General Community Programs Administrator

at DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Job Requisition ID:  39440

Agency:  Department of Human Services 

Opening Date:  07/17/2024

Closing Date/Time:  08/15/2024

Salary:  Anticipated Salary: $9,000 - $15,000 per month ($108,000 - $180,000 per year) 

Job Type:  Salaried 

County:  Cook 

Number of Vacancies:  1 

Work Hours:  Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 5:00pm - Administration / Leadership

Work Location: 401 S Clinton St, Chicago, Illinois, 60607, Division of Mental Health, General Programs

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Position Overview

The Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire an individual to serve as the Administrator of General Community Programs. Acts authoritatively on policy-making issues impacting agency management and statewide agency operations. Provides direction and guidance to staff to ensure effective implementation of Division of Mental Health (DMH) program, fiscal, and grant management based on Grants Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA) requirements. Develops and maintains relationships with foundations and corporations in order to leverage and maximizes state and federal funding to provide support and enhance delivery of services. Designs, develops, and implements measures to increase federal, foundation, and corporate funding to community mental health service delivery systems, while ensuring for budgeting of administration dollars to support the management of grants.

Job Responsibilities

1. Serves as the Administrator of General Community Programs.
2. Provides direction and guidance to staff to ensure effective implementation of Division of Mental Health (DMH) program, fiscal, and grant management based on Grants Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA) requirements.
3. Identifies federal and state human service funding opportunities and impact of grant funded programs on intellectually disabled communities.
4. Develops and maintains relationships with foundations and corporations in order to leverage and maximizes state and federal funding to provide support and enhance delivery of services.
5. Develops the reporting and analysis of performance measures specific to grants to various audiences, including the governor’s office and the Department’s service delivery partners, to monitor on-going budget performance of grantees and grant appropriations.
6. Serves as full-line supervisor.
7. Maintains awareness of changes to the grant and budget protocols and practices and ensures their implementation.
8. Designs, develops, and implements measures to increase federal, foundation, and corporate funding to community mental health service delivery systems, while ensuring for budgeting of administration dollars to support the management of grants.
9. Supports the development of evaluation designs to ensure the integration of process and outcome findings into program management.
10. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years college with course work in a business or public administration.
2. Requires prior experience equivalent to four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a public or private organization.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Three (3) years of management experience over grant-funded programs for a public or private organization.
2. Master’s degree in a health or human services related field.
3. Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience in managing personnel, assigning work, providing guidance to subordinates, recommending and/or implementing counseling and/or discipline activities and training staff.
4. Three (3) years of professional experience developing, interpreting and ensuring implementation of policies and procedures for a public or private organization.
5. Three (3) years of professional experience writing complex financial and/or budget reports.
6. Three (3) years of professional experience communicating with diverse stakeholders, both orally and in writing, across various forms of media.

Conditions of Employment

1. Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.