You are required to work at your assigned work location during your scheduled work times. The purpose of this position is the highest-level Appointing Authority responsible for the administration and management of all services/programs, finance and personnel for anindividual secure residential youth center and is responsible for ensuring compliance with statute, regulations, Children's Code, and CDHS and Division policy. The Youth Center Director must oversee, develop, implement, and monitor goals and other measurement systems as necessary or required. This position implements and ensures continued advancement of the Divisions' Strategic Plan, DYS Behavioral Management Program and the DYS Treatment Model. The position reports necessary and required information regarding the status and/or progress of the youth services center. Ensures the implementationof DYS initiatives and that programming adheres to the principles of evidence-based practice within a trauma responsive environment. The position provides direct supervision of other leadership positions within the youth center including the Assistant Director position(s), and Program Assistant series staff, School Principal(s), a Clinical Director and contracted behavioral health services. This position identifies, manages, and participates directly in leadership and management efforts aimed at improving youth center operations. Participation in and leading Division wide planning efforts is required. Required is the participation in the DYS Youth Center Director's Group (YCDG) and DYS Senior Leadership Group teams. The Youth Center Director is the 2nd level supervision to all remaining employees at the youth center and serves as liaison to the Division of Facilities Management.
Job duties include supervision of direct reports, Assistant Director(s) and administrative staff as well as all other agencies staff indirectly. Serve as appointing authority for youth center. Set performance standards, conduct performance planning and appraisal of staff, ensure staff professional development needs are met. Initiate and conclude necessary corrective or disciplinary actions. Assure direct and indirect supervisory employees are performing supervision functions with their subordinates consistent with State, Department, Division, and youth center expectations. Monitor and approve formal leave for staff and provide for formal and regular interval evaluations of direct report staff and ensure that all other subordinate staff are subject to the same. Make recommendations for promotions. Apply criteria to approve, evaluate and determine appropriate use of personnel resources pursuant to the Colorado Code of Regulations, Department and Division Policy. The position must also work with the CDHS Civil Rights Office, the Child Protection Ombudsman, and the DYS View it, Voice it program related to employee investigations or complaints.
Programming includes providing programmatic planning, coordinating, monitoring, evaluation, and oversight to all youth center functions. Responsible for Quality Control and continuous quality improvement for the entire youth center. Provides internal oversight and respond to external auditing and review of youth center programs and processes. Ensures gender specific programming in a trauma informed environment. Ensures programming for youth adheres to evidence-based practice and trauma responsive environments. Ensures that programs meet salient needs of youth including varied recreation, religious interests, and other developmental needs. Provides for social skill development. Ensures programming provides for safe and secure environments for all youth. Provides for sound educational programming that is age appropriate and consistent with the Colorado Department of Education requirements. Provides for medical evaluation, support, or treatment to youth in custody appropriate with their legal status and needs. Provides for adequate and continuing opportunities for youth visitation and family engagement. Provides for clinical treatment services for youth who are committed to DYS custody. Such treatment services, where provided, must meet prevailing standards of care and be individualized for youth. Monitors and oversees all security and treatment functions, including those related to post-assessment youth, regression committed youth and detained youth. Maintain effective working relationships and communication with Judicial District representatives, School District Officials, Contract Providers, Law Enforcement, DYS Client Managers, and Regional Program Managers as needed to facilitate effective bed management in the youth center and transition to the community. Maintains required staffing levels through recruitment, selection, training, scheduling, and retention and according to prevailing standards or ratios.
Finance includes developing annual youth center budget based upon assessment of youth center needs and consistent with State, Department, and Division guidelines. Approves and monitor expenditures to assure spending is consistent with budget. Assures appropriate use of resources to best address multiple needs of the youth center. Create partnerships as needed to forward agency interests (e.g. DFM, SB-94). Oversees planning efforts and prioritize expenditures. Monitor according to internal standard revenues and expenditures from the Trust Fund for youth. Plan for supplemental year-end allocations to meet agency needs. Track and administer any recognition or reward monies permissible from personal services funds. Ensure that expenditures are consistent with initial allocation to either personnel or programmatic operating funds. Acts as a signing authority for agency for P Card and checkbooks as necessary or required. Approves or plan for movement of allocation among specific object codes without jeopardizing or violating any encumbrance or contractual agreement. Stay within allocation in personal services funds monitoring vacancy savings, overtime use and holiday accruals. Ensures planning and expenditure of any PREA fund allocation to reduce chances of sexually motivated incidents.
Safety and Security includes ensuring youth center and personnel provide safe and secure custody for all youth. Inspect and modify or improve architecture or processes to ensure the safety and security of youth including physical, social, psychological, and moral safety. Improve youth center operations by planning for additional or new/improved equipment or processes to assist with safe and secure custody. Provides for oversight and quality control of processes such as youth movement or staffing schedules or distributions in the shift. Oversees unit and room assignments and group composition to assist with safe and secure operations. Oversees and monitor compliance of the Federally Mandated Prison Rape Elimination Act. Oversees and monitors new staff training to ensure acquisition of DYS Safe Practices. Provides structured programming. Provides for and oversees regulated movement and staff spatial positioning. Provides staff continual training to develop and practice necessary verbal and physical skills. Ensure verbal de-escalation practices are consistently applied. Provide staff with trauma responsive training to increase understanding of youth responses or developmental concerns so that their work to intervene may be made more effective. Apply initiatives that are research based and assist in youth behavior management (e.g. Ml, Sanctuary Institute, VOi... ). Provide for and debrief all incidents for identification of improved/new learning and/or support of good practice.
Personnel includes responsible for comprehensive understanding and use of personnel system. Required to assist recruiting efforts, test or evaluate potential candidates, screen and interview, select appropriate staff to advance agency interests, train to specifications of agency, monitor progress, correct performance and correctly apply personnel rule for employees. Position must work closely within other employee supportive structures and processes to include Family Medical Leave, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability. Position must know and assist employees to use CSEAP as needed. Position must correctly apply resources to staff injured on the job. Position must work collegially in partnership with HR, Timekeeping, Benefits, and the Attorney General's Office. Position must recognize and consult with employees correctly on all elements found in the State Personnel Board Rules. Position must work to ensure that staff are evaluated according to prevailing performance management instruments and standards. Position must ensure compliance of Division of Youth Services policies. Position must model, coach, train, teach, mentor, and guide staff directly and ensure such happens for indirect reports with the intent of advancing agency interests and assist with personal job performance improvement. Position ensures a work environment that supports a trauma responsive environment for staff including comprehensive implementation of Safety Plans, Self-Care Plans, and the Reflective Supervision Model.
Representation includes responsible to represent the agency accurately and professionally in external groups or processes. Responsible for communicating agency interests, needs, outcomes and planning positively and routinely to stakeholders. Position frequently and effectively communicates with their supervisor. Ensures the proper application of statute or regulation regarding the release of information to external parties. Position represents the agency in legal contexts. Position is knowledgeable and monitors, participates and supports external agencies and processes that positively affect DYS or agency interests such as JSPC groups/SB94 screening teams or local mental health centers as examples. Position serves on specific agency boards as requested or required. Participation in department, division, regional and community planning efforts that affect agency or scope of services overseen is required. Provide escorted educational tours through the building to ensure reasonable public access and understanding or our mission and practices. Facilitate media relations consistent with Department policy. Serve as the leader and facilitator of the youth center management group. Prepare agenda items, analyze discussions for program and personnel impact and seek to advance the goals of the agency in the spirit of cooperation. Participate in broader Division work teams and assist in resolving Division issues as they arise. Attend Youth Center Director's meetings, DYS Senior Leadership Group, and other committee meetings as assigned or elected. Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization using any/all available mediums. Document and share learnings and new information with agency staff.
Data and Measurement Systems includes designs, implements, and monitors internal measurement systems to elicit programmatic improvements in safety, security, or general programming. Identifies and corrects deficiencies through a direct or delegated response. Applies process improvement strategies and capture improvements in procedure to legitimize and standardize implemented change. Responds to prevailing data concerns or requests as needed. Employs data to make sound decisions. Develops, implements, tracks, and promulgates goals and measurement systems to all staff and outside stakeholders as necessary. Involves staff in the creation of goals or indicators for the agency.
Other duties as assigned include performing other duties as assigned.
Minimum qualifications include ten (10) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position or a combination of related education and/or