Managing Director, Child & Family Services

Managing Director, Child & Family Services

• Job Category
  :
  Non-Field Office
• Requisition Number
  : MANAG
  002067
• Full-Time
• On-site

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Casey Family Programs, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is the nation’s largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building Communities of Hope for children and families across America. Founded in 1966, Casey Family Programs works in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, two territories, and tribal nations to influence long-lasting improvements to the safety and success of children, families and the communities where they live.

Casey Family Programs values diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, anti-discrimination, and respect for individuals in the workplace. We encourage candidates with diverse lived experience and perspectives to apply.

Child and Family Services (CFS) of Casey Family Programs provides direct services and tribal consultation in pursuit of Casey’s mission to provide, improve, and – ultimately prevent the need for – foster care. CFS operates nine field offices in five states and an Indian Child and Family Well-being Program office that demonstrate direct service and ICW improvement models. We share our experiences and lessons learned with jurisdictions, tribes, providers, and communities in the spirit of mutual continuous learning.

Our work is community and family centered, relationship-based, participatory, and culturally responsive. We recognize the dignity and strength of every individual, family, community and culture.

Job Summary:

The Managing Director, Child and Family Services (CFS) reports to the Executive Vice President (EVP) and provides strategic and operational leadership for Casey’s direct services field offices across multiple states. Direct services field offices serve youth and families involved in the child welfare system and use that experience to demonstrate and spread strategies that improve child safety and well-being and strengthen families in partnership with state, local and Tribal child welfare systems, courts and community partners.

For children served by Casey, we seek to:
Keep them connected with extended family, kin and other trusted caregivers while in foster care. Improve their well-being outcomes, especially in education, employment and mental health. Ensure every child leaves foster care with a safe, supportive and permanent family through reunification with parents, kinship caregivers, guardianship or adoption.

The Managing Director is accountable for direct services operations, community engagement, and local systems improvement efforts, and directly supervises Senior Directors who oversee field offices and provide strategic consulting, in partnership with Casey’s System Improvement team. As a member of Casey’s Operating Committee and CFS Senior Leadership Team, the Managing Director advances policy and practice excellence, strengthens partnerships with communities, jurisdictions, and constituents, and ensures operations align with Casey Family Programs’ mission, values, and transformation efforts to Building Communities of Hope.

The role also helps drive achievement of the organizational objectives and outcomes related to prevention of entry into foster care, safe reduction of children and youth in foster care, permanency, and child and family well-being.

• Provides strategic leadership, vision, and direction for all aspects of CFS direct services, including staff development, service delivery, practice improvement, resource allocation, budget oversight, facilities, and crisis and risk management.
• Directly supervises Field Office Senior Directors to align workforce and other resources with CFS direct practice and organizational priorities.
• Oversee the implementation of effective practice and quality assurance standards, through supervision of Senior Directors and program reviews. Ensures field offices adhere to policies and procedures and that staff receive appropriate training, coaching, feedback, and performance evaluations to support growth and leadership development.
• Manages staffing and resource allocation across field office operations and serves as a…