Prevention Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the prevention team, providing overall direction, prioritization, coordination, and quality oversight for the prevention culture and system-wide enhancement initiatives.

• Act as the main liaison with the PCAN team and coordinate prevention activities alongside PCAN response functions.

• Establish and manage a structured quality planning and continuous improvement cycle utilizing incident data, monitoring, audits, provider performance, risk assessments, and other qualitative and quantitative metrics.

• Direct system-wide evaluations of provider protocols, practices, workforce dynamics, culture, and safety climate.

• Develop methodologies and frameworks to assess prevention culture and safety across approximately 150 care provider programs.

• Analyze findings to pinpoint recurring risks, emerging trends, systemic issues, and intervention priorities.

• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations for ORR regarding prevention strategies, provider expectations, tools, training, technical assistance, monitoring, and system enhancements.

• Oversee the conversion of PSA, clinical, and child-safety requirements into observable provider practices and role-specific expectations.

• Guide the development of prevention frameworks, implementation strategies, tools, templates, checklists, monitoring instruments, and reporting mechanisms.

• Lead the execution of strategies within provider workflows, supervisory structures, workforce practices, and operational processes.

• Provide strategic guidance for system-wide training and communication efforts.

• Coordinate activities among ORR offices, stakeholders, provider organizations, and subject matter experts.

• Integrate specialized clinical and subject matter expert input into analysis and recommendations.

• Review and approve analyses, recommendations, tools, guidance, reports, briefings, and other deliverables.

• Establish performance metrics for implementation, corrective actions, provider advancement, and intervention effectiveness.

• Brief ORR leadership on findings, risks, progress, and recommended actions.

• Mentor and supervise Prevention Specialists while distributing four Specialist FTEs across Task 2 priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience working with child welfare populations, including in congregate care settings, to enhance quality and safety.

• Master’s degree in social work or a related field (a bachelor’s degree combined with 10 years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a master’s degree).

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working with immigrant children and families.

• Must be able to obtain and retain a Public Trust Clearance.

• Knowledge of migrant/refugee issues, especially as they pertain to children.

• Experience in a refugee program is preferred.

• Previous work experience in a consulting environment.

• Ability to foster and contribute to an equitable and inclusive organizational culture and environment.

• Strong team player with a proven capability to manage competing priorities, perspectives, and stakeholder needs.

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated high level of professionalism, including the ability to exercise sound judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefit offerings referenced under the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.