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Metropolitan Family Services empowers families to learn, to earn, to heal, to thrive. Part mentor, part motivator, part advocate, since 1857, Metropolitan Family Services (MFS) has been the engine of change that empowers families to reach their greatest potential and positively impact their communities. Metropolitan is Illinois’ first comprehensive human services agency and reaches more than 117,000 individuals and families in Chicago, Evanston/Skokie, the southwest suburbs and DuPage County with services promoting education, economic stability, emotional wellness and empowerment.
We are now hiring for a full-time Program Manager to join our Team at DuPage!
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Actively participates on the site leadership team. Including the development of community plans and a wide variety of center-wide decision making.
• Takes leadership in working with community agencies, organizations, and institutions as appropriate to carry out program goals.
• Manages all aspects of own assigned programs.
• Responsible for maintaining quality and quantity of services and keeps abreast of client service needs, and participates in planning for them.
• Supervises and provides consultation to assigned Program Supervisors and Senior Program Supervisors in multiple programs and/or locations around their programs.
• Responsible for all personnel matters within own programs, including hiring, assigning, and terminating of staff. Fosters leadership potential of program staff.
• Responsible for the writing of program, annual, and long-range plans.
• Recommends, develops, and monitors program budgets.
• Monitors program to assure programmatic reporting and fiscal compliance of contracts, annual, and long-range plans.
• Writes public grants as requested.
• Provides programmatic input in fundraising strategies.
• Assures and takes leadership in appropriate integration of multi-service, multi-disciplinary, and/or agency-wide systems approach to program.
• Acts as the local liaison to funders as appropriate.
• Develops and maintains contacts with community groups relating to program needs.
• Works effectively with diverse staff and service population.

• *QUALIFICATIONS:

• Seven years post-masters experience in social services with increasing levels of administrative and supervisory responsibility required.
• License as required by agency and governmental bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to work in teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a complex environment.
• Mobility for travel.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• MFS staff are required to provide proof of vaccination or have an approved Medical exemption prior to starting employment. If an approved Medical exemption is obtained, weekly testing is required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is required to sit and stand for sustained periods of time, frequently talk, hear, use hands and fingers to feel, handle and operate objects or controls, and occasionally stand, bend, stretch, stoop, kneel and crouch.
• The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing and viewing a computer terminal.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

SALARY:

• Compensation is commensurate with years of related experience, position requirements, and candidate qualifications. The average salary for the position is $75,000.

Metropolitan Family Services offers a very generous benefits packet to our professionals:

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medical Coverage: HMO, Traditional PPO, or PPO w/ HSA contributions.
• Dental and Vision Insurance Options
• 12 paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401K Plan
• Training and Professional Development Plan with E- Learning
• Wellness Initiative Program
• Employee Assistance Network

Qualifications

Licenses & Certifications

Required
Lic Clinical Social Work

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 per year

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