CASE MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR

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Job Description

APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE ASSOCIATE BENEFITS OPPORTUNITY SPECIALIST TITLE OR PERMANENT IN THE BENEFITS OPPORTUNITY SPECIALIST TITLE FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR; THIS IS A PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT, WHEN A TEST BECOMES AVAILABLE IN THE ASSOCIATE BENEFITS OPPORTUNITY SPECIALIST (ABOS) TITLE, YOU MUST TAKE AND PASS THE EXAM TO REMAIN IN THE ABOS TITLE.

Family Independence Administration provides temporary help to individuals and families with social service and economic needs to assist them in reaching self-sufficiency via essential and diverse programs/services, such as: temporary cash assistance, SNAP, childcare, eviction prevention services, adult protective services, job training, employment plans/support, domestic violence assistance, child support enforcement, etc.

Under the direction of the Associate Benefits Opportunity Specialist II, the Associate Benefits Opportunity Specialist I (ABOS I) is responsible for supervising a team of BOS staff, who provide various functions of eligibility determination, financial planning, and employment planning and monitoring and other related services to persons in need, to promote individual and family self-sufficiency. The ABOS I use supervisory, program development, quantitative analysis, and other research skills in accomplishing all the goals of FIA Benefits Access Centers and its components (Application, Financial Planning, Employment Planning, Undercare, etc.).

Benefits

FIA’s Operations is recruiting for one (1) Associate Benefits Opportunity Specialist I, to function as Case Management Supervisor, who will:

• Supervise a team of BOS workers who handle the entire application process for all new applicants;

Family Assistance cases which have been closed over sixty days; all Safety Net case reopens

which have been closed regardless of date; and one-shot deals.

• Assign application to staff, review application recommendations and sign off on all benefits as

well as case entries.

• Supervise a team of BOS workers who interview applicants and assess eligibility for immediate

needs grant (food and non-food); for employability and eligibility for public assistance, SNAP

benefits and Medicaid; works with applicants to remove barriers to employment and makes

referrals to other services as needed.

• Prepare daily and weekly statistical reports on work performed as well as monthly audits.
• Assist with case consultation on individual cases and guidance on difficult cases in the case

planning process as necessary.

• Supervise a team of BOS workers who provide comprehensive service delivery to participants

after the establishment of the participant’s case; Family Assistance case that have been closed

less that sixty days or Safety Net cases that have been closed in error.

• Supervise a team of BOS workers who manages all aspects of the case, including establishing

on-going eligibility, assessing participants, developing appropriate Employment Assessment and

Employment Plans and executing specific strategies designed to help participants achieve

self-sufficiency.

• Review employment eligibility decisions for appropriateness and correctness according to Agency

and New York State rules and regulations and performs initial conference/conciliation interview.

• Perform the Mandatory Dispute Resolution function.
• Supervise staff that interview and correspond with homebound clients.
• Supervise a team of BOS who provide quick service for those clients who walk-in or telephone the

center. Additionally, the team will take appropriate action on reported changes, provide information

and documentation as requested by the participants and maintain contact with other teams, to ensure

awareness of all activity that will affect the case management plan.

• Supervise staff who interview and determine housing needs of tenants at risk of homelessness or

already homeless reporting to Benefits Access Centers. Assist in the development of anti-eviction/

housing plan of intervention for referred participants.

• May conduct field visits.

Hours/Shift

Monday – Friday

Qualifications

ASSOCIATE BENEFITS OPPORTUNITY - 56316

• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and three years of

full-time satisfactory experience working directly in social/human services or a

Related Setting, Providing Either

• client services.
• employment planning/counseling services which involves job development,

Skills Assessment, And Employment Placement Or Other Economic

opportunity programming.

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college; plus eighteen months of full time satisfactory

experience working as a Benefits Opportunity Specialist; or

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college; plus eighteen months of full time satisfactory

experience as described in one (1) above.

• College credit from an accredited college may be substituted for this experience

on the basis of 60 semester credits for 9 months of the work experience described

above. However, all candidates must have at least 18 months of full-time

satisfactory experience working as a Benefits Opportunity Specialist or performing

social/human services work as described in one (1) above.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

Salary Min: $ 58,377.00

Salary Max: $ 67,134.00

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