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Economic Stability Consultant
Salary
$4,470.00 – $8,044.00 Monthly
Location
Baton Rouge, LA
Job Type
Classified
Job Number
183280ESCon91323SS
Department
DCFS-Department of Children and Family Services
Opening Date
09/13/2023
Closing Date
9/20/2023 11:59 PM Central
- Description
- Benefits
- Questions
Supplemental Information
Department MISSION
DCFS is working to keep children safe, helping individuals and families become self-sufficient, and providing safe refuge during disasters.
Department VISION
We care for the well-being and safety of Louisiana’s people.
Department VALUES
Treating all people with dignity, compassion and respect, while providing services with integrity.
This position is the Baton Rouge Regional Consultant position. The following offices are housed in this region and would require some in-person visits to these offices: EBR Parish, Iberville Parish, and East Feliciana Parish .
This position may be filled as a probational appointment or a job appointment that may last up to 48 months. Job appointments may convert to probational appointments. Also, it may be filled as a detail and promoted within 12 months.
You must include all relevant education and experience on your official State application.
Resumes cannot be submitted in lieu of completing an application.
The duties that you describe in the Work Experience section of your application will be reviewed by State Civil Service as part of the process in determining if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job.
Your experience WILL NOT be evaluated based on the job title alone. You must describe your actual duties. If you are a current employee of the State of Louisiana it is important that you indicate in the “Duties” section for each job the specific programs that you worked in to receive credit for that experience.
List all prior employment. Work experience left off of your electronic application or only included in an attached resume will not be credited. Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Applicants qualifying based on college training or receipt of a baccalaureate degree will be required to submit an official college transcript to verify credentials claimed prior to appointment. Please make every effort to attach a copy of your transcript to your application. The transcripts can be added as an attachment to your online application. The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
DCFS is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” and Louisiana is a “State as a Model Employer for People with Disabilities”
For additional information about this vacancy, please contact Allison Rigsby via email at [email protected]
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A baccalaureate degree plus three years of professional level economic stability social services experience.
Substitutions
Six years of full-time work experience in any field may be substituted for the required baccalaureate degree.
Candidates without a baccalaureate degree may combine work experience and college credit to substitute for the baccalaureate degree as follows:
A maximum of 120 semester hours may be combined with experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.
30 to 59 semester hours credit will substitute for one year of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.
60 to 89 semester hours credit will substitute for two years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.
90 to 119 semester hours credit will substitute for three years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.
120 or more semester hours credit will substitute for four years of experience towards the baccalaureate degree.
College credit earned without obtaining a baccalaureate degree may be substituted for a maximum of four years full-time work experience towards the baccalaureate degree. Candidates with 120 or more semester hours of credit, but without a degree, must also have at least two years of full-time work experience to substitute for the baccalaureate degree.
Graduate training with eighteen semester hours in one or any combination of the following fields will substitute for a maximum of one year of the required experience on the basis of thirty semester hours for one year of experience: counseling; social work; psychology; economics; business, public, or health administration.
A master’s degree in the above fields will substitute for one year of the required experience.
A Juris Doctorate will substitute for one year of the required experience.
Graduate training with less than a Ph.D. will substitute for a maximum of one year of the required experience.
A Ph.D. in the above fields will substitute for two years of the required experience.
Specialized degrees will substitute for a maximum of two years of the required experience.
Note
Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.
Note
An applicant may be required to possess a valid Louisiana driver’s license at time of appointment.
Job Concepts
Function Of Work
To provide advanced professional support services for social services programs designed to assist families with food, cash, or child care.
Level Of Work
Advanced.
Supervision Received
Broad from an Economic Stability Manager 1 or other higher level personnel.
Supervision Exercised
May provide direct or functional supervision over Economic Stability Specialists.
LOCATION OF WORK:
Department of Children and Family Services.
Job Distinctions
Differs from Economic Stability Specialist by the presence of lead worker responsibility and/or duties involving a higher level of complexity.
Differs from Economic Stability Manager 1 by the absence of managerial responsibility for an assigned program area.
See allocation criteria memo.
Examples of Work
Coordinates major program operations of field offices in a region by reviewing case records and/or procedures in local offices to assure that program benefits are accurately determined.
Prepares exit conferences, written reports and confirmations.
Sets up standards of operation, checks progress, and sees that policies are carried out.
Conducts ongoing administrative programmatic reviews of field offices to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
Recommends and directs plans to correct deficiencies regarding overall efficiency measures; conducts regional corrective action committee meetings and directs implementation of corrective action measures.
Provides program information through guest speeches, interviews for news media and other public appearances.
Investigates requests from politicians, community officials and social agencies about client problems in the region.
Coordinates services and negotiates agreements with doctors, lawyers, administrators of government and private agencies.
Conducts studies, compiles reports, analyzes statistical data, and completes projects as requested by agency management.
Researches and responds to program policy requests from parish offices by providing clarification and interpretation of policy.
May serve as a lead worker over Economic Stability Specialists.
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a State Employee, You Will Earn Competitive Pay, Choose From a Variety Of Benefits, And Have Access To a Great Professional Development Program
Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/
Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
- Mardi Gras,
- Good Friday,
- Memorial Day,
- Independence Day,
- Labor Day,
- Veteran’s Day,
- Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
- Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
State Retirement Systems May Include (but Are Not Limited To)
Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries.
- Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your_Retirement_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system
- Teacher’s Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),
- Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others
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Are you a current DCFS employee?
- Yes
- No
Required Question
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State of Louisiana
Address
For agency contact information, please refer to
the supplemental information above.
Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802
Phone
(866) 783-5462
Website
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm
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