County Children, Youth, and Families Program Specialist 2 (Local Government)

About the Role

If you are a strategic, detail-oriented leader committed to strengthening child safety and improving system performance, join us in driving high-impact quality assurance efforts and shaping safer outcomes for children across Allegheny County. Your expertise can help transform practice, elevate standards, and make a meaningful difference in our community. This role supports a team that examines child safety concerns and evaluates key practices to strengthen overall system performance.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead staff through daily supervision, workload planning, skill development, and performance evaluation
• Case Analysis Oversight: Guide assessments of child fatalities and near-fatalities to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Safety Review Coordination: Manage real-time assessments of high-risk cases to determine urgent safety needs and alignment with standards
• Risk Communication: Share safety concerns with leadership by outlining risks, recommended actions, and timelines
• Documentation Quality: Maintain clear review materials by writing, evaluating, and refining summaries and reports
• Systemwide Insights: Identify trends and risks across review activities to strengthen practice, policy, and resource planning

Qualifications

Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:

• One year as a Children, Youth and Families Program Specialist 1; or
• Three years of professional level experience in the field of children, youth and families; and a bachelor's degree; or
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training.

Other Requirements:

• You must meet the PA residency requirement.
• Hiring preference for this vacancy may be given to candidates who live within Allegheny County.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Schedule

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 60-minute lunch
• Scheduled hours can vary depending on the needs of the regional offices

You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, up to two days per week after six months of employment. To telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Pittsburgh. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time.