Director - Child Family Services

Are you ready to lead with purpose, serve with integrity, and create lasting change for the children and families in our community?

Are you ready to lead with purpose, serve with integrity, and create lasting change for the children and families in our community?

Pima County Juvenile Court is on the lookout for a strategic, compassionate, and visionary leader to take on the role of Director of Court, Children, and Family Services. This position is more than just a leadership role; it's an incredible opportunity to improve court processes, drive innovation, and ensure justice for our most vulnerable populations.

In this role, you will help shape programs that protect children, rehabilitate youth, and safeguard our community, all while honoring our core values of compassion, collaboration, accountability, and proactive service. This position is crucial in advancing the Court’s mission to protect children, rehabilitate youth, and promote public safety through timely, impartial justice and innovative services.

The division's overarching goal is to support and enhance Juvenile Court processes that ensure safety, permanence, timeliness, and due process for children and families. Each team within the division contributes to this goal through a shared commitment to improving systems, ensuring quality services to our court customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to work towards meaningful system change, engage with diverse members of the community, and contribute to a future where hope is instilled and positive change is possible for every child and family we serve.

If you are ready to lead transformative initiatives, work across systems, and be a beacon of integrity and impact, we invite you to join us.

This position will remain open until filled. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the posting may close without notice once a candidate is selected. To ensure full consideration, please submit your application by October 19, 2026, at 11:59 PM. Applications received after this date may be reviewed at the discretion of the hiring authority.

$96,200.00 - $

Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

Once a candidate formally accepts a job offer with Superior Court, Juvenile Court, or Justice Court, all other active applications they may have submitted for different roles within these courts will be inactivated. This ensures clarity in our hiring process and allows us to focus on onboarding and supporting the candidate in their new role.

We appreciate your interest in joining our team.

Plans, directs, manages, and evaluates all programs, services, and operations of the Court, Children, and Family Services Division and other assigned initiatives in the achievement of Pima County Juvenile Court's mission, vision, and values.

This is classified position that reports to the Deputy Administrator, Juvenile Court. This position performs duties under minimal supervision and has a staff of supervisory, professional administrative, technical, and administrative/clerical level employees.

Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Business, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or closely related field and five years of progressive, professional administrative, executive or management work experience, including two years of supervisory and/or management experience.; OR any equivalent combination of experience, training and/or education approved by Human Resources.

• Leads and directs the development, implementation, and administration of the goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards for the Court, Children, and Family Services Division (Division).
• Leads and directs the management, implementation, and evaluation of assigned programs, services, and operations of the Division to meet the requirements of all governing federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Develops and directs a leadership team capable of effectively achieving departmental goals and objectives.
• Directs Division operations and programs and ensures full compliance with all applicable laws and directives.
• Leads the…