded substance abuse and mental health services, designating Baker Act Receiving facilities, and licensing substance abuse providers.

THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION.  CANDIDATE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE OFFICE. 

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as an OPS Monitoring and Technical Assistance Analyst. This position will collaborate with each section within the program office and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented.

Requirements

• Two years ’experience working in the field of behavioral services.
• One year of experience writing formal business communications, including emails.
• Two years of experience implementing and managing complex projects.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor’s degree from a college or university and four years of professional experience in a behavioral health, public administration, or public health field is preferred.
• Professional experience as described above can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the preferred college education.

Responsibilities

• Providing related technical assistance to Regional and HQ SAMH staff, Managing Entities, as well as relevant stakeholders, professional organizations, and other state agencies, in person.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on the Managing Entity Continuing Oversight Team as specified in Section 287.057(26), if applicable.
• Responsible for the compliance technical assistance and monitoring activities, in person; ensure technical assistance and training is provided related to SAMH programs.
• Responsible for the regional Readiness Monitoring.
• Conduct compliance monitoring of subrecipients by providing input to a monitoring plan that ensures adequate coverage to targeted risk factors, participate in developing the scope of monitoring tools to ensure consistent and accurate methods, or recording monitoring activities and outcomes. Subrecipient monitoring may include desk reviews or thorough onsite monitoring.
• Provide technical assistance in compliance with program requirements.
• Draft, route, and track correspondence.
• Performs other duties as required to meet program and departmental goals and objectives.
• In response to emergency events, the incumbent may be required to work irregular hours, to work more than 8 hours per day, to work extended periods (including weekends and holidays), to work at locations other than their official headquarters, and to perform duties in addition to those outlined in the position description.  Deploy to communities affected by natural disasters within 24-48 hours of impact to represent the organization to promote and implement post-disaster services.
• Assess the impact, needs and assist with the development of a response strategy and goals for the impacted community and implement disaster response plans.
• Coordinate psychological and mental health resources and services for individuals, first responders, and communities impacted by disasters.
• Provide critical information to the Regional Director and Director of Regional Operations and Initiatives.

Benefits

• State Group Insurance coverage options (for OPS employees who are reasonably expected to work 30 hours or more per week on average), including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
• Savings & Spending Accounts;
• 401 (a) FICA Alternative Plan administered through VALIC

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees