Support Enforcement Specialist Senior (#W0581, #W1996)

Title: Support Enforcement Specialist Senior (#W0581, #W1996)

State Role Title: Prog Admin Specialist I

Hiring Range: $48,000 to $58,000 per year (salary commensurate with experience)

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Department of Social Services

Location: DCSE WINCHESTER

Agency Website: www.dss.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: Agency Employee Only - A

Job Duties

At the Virginia Department of Social Services, we put people at the center of everything we do. We believe that every Virginian can live a life of dignity and that all voices, ideas and experiences contribute greatly to our pursuit of excellence. Inspired by continuous improvement, we commit ourselves to listening, learning and cultivating environments of trust, respect and positive engagement. Together, we are mission-driven, eager to achieve, and passionate about bringing the best of who we are to those we serve.

We design and deliver high-quality human services that help Virginians achieve safety, independence, and overall well-being. We are a $2 billion agency – one of the largest in the Commonwealth of Virginia – partnering with 120 local departments of social services and 31 community action agencies, along with faith-based and non-profit organizations, to promote the well-being of children, adults, and families statewide. We proudly serve alongside 1,650 (state) and 12,200 (local) human services professionals throughout the Social Services System, who ensure that thousands of Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens have easy access to the services and benefits available to them.

The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) engages families for success. Its Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCSE) manages 285,442 cases to ensure that child support payments of $703 million per year reach families across the Commonwealth. Support Enforcement Specialists establish and sustain helping relationships with parents who have payment obligations as well as parents who depend on those payments.

Virginia’s children need both financial and family support to grow and thrive. Children with actively involved parents perform better in school, have high self-confidence, and generally achieve greater success in life.

DCSE’s mission is to promote strong, self-reliant families by delivering child support enforcement services, as provided by law, through the location of noncustodial parents, establishment of orders, enforcement of orders, collection of child support, and distribution of child support.

The Support Enforcement Specialist Senior serves as lead program agent on assigned child support case management team, engaging families for success so that they have the financial and family support they need to grow and thrive. Duties may include managing most complex cases of child support obligations and health care coverage in functional areas such as Locate, Establishment, Court, Enforcement, Interstate, and Review & Adjustment; or, supporting a team of Specialists who are assigned those cases. May train—orient, cross-train, retrain—Specialists in procedures to determine, assess and modify obligations, ensuring compliance of child support and/or medical support orders and apply a number of administrative and judicial actions.

The Support Enforcement Specialist Senior may provide testimony in court proceedings when required. May complete compliance reviews within own and other district offices. Draws on extensive knowledge of a range of case management processes to ensure compliance, influence non-custodial parents and support custodial parents and their children.
The Support Enforcement Specialist Senior will provide direct support to the Division of Child Support Enforcement

Minimum Qualifications

• Skill in information collection through interviewing and obtaining and reviewing records, documents and reports.
• Ability to analyze and determine the appropriate action in order to achieve results.
• Ability to interact with a diverse public in a service setting to tactfully solve problems, sometimes in difficult situations where conflict is encountered.
• Works in a considerate and respectful way as a team member to set, clarify and achieve team goals.
• Ability to give guidance to others that promotes teamwork, improving member contributions and team results.
• Skill in effective oral and written communication.
• Ability to work independently: plan, organize, and handle multiple priorities in a case
management/caseload setting.
• Ability to interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies and or procedures to ensure compliance and produce outcomes and results.

Additional Considerations

• Comprehensive knowledge of child support enforcement
• Experience in case management or gathering and organizing client documentation to process financial transactions or maintain case activities.
• Experience in child support enforcement.
• Knowledge of and or experience in legal processes, to include preparing legal documents and providing court testimony.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Selected candidate(s) must successfully pass a fingerprint-based criminal history background check. A record of criminal history does not automatically bar an applicant from consideration. Employment verification will be conducted to include current/previous supervisory employment reference checks.

VDSS will record information from each new employee’s Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) into the Federal E-Verify system to confirm identity and work authorization.

To be considered for this position, you must submit a Commonwealth of Virginia application or resume through the on-line “Virginia Jobs” (PageUp) employment site no later than 11:55 p.m. on the closing date listed. Each application is reviewed for documentation that shows the applicant meets the minimum and additional considerations as stated in the job announcement. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided. Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date.

The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages diversity within its workforce.

VDSS does not provide sponsorship.

VDSS is an official certified state agency that values the service and experience of our Veterans. As such, Veterans are encouraged to apply and receive preference in the hiring process. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and other national service alumni also are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodations are available to applicants, if requested, during the application and/or interview process.

If you have been affected by Policy 1.30 Layoff as a state employee and possess a valid Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Form) or a Preferential Hiring Card (Blue Card), you must submit this document through the “Virginia Jobs” (PageUp) employment site when you apply.

Contact Information

Name: VDSS – Division of Human Resources

Phone: dssrecruitment@dss.virginia.gov

Email: dssrecruitment@dss.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.