What are the responsibilities and job description for the Division Administrator - Family Services position at Forest County Potawatomi Community?
Here’s What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and manage a team of professionals to advance and ensure that proper social programs are provided to the Forest County Potawatomi tribal community.
- Serve as a visionary leader and team builder, who brings together the diverse elements of the staff and community to develop a vision and clear goals for the future growth of the Family Services Division in alignment with the mission, vision and values of the Tribe.
- Prepare, review, interpret, and analyze data that supports the creation and execution of the division master strategic plan, including but not limited to short and long-term goals, employee engagement, budgets and grant funding, key performance indicators, and other measurable outcomes.
- Ensure standard operating procedures are aligned with divisional strategy, FCPC policies and in coordination with other division strategies.
- Develop appropriate financial and programmatic metrics to build accountability, measure results and optimize programs’ impacts.
- Ensure divisional employee effectiveness through recognition, coaching, counseling, skill advancement, performance evaluation, and corrective action. Ensure good leaders become great leaders.
- Ensure all grant funds, contracts and agreements are properly executed.
- Ensure all programing follows all applicable rules, regulations, laws, policies and procedures, licensing, motions, directives and tribal ordinances.
- Serve as a mentor, coach and positive role model for ethical behavior.
- Represent Forest County Potawatomi at appropriate venues as a participant, and often as teacher, presenter, or facilitator.
- Enforce the Forest County Potawatomi preference system in all hiring, training, and decisions such that all FCPC tribal members have first preference. Indians have second preference, spouses of tribal members have third preference, and individuals with Potawatomi ancestry or ties have fourth preference, to promote employees to ensure the future and welfare of the next generations.
- Ensure that qualified Forest County Potawatomi Community members be placed in training positions to manage all tribal departments and enterprises and to facilitate self-reliance and self-governance.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Social Work or related field required; Master’s Degree preferred.
- Three years of supervisory experience required.
- Certified Social Worker and/or Licensed Clinic Social Worker preferred.
- In lieu of the education requirement, FCPC will consider a candidate with seven (7) or more years of leadership experience in related fields specific to each division.
- Must have a valid, clean driver’s license.
- Must successfully pass all applicable background checks and drug screens
- Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off annually
- 3 weeks of paid holidays
- Premium free health insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Short term disability
- Life insurance
- 401k with match