Crisis Community Programs Administrator

Job description

Position Overview
The Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire a Crisis Community Programs Administrator located in Chicago, Illinois. The incumbent will act authoritatively on policy-making issues impacting agency management and statewide agency operations. Formulates and implements policy impacting Crisis Community Programs which has a statewide impact for the total management process. Identifies federal and state human service funding opportunities and impact of grant funded programs on intellectually disabled communities.

Essential Functions
• Serves as the Administrator of Crisis Community Programs.
• Provides direction and guidance to staff to ensure effective implementation of Division of Mental Health (DMH) program, fiscal, and grant management based on Grants Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA) requirements.
• Identifies federal and state human service funding opportunities and impact of grant funded programs on intellectually disabled communities.
• Develops and maintains relationships with foundations and corporations in order to leverage and maximizes state and federal funding to provide support and enhance delivery of services.
• Develops the reporting and analysis of performance measures specific to grants to various audiences, including the governor’s office and the Department’s service delivery partners, to monitor on-going budget performance of grantees and grant appropriations.
• Serves as full-line supervisor.
• Maintains awareness of changes to the grant and budget protocols and practices and ensures their implementation.
• Designs, develops, and implements measures to increase federal, foundation, and corporate funding to community mental health service delivery systems, while ensuring for budgeting of administration dollars to support the management of grants.
• Supports the development of evaluation designs to ensure the integration of process and outcome findings into program management.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable