DHS PROGRAM DIRECTOR 3 - 69467

Executive Service

This is a hybrid position

For more information, visit the link below:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/human-services/documents/HRC0014549_DHS_Prog_Dir3_AsstDir_Davidson_72825.pdf

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

DHS MISSION: ABOUT POSITION Strengthen Tennessee by Strengthening Tennesseans DHS VISION: To revolutionize the customer experience by growing capacity to reduce dependency. DHS VALUES: High Performance Collaboration Continuous Improvement A Shared Vision Customer-Centered Solutions

How you make a difference in this role:

The Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS), Division of Rehabilitation Services is seeking a dedicated visionary and dynamic leader to serve as an Assistant Director in the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program overseeing Transition and Youth Employment Services. This role is dedicated to leading the efforts of removing barriers to employment for students and youth with disabilities to achieve their career goals. The Assistant VR Director of Transition and Youth Employment Services is an essential leader within the VR program. This position assists the VR program in fulfilling the purpose of providing employment-focused services for individuals with disabilities consistent with their strengths, priorities, and resources with the ultimate goal of competitive, integrated employment through a customer centered approach.

Job Overview:

Under the general supervision of the VR Director, the Assistant VR Director of Transition and Youth Employment Services serves as the statewide leader providing strategic vision, public education, and programmatic oversight to ensure students and youth with disabilities receive the valuable services offered through the VR program. The Assistant VR Director of Transition and Youth Employment is responsible for leading the departments transition programs for students with disabilities to promote the successful transition to life after high school resulting in competitive integrated employment outcomes. The Assistant VR Director of Transition and Youth Employment serves as the principal liaison with the Department of Education and facilitates collaboration with the local education agencies across the state. This includes implementing processes to ensure high quality transition and youth employment services are delivered to students with disabilities across the state. The Assistant VR Director of Transition and Youth Employment serves as the principal liaison with the Department of Education and facilitates collaboration with the local education agencies across the state. This includes implementing processes to ensure high quality transition and youth employment services are delivered to students with disabilities across the state.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Serves as the subject matter expert for all aspects of transition and youth employment services statewide.
2. Leads, guides, and directs the transition and youth employment services team to ensure innovative service delivery opportunities exist for students with disabilities that lead to competitive integrated employment outcomes.
3. Evaluates and oversees the organization, structure, and staffing of the transition and youth employment services team to achieve VR program goals including meeting the needs of students with disabilities, the local school systems, and compliance with the requirements of Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) in collaboration with the quality assurance team.
4. Establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships with state education and workforce partners including the Department of Education, Economic and Community Development (ECD), and Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DLWD).
5. Oversee the various contracts with providers of services that involve transition and youth employment services. Establish, maintain, and strengthen relationships with state education and workforce partners including the Department of Education, Economic and Community Development (ECD), and Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DLWD).
6. Oversee the various contracts with providers of services that involve transition and youth employment services.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and seven years of full-time professional work in one of the following:

social/human services, education, and/or social services grant coordination.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Graduation from an accredited college or university with a masters degree in education, rehabilitation counseling, social services, human services, or a related field.
2. 3 years supervisory experience including experience in leadership practices that values and rewards inclusion, teamwork, collaboration, innovation, and performance excellence.
3. Prior experience and demonstrated ability to analyze and manage large budgets, contracts, and provider agreements in accordance with federal and state regulations and program requirements.
4. Experience communicating and presenting information to large groups, including stakeholders, community partners and customers.
5. Flexible work style, ability to handle the pace of the environment with unexpected changes.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.