Director of Children and Families

Our History 
In 1879, Father Bernard Donnelly established Mount St. Bernard’s Orphanage in Kansas City. With that one act of faith, hope and charity, many lives — and a community — were transformed. 

And, from that humble beginning a strong tradition of compassionate care and social service took root, thrived, and grew to become Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph. 

Catholic Charities empowers at risk people to create a pathway out of poverty by alleviating their immediate crises to create stability; then providing robust support to lift them to dignity and self-reliance. 

Today, millions of lives have been transformed, in the communities we serve. We have office locations in the Kansas City metro-area, St. Joseph, Missouri, a Food Pantry in Kansas City Missouri, while serving a 27-county region.  

Our Culture/Mission Characteristics 

While performing job duties, staff will: 

• Follow the Catholic Social Teachings in all aspects while performing job duties. 
• Work collaboratively to achieve goals and resolve conflict to achieve the greater good. 
• Respect the diversity of talents and gifts of others and believe in cultivating those to promote personal and professional development. 
• Demonstrate compassion and commitment for helping others improve their own lives. 
• Adheres to our values of Hope/Faith, Trust, Commitment, Collaboration. 

Mission: Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us. 

Vision: By lifting people in need to the dignity of self-reliance, and encouraging others to help, our communities will become one human family. 

Values: Hope/Faith, Trust, Commitment, Collaboration 

Position Title:Interim Director of Children and Families  
Employment Type: Full-time (38-hour workweek) / Typically M-Th 8:00 am to 5:30 pm / Off Sundays
Exemption Status: Exempt  
Salary: Starts at $67.2K

Position Objective:
To provide leadership and direction to staff in the Children and Family Services program areas, including programming, supervision, developing and maintaining budgets. Institute methods of mission integration, including hiring, training, and evaluating employees, organizational decision making, and adherence to Codes of Ethics. Provide leadership to internal efforts; develop and maintain relationships with external partners. 

Essential Duties: 

• Leadership in the strategy, design and execution of all Children and Family Services activities, including program development, short- and long-term strategic planning for areas of responsibility, budgeting, and staff development. 
• Ensure compliance of grants and contracts.
• Oversee the acquisition, spending, and monitoring of program funds. 
• Ensure program staff follow all Agency and program policies and procedures, including confidentiality. 
• Ensure program staff provide financial assistance in accordance with program policy and procedures; assure the accurate records of financial and other assistance provided to participants (including service delivery) are maintained in the participant/client file, in Agency and/or other designed external data system, when appropriate. 
• Maintain information and statistics per program guidelines. 
• Provide grant writing assistance and contract/grant reports assuring that grant and reporting requirements are met. 
• Ensure licensing, accreditation, and contract standards are carried out within the identified budgetary outcomes of these programs. 
• Operate as the Administrator for the adoption program.
• Provide marketing and outreach services as needed; work closely with marketing program to publicize programs. 
• Work with finance department in creating and monitoring budgets. 
• Attend Agency and community meetings as requested. Maintain working relationships with community agencies in order to provide comprehensive services to clients and to stay abreast of current trends and available resources. 
• Attend in-service training, including internal and external conferences/workshops as indicated. 
• In all community activities, represent Agency’s mission, purpose, and philosophy to the community. 
• Provide guidance and support to community volunteers working within the program. 
• Perform other activities as needed and requested by the Chief Program Officer. 
• Explore opportunities for additional funding resources for designated programs, in conjunction with the Outreach and Engagement staff. 
• Participate in community efforts to explore unmet needs and to develop new programs in response to those in need, as assigned. 
• Assign appropriate staff to manage daily operations of program execution. 
• Provide client advocacy services as needed. 
• Represent Agency at community, Diocesan, and civic events; demonstrate support for community partners by serving on committees and inter-Agency boards. 
• Responsible for the selection, hiring, training and supervision of program personnel. Performs annual performance evaluation with recommendation of salary and/or job description changes relevant to the personnel of this area. Maintains ongoing documentation of employee performance and implementing disciplinary action if necessary. 
• Participate in management meetings and other required senior level meetings, when indicated. 
• Participate in the agency’s annual Second Collection Initiative.  
• Assist with the development of the Agency strategic plan and develop an annual plan for the programs. 
• Ensure programs provide high quality services. 
• Supervise and monitor program outcomes and tracking of related data to ensure data integrity and validation. 
• Ensure budgetary requirements are met. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications: 

• Master’s degree in business, human services, public administration, or related field is required. 
• Five years demonstrated success in nonprofit leadership or for-profit management. 
• Three years of experience facilitating domestic adoptions in the State of Missouri, including but not limited to: 
  • Understanding of Missouri statutes and experience operating in compliance of statutes, ensuring State of Missouri licensing regulations compliance. 
  • Oversight of the preparation of home studies, post placement visits, attendance at court hearings in Jackson County, Buchanan County, and other counties in Missouri. 
  • Working closely with adoption attorneys, hospitals, adoptive parents and birth parents. 
  • Non-identifying search experience. 

Skills and Experience: 

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills 
• Exceptional interpersonal, organizational and leadership skills 
• Solid background in general business functions, including budgeting, monitoring progress toward a budget, staff and human resources management, legal, financial, and regulatory compliance. 
• High energy and passion for the mission and ministry of Catholic Charities is essential

I understand that as an employee of Catholic Charities I am expected to perform my job duties in alignment with the following: 

• Follow the Catholic Social and Moral Teachings in all aspects while performing job duties. 
• Work collaboratively to achieve goals and resolve conflicts to achieve the greater good. 
• Respect for the diversity of talents and gifts of others and believe in cultivating those to promote personal and professional development. 
• Demonstrate compassion and commitment for helping others improve their lives. 
• Follow the Agency values: Faith/Hope, Trust, Commitment, Collaboration. 

Job Type: Full Time