Program Assistant – Jobs in sioux falls sd

Job Type: Program Assistant from home
Location: South Dakota work from home
Company: Children’s Home Society

Job Description:

You will really Work for Good every day as a member of Children’s Home Society, changing the world one day, one child, one lady, one family, one smile, hug, and heart at a time.

An Assistant Program Supervisor is now needed to oversee the operations of a group of direct care staff members at Children’s Home Shelter for Family Safety, a program of Children’s Home Society located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

What You Will Do

• Client Relations: Make sure clients have their safety, emotional, and physical needs satisfied. As needed, approve, deny, or end adult and child shelter stays. For both adult and child abuse victims, offer case management and direct crisis assistance.
• Team Management: Take part in suggestions for staff members to be hired and fired. Organize daily shift tasks, such as staffing children in care, finishing meal counts, giving medication to children in placement, and arranging transportations. Assign and oversee the case loads of the employees. Help to schedule needs and make sure shifts are covered. Call daily meetings for shift changes. Set goals for performance, track it, and give allocated staff performance reviews.
• Outreach Services: Send out the right referrals. Speaking with DSS, placing agencies, and community partners, coordinate and communicate.
• Data Management: Fill out all required paperwork and documents. Review client files often, and follow up with staff members if you have any issues. Organise client files and documents.
• Program Management: Verify adherence to all necessary regulatory requirements and Agency policy. Make that safe childcare procedures are followed. Help to maintain the shelter tidy and orderly. As designated, serve in the rotation of on-call.
• Professional Growth: Show up for meetings as needed. Finished the yearly training that is necessary. Keep up necessary credentials and proficiency.
• Help train volunteers, interns, and both new and current staff members. Call and lead team meetings.
• Safety, Policies and Procedures: Verify that infection control policies and safety standards are followed.

All the Things About You That We Will Love

• Subordinate Relationships/Leadership: Ability to successfully guide and assist direct reports in reaching desired outcomes and in realistically and positively advancing their professional objectives is a must. Helps define performance standards. Shares the vision and philosophy of the Agency.
• Independent Self-Direction: Need to be able to carry out job duties under frequently stressful circumstances and with little or no supervision. Evaluates requirements and priorities, then gives others instructions in line with them. Guides and leads, makes wise judgments, suggests policies and practices.
• Client/Public Interactions: Ability to give each client polite, individual attention is necessary to advance both the Agency’s reputation and public perception. In situations involving strong emotions, reacts maturely, delicately, and efficiently.
• Communication Techniques: Need to grasp the requirements of children and be able to convey key ideas. Pays close attention to intricate problems to be able to react well.
• Professional/Ethical Conduct – Must be able to act in a way that encourages professionalism and cooperation throughout the Agency, leading by example. Being in charge of extremely sensitive and private information calls for unequaled professionalism and ethics.
• Problem-Solving and/or Conflict Resolution – Examines and creates prompt, definitive answers to a range of increasingly difficult problems. Must handle personnel problems and conflicts in a way that preserves a productive work environment and avoids legal responsibility when there is little or no precedent.