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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure staffing resources are adequate to meet NISTC deliverables. This includes but is not limited to, ensuring hiring search committees are formed and are effective in filling all vacant positions in a timely manner, ensuring CPTA staff effectively coordinate the use of available actors, and that CPTA staff schedule an adequate number of simulation trainings to effectively meet IDCFS’ professional development needs.
• Oversee employment conditions, responsibilities and obligations; work with PI on all personnel matters consistent with the University’s personnel policies and procedures.

• Coordinate with IDCFS, OLPD, university partners, the Children and Family Research Center (CFRC), and with consultants and other researchers to ensure evaluations and quality assurance activities are regularly performed and are utilized to inform programmatic practice, and if needed, programmatic enhancements are implemented.
• Will ensure regular and routine progress and activity reports are composed and submitted to the Statewide Director of Workforce Development and to IDCFS as required.

• Provide oversight and supervision to NISTC Facilitator(s) and Coordinator(s) to ensure smooth and effective supervision of staff, professional development, and adequate staffing coverage for all deliverables.
• Coordinate with staff from the IDCFS Office of Learning and Professional Development (OLPD) to ensure effective delivery and tracking of Child Protection Training Academy (CPTA) training and simulations
• Collaborate with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (IDCFS), university partners, as well as external consultants to ensure the implementation of simulation based training for child welfare and child protection staff.

• Serve as a liaison with external community stakeholder who may have affiliations with the NISTC
• Serve as a liaison with other IDCFS funded initiatives at NIU
• Serve as a representative for NIU and FACS academic programs
• Other duties as assigned including potential teaching of child welfare foundations coursework in Human Development and Family Sciences.

Minimum Required Qualifications (Civil Service)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) (Civil Service)

1. Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects
2. Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
3. Skill in analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
4. Skill in scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
5. Skill in oral and written communication
6. Ability to adjust actions in relation to others’ actions.
7. Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences
8. Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
9. Ability to develop goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work.
10. Ability to work effectively with staff, the public, and outside constituency groups
11. Ability to effectively plan, delegate, and supervise the work of others.
12. Ability to utilize various computer software packages, such as Accounting Software, query, etc.
13. Ability to work independently and exercise judgment in order to be able to analyze and investigate a variety of questions or problems
14. Ability to analyze and develop guidelines, procedures and systems

1. Knowledge of the child and family serving systems
2. Knowledge of child welfare services
3. Ability to effectively communicate on a daily basis.

Specialty Factors (Civil Service)

Preferred Qualifications (Civil Service)

• Administrative experience in Social Services environment
• Child Welfare experience
• Prior experience in program design, implementation of evidence-based interventions, quality improvement, and supervision of staff.
• Prior experience of training students and staff in human service practice
• Familiarity with the IDCFS Core Practice Model and/or familiarity with evidence-based child-welfare practice.

Minimum Required Qualifications (SPS)

Additional Requirements (SPS)

Preferred Qualifications (SPS)

Physical demands/requirements

• Regular office related duties
• Ability to perform sedentary work involving sitting the majority of the time.
• Ability to work for extended periods at computer workstation.
• Occasional lifting and moving items weighing up to 25 lbs.
• May include minimal travel
• Hybrid remote work is possible.
• Availability to work some evenings and weekends.