SOCIAL SERVICE COMMUNITY PLANNER
Essential Functions
- Serves as Contract Support Staff
- Audits, reviews, monitors, and completes monitoring and service level data reports regarding day care clients and providers and associated billing
- Serves as a resource for Department and private agency staff, day care providers, clients, and foster parents regarding day care policies, procedures, and payment regulations
- Maintains complex information systems of monitoring and service delivery data and develops various reports as assigned, performing all related functions in a timely manner
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of high school
- Requires two years of experience in a community serviced by a demonstration project or a similar community experience
About the Agency
DCFS is deeply committed to the welfare and protection of children. Our goal is to protect children by strengthening and supporting families. In every effort, from receiving hotline calls to reaching family reunification or foster care and adoption, children and families are our focus.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires ability to pass a background check
- Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties
- Requires appropriate, valid driver's license
Pay
Anticipated Starting Salary (as of 7/1/26): $4,568/month. Full Range: $4,568-$6,133/month
Schedule
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
Benefits
Includes the following:
A Pension Program
Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP)