About us:

Our mission is to promote positive, lifelong outcoming for Ohio youth through early intervention, quality education, and family support programs.

At DCY, we offer our employees a rewarding work experience in public service helping Ohioans achieve a sustainable lifestyle that includes generous benefit options and a flexible work life balance making our agency a great place to work!

• Low-cost health care benefits with FREE dental and vision after completed eligibility period

• Guaranteed 11 paid holidays each year

• Significant employer paid OPERS contributions

• Employee tuition reimbursement programs

• Wellness incentives for healthcare participants

• And much more !

To learn more about DCY, please visit our website at Department of Children and Youth | Ohio.gov.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Under direction, independently or as part of team, researches, analyzes, formulates/revises, and implements policies, procedures, and/or administrative rules for assigned human services program areas (i.e., child protective services) based upon federal acts where guidelines are non-specific, litigation, task force recommendations, administrative decisions, analysis of legislation, or combination thereof to establish state's minimum standard of practice.

Provides consultative expertise, technical assistance, and training to external entities (e.g., Public Children Services Agencies [PCSAs]; private children services agencies; County Departments of Job and Family Services [CDJFS]; professional and community organizations) in order to ensure uniform application of performance standards and to promote coordinated service delivery; consults with other entities regarding current and/or forthcoming program changes; interprets statutes, policies, and procedures and obtains legal opinions on interpretations; evaluates service delivery; recommends and assists in imposing legal and fiscal sanctions; responds to inquiries from citizens, federal and state legislators, client advocacy agencies, and other interested parties; prepares reports, position papers, and research documents; performs statistical analysis and develops evaluation criteria to evaluate program effectiveness; based on research and statistical analysis, provides recommendations for increasing program effectiveness; designs and prepares training packages for county, regional, and/or statewide training sessions; provides training to other Human Services Developers; coordinates and/or attends special events and forums to promote programs and services that support the program area goals.

Performs other related duties as assigned (e.g., attends and participates in staff meetings; travels to attend meetings, conferences, and trainings; attends special events and public forums to promote Title IV-E program; performs statistical analysis; operates personal computer to produce correspondence, reports, and other documents; prepares reports, position papers, and research documents; maintains logs, records, and files).

Hybrid Work Details

Subject to DCYs teleworking policy and an approved teleworking agreement, this position is eligible to work from a remote location on a hybrid basis. The selected applicant may be required to complete initial trainings prior to being eligible to telework. All requests to telework are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and must be approved by DCY's Deputy Director of Human Resources and management, subject to the conditions outlined in the agency policy and teleworking agreement.

Drug-Free Workplace

The State of Ohio is a drug-free workplace which prohibits the use of marijuana (recreational marijuana/non-medical cannabis). Please note, this position may be subject to additional restrictions pursuant to the State of Ohio Drug-Free Workplace Policy (HR-39), and as outlined in the posting.

Qualifications
Qualifications

The following are the minimum qualifications for this position. For further consideration, applicants must clearly identify how qualifications are met within the education and/or experience sections of the applications.

Completion of graduate course coursework in social or behavioral science, health services public administration, public policy management or comparable field; 24 mos. exp. in researching, developing or implementing policies related to social services, health services, public policy or comparable field; 6 mos. trg. or 6 mos. exp. in use of computer hardware & software used for spreadsheets, statistical analysis, graphics presentation & word processing.

-Or completion of undergraduate core program in social or behavioral science, health services public administration, public policy management or comparable field; 36 mos. exp. in researching, developing or implementing policies related to social services, health services, public policy or comparable field; 12 mos. trg. or 12 mos. exp. in research methodology, measurement & testing, analysis of variance & survey sampling; 6 mos. trg. or 6 mos. exp. in use of computer hardware & software used for spreadsheets, statistical analysis, graphics presentation & word processing.

-Or 2 yrs. exp. as Human Services Developer 1, 69461, with experience commensurate with duties to be assigned per posting of job opportunity (e.g., if assignment is in area of policy development for aid to dependent children, education, training &/or experience must have been in area of aid to dependent children).

-Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications For Employment noted above.