City of Seattle.

  • Seattle, WA


  • $110,393-182,115 annually.

  • Irreversible.

  • Full-time.

Position Description

Are you a transformative servant leader who actively listens to comprehend and puts the neighborhood’s interests? You are confident to concentrate on Black lives. You look for to comprehend neighborhood properties, and you break down barriers so that neighborhoods can grow. You make trust and interact freely and truthfully. If this explains you, this task might be best for you.

The (HSD) is looking for a skilled executive with a shown dedication to leading with racial equity by utilizing their individual and positional authority to resolve institutional bigotry to work as a Deputy Director. Reporting to the Performing Department Director, and as an essential member of the department’s Senior Management Group, this person will bring a dedication to focusing neighborhood in their work. This position will supply management to guarantee the Department has strong public stewardship that supports service shipment, method, and policy. The perfect prospect is an individual who leverages their knowledge and the experience of customers, neighborhood partners, and personnel in collaboration to provide quality human services.

HSD funds and runs services that satisfy the fundamental requirements of the most susceptible individuals in our neighborhood – households and people with low earnings; kids; domestic violence and sexual attack survivors; older grownups; individuals coping with impairments; individuals experiencing homelessness; and Black, Native and Individuals of Color (BIPOC) neighborhoods. HSD’s objective is “to link individuals with resources and options for individuals throughout times of requirement so we can all live, discover, work, and participate in strong, healthy neighborhoods.” Our company believe that neighborhoods must identify how they are best served. HSD lives out its objective, as one of the biggest factors to Seattle’s safeguard and as a direct provider. HSD is accountable for investing more than $170 million in agreements to almost 150 community-based companies and programs that support Seattle next-door neighbors and neighborhoods each year. HSD is arranged into 5 essential divisions/teams consisting of Management and Administration (LAD), Safe and Flourishing Neighborhoods (STC), Youth and Household Empowerment (YFE), Aging and Special Needs Provider (ADS) and homelessness.

Task Obligations

HSD has 2 Deputy Directors who manage programs and this position will be accountable for Aging and Disabilities Provider (ADS) and homelessness-related efforts consisting of the HOPE Group and a little administrative group managing the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) arrangement. The Deputy Director will manage, direct and coordinate department-wide matters as designated; play a vital function encouraging the Department Director on matters referring to ADS, homelessness-related efforts, basic personnel wellness, management advancement, neighborhood positioning, and more. The Deputy Director is anticipated to help executive level management advancement, department-wide positioning, along with establishing programmatic and policy suggestions for application.

Particular deliverables and locations of obligation consist of:

  • Offers direct guidance of the ADS Department Director, HOPE Group Supervisor, and the Regional Homelessness Policy Consultant.
  • Promotes

quality in its service arrangement, financial investments, policy, and advocacy. Makes sure the work of the department is lined up with the function of ADS to establish a neighborhood that promotes lifestyle, self-reliance and option for older individuals and grownups with impairments in King County. Accountable for ADS internal program results and compliance activities, consisting of enhancing service shipment, making sure equity, simplifying reporting, and meaningfully engaging personnel and stakeholders to change the system and enhance results.

  • Supports ADS policymaking by leading the advancement of propositions for aging and specials needs service programs and financial investments. Manages the on-going assessment and evaluation of divisional service lines, provider and agreements in attaining policy goals. Report findings and suggestions to the HSD Director, Mayor’s Workplace, and City board as required.
  • Guarantee positioning with HSD worths and the work of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Responsible for staying mindful, and well-informed about, matters connected to homelessness within both the City and the KCRHA. Team Up with HSD External Affairs, the Mayor’s Workplace and the KCRHA, as required, on interaction associated to homelessness. Take part in yearly budget plan advancement for the KCRHA.
  • Supports the management group in handling divisional work strategies and collaborating functional choices. Supports HSD’s continuous efforts to produce a culture that welcomes responsibility, recovery, collective choice making, takes apart bigotry and provides preferred results with and for the neighborhoods we serve.
  • Supports a constant and constant circulation of interaction concerning our work within the department and with stakeholders motivating a culture of responsibility and empowerment. Seeks to fix issues and produce ingenious concepts through collective team effort. Holds routine conferences with personnel, supervisors, and neighborhood partners for preparation, interaction, and other functions.
  • Develops a finding out environment where personnel are engaged, growing and adding to the work of HSD. Cultivates management and skill through organized expert advancement for personnel.
  • Champions racial equity by seeing our overcome a

, participating in efforts to remove racial variations and accomplish racial equity in the shipment of services, Local government and the wider neighborhood. Assist in racial justice focused procedures that promote capability structure and empowers disenfranchised neighborhoods towards self-determination and impactful options. Speaks reality to power with self-awareness of individual predisposition and the divergent interests and experiences of neighborhood. Collaborates with varied neighborhoods to make sure that the financial, social, and ecological advantages of our work aid develop equity within our neighborhoods.

Credentials

An effective prospect will be a caring, genuine, tactical, ingenious, open, self-aware, and skilled leader with a shown dedication to promoting an environment in which BIPOC and marginalized neighborhoods have the ability to grow, be vested and have the assistance to accomplish favorable results. Their work needs to be focused in racial, social, financial justice, and an understanding of neighborhood security, human or social services and the concerns affecting the neighborhoods we serve. Racial and social justice is intrinsic in their decision-making, they hold an understanding of intersectionality and a dedication to the distinct experiences of systemic oppression and violence, in addition to the specific experiences of making it through the injury related to the violence. They are dedicated to undoing institutionalised bigotry and workout anti-racist arranging concepts and comprehend how bigotry and injustice have actually led to the requirement for the Person Solutions Department.

The perfect prospect has actually led and inspired groups to team up and support each other in the tough work of satisfying the requirements of those we serve. Strategic management, reliable interactions, relationship structure, analytical abilities, strong functional capability, and experience in the general public and/or economic sector will all be needed to efficiently lead and promote for HSD and its work. The prospect needs to have a credibility for working out a high level of tact, profundity, discretion, and diplomacy and have cooperative working relationships with varied groups of individuals.

A competent prospect will have:

  • A work history that shows a dedication to race and social justice.
  • 8 years of significantly accountable expert experience in the locations of public administration, human services, service and/or non-profit sector.
  • A minimum of 4 years of supervisory and program management/administrative experience.
  • Technical proficiency in social work, public health, or public or company administration showed through the accomplishment of a baccalaureate degree.
  • A dedication to structure and cultivating neighborhood relationships, shown neighborhood experience, and can show responsibility to our neighborhood partners.

Education, experience, and training that supplies proof of the capability to carry out the task duties stated in this task statement will be assessed for equivalency to the recognized education and experience credentials. Examples what would be examined consist of: work in a position with comparable duties and scope; service as a influencer or believed leader relating to aging and impairment services or homelessness through publication, public online forums, and/or advocacy; achievement of an academic degree or expert accreditation, work experience beyond the needed 8 years.

Since October 18, 2021, City of Seattle workers are needed to be totally immunized versus COVID-19 If employed, you will be needed to send evidence of vaccination prior to your work start date. Individuals are thought about totally immunized 2 weeks after their 2nd dosage in a two-dose series or more weeks after a single-dose vaccine. Workers might make ask for a sensible lodging based upon a medical impairment or for all the best held faiths. Philosophical, political, clinical, or sociological objections to vaccination will not be thought about for an exemption or lodging.

Please note this task ad is not developed to cover or consist of a detailed listing of activities, responsibilities or obligations that are needed of the worker for this task. Tasks, obligations, and activities might alter at any time with or without notification.

Extra Details

To be considered you need to consist of a resume and cover letter with your application. We motivate you to utilize your cover letter to go over why you wish to do this work and how you satisfy the credentials for the position. Your resume ought to sum up the skill, experience, understanding, and abilities you give this work.

This full-time position is categorized as a position is categorized as an Executive 2 in the City payroll system. This position is not covered by the Civil Service System. This function might be needed to work nights, nights, weekends; or go to conferences at places beyond the workplace. A lot of work is carried out in a regular City work/office environment.

If you have concerns, please contact Pam Inch, Elder Executive Employer at.

Who might use: This position is open to all certified prospects that satisfy the above credentials. The City of Seattle worths varied viewpoints and life experiences. Candidates will be thought about despite race, color, creed, nationwide origin, origins, sex, marital status, special needs, spiritual or political association, age, sexual preference, or gender identity. The City motivates individuals of all backgrounds to use, consisting of individuals of color, immigrants, refugees, ladies, LGBTQ, individuals with impairments, veterans, and those with varied life experience.

Due to the fiduciary nature of the work, task deals are contingent on a background examination that includes evaluation of criminal history along with confirmation of info supplied by the candidate as part of the application procedure. In compliance with Seattle’s Sporting chance Work Regulation, SMC 14.17 candidates will be supplied a chance to describe or remedy background details.

The City of Seattle uses a thorough advantages plan consisting of trip, vacation and authorized leave along with medical, oral, vision, life and long-lasting impairment insurance coverage for workers and their dependents.

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