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Social Worker
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Superintendent, Mescalero Agency in Mescalero, New Mexico. You will plan, develop, implement, and monitor the agency's child protection services within the Mescalero reservation.
What You'll Do
- →As Social Worker, GS-0185, your typical work assignments may include, but not limited to: Works in conjunction with the Supervisory Social Worker in program planning developing, and monitoring of child protection services.
- →Serves as an Awarding Official Technical Representative for Social Service and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) contracts and grants.
- →Provides critical protective services to children, vulnerable adults, and the elderly to include protective service investigations, conducting risk and safety assessments, and case management services.
- →Arranges for foster care placements, institutional placements, and out-of-home placements based on the outcome of a protective service investigation.
- →Provides technical assistance in the development of protective service teams.
- →Assists in reviewing, researching and responding to incoming ICWA notices within a regulatory timeframe.
- →Enters all received ICWA notices into the Bureau's case management system on a regular basis.
- →Reviews and consolidates received ICWA reports and seeks clarification from tribes as needed.
- →Assists with policy development surrounding all subcomponents of a Human Services program.
Requirements
- ✓If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
- ✓All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
- ✓One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.
- ✓Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.
- ✓If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Personality Fit
Job ID: 69f15b71-f161-4385-81f3-48f9169d185c
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