About the Role
The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families. This role supports the Division of Child Protection's focus on reducing out-of-home care and improving efficiencies in the placement process, with a specific emphasis on finding kinship resources to achieve permanency for children.
Responsibilities
- Maintains liaison with various stakeholders by obtaining and conveying information and providing feedback to facilitate cooperation and coordination of services.
- Prepares reports by utilizing information obtained from kinship assignments, activity sheets, records or reports, to provide a written record of unit actions, findings, and recommendations.
- Assists supervisor with gathering data from staff to enter in the Kinship Practice Log Spreadsheet.
- Responds to requests for help from staff, by researching files, documents, solutions database, to provide requested information and support. Addresses basic requests and escalates complex requests to the appropriate parties. Logs in all requests and problem resolutions.
- Coordinates the work related to follow-up on incomplete, pending applications and/or referrals, by providing direction, requesting and reviewing additional information, to enhance achievement of community services/ project objectives.
- Assists with other duties to support the CC Kinship Team as needed.
Requirements
- High school graduation or equivalent and three years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to duties described above.
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to the above requirement.
Experience Level
- 3 years of experience in community work or community centered activities
Education Level
- High school graduation or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- USD 44545 - USD 74134
About the Company
- The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports.
- ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare vouchers.
- ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment.
- In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement, and programs for youth in the community.
Equal Opportunity
- The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
