State of Indiana
Location
Jeffersonville, IN | United States
Job description
Grow your career with the State of Indiana! With more than 50 executive branch agencies, the State of Indiana is a diverse workforce offering employees stimulating and challenging projects across a broad scope of career opportunities. As a State of Indiana employee, you impact the well-being of Indiana’s communities every day.
At the State of Indiana, we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion - Our goal is to create a welcoming, accessible, and equitable workplace, with a workforce that is representative of the State of Indiana population. As a proud equal opportunity employer, reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process, as well as perform the essential functions of a role.
Next Level benefits at the State of Indiana are here! Be sure to review our expanded benefit package offerings below.
About the Department of Child Services:
Join a team that engages with families and children to improve lives in meaningful and significant ways. DCS engages authentically with children who are victims of abuse or neglect and strengthens families through services that focus on family support and preservation. The Department also administers family preservation and prevention services, foster care, and child support throughout the State of Indiana. You will relentlessly pursue permanency for children and families through reunification, guardianship, adoption or support youth in making a successful transition to adulthood. While this job is difficult and may have long and sometimes unconventional hours, this is more than a job—it is a calling to improve your community and neighbors. Will you join us in supporting our Mission, Vision, and Values?
Mission: The Indiana Department of Child Services leads the state’s response to allegations of child abuse and neglect and facilitates child support payments. We consider the needs and values of all we serve in our efforts to protect children while keeping families together whenever possible.
Vision: Children will live in safe, healthy and supportive families and communities.
Values: We at the Indiana Department of Child Services empower our team, in collaboration with state and local partners, to make decisions in the best interest of every child in our care by embracing:
• Child Safety
• Permanency
• Collaborative partnerships with foster and adoptive families
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• A culture of safety and transparency
• A commitment to continuous improvement
Salary:
This position traditionally starts at an annual salary of $85,020. Salary for this position may be commensurate with education and job experience.
Role Overview:
The Deputy Chief Counsel will assist the Chief Counsel in both the everyday legal case management of the region, as well as all managerial and administrative responsibilities that fall to the legal managers. The Deputy would be responsible for the supervision and management of the legal clerical staff in the region. The Deputy would be responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and training all new clerical staff. The Deputy would be responsible for providing case coverage until county vacancies can be filled and would be expected to carry a case load. The Deputy would provide direct training to all new clerical staff and indirect training to the new staff attorneys, including first and second-chairing fact-findings, modeling effective representation, modeling answering client inquiries, training staff attorneys on DCS's databases. The Deputy would assist the Chief in relaying information to the Region, fielding client inquiries from across the Region, addressing personnel issues on the legal team and conflict between social and legal, monitoring employee performance, and tracking permanency data.
The essential functions of this role are as follows:
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
Working Requirements:
Education:
The ideal candidate in this role should minimally have
Related certifications and coursework may be considered for education or experience.
This role may provide direct supervision for one or more staff members.
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time employees which includes:
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruit, select, develop, and promote employees based on individual ability and job performance. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of employer-employee relations without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, or veteran status. We will comply with the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable state and federal laws.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at [email protected].
The State of Indiana has established a culture that welcomes equity, inclusion, and opportunity for all employees and applicants. We encourage you to apply if you feel you have the transferrable skills to be successful in this position and we look forward to reviewing your application.
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