Title: Support Enforcement Specialist #W0621 (Multiple positions)
State Role Title: Program Administration Specialist I
Hiring Range: $40,839 – $50,000 per year (salary commensurate with experience)
Pay Band: 4
Agency: Department of Social Services
Location:DCSE Valley District Office
Agency Website:https://www.dss.virginia.gov/
Recruitment Type: General Public – G
Job Duties
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 (SES) serves as program agent for assigned child support cases, engaging families to ensure the financial and family support they need to grow and thrive. Duties in this position may include:
• Locating non-custodial parents
• Establishing paternity
• Determining and assessing child support obligations and health care coverage
• Ensuring parents comply with child and/or medical support orders through a number of administrative and judicial enforcement actions
• Providing testimony in court proceedings when required
• Connecting parent with resources and partners that support their ability to be self- sufficient and active participants in their child lives
The SES position manages a large caseload equal in volume and complexity and draws on a wide range of case management and communication skills to influence noncustodial and custodial parents toward supporting their children.
The ideal candidate enjoys:
• Delivering a high level of customer service while maximizing payment collection efforts and addressing other customer service inquiries
• Handling sensitive case information (legal, financial, medical, and other personal circumstances)
• Researching, analyzing, and following up on accounts to verify established protocols have been achieved
• Interacting with customer to resolve their challenges and questions using multiple communication channels
• Developing effective partnerships within and across teams that create a culture of continuous support for each other and customers
• The challenge of building strong relationships through proactively calling customers who may be evading or distrust the child support system
• A high-volume and detail-oriented role where multiple conflicting priorities are consistently part of the daily workload.
The Division of Child Support Enforcement offers an interactive team setting, where staff receive structured training, and the benefit of on-the-job coaching. Support Enforcement Specialist are given the tools to develop the competence and independence to successfully meet the challenges of engaging this fast paced, performance driven environment.
VDSS engages its employees for success offering comprehensive pay and employee benefits, development, and unique job and career opportunities in public service. VDSS employees make a vital difference for Virginia’s families.
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.
The Division of Child Support Enforcement (DCSE) is committed to helping parents support their children by focusing on more than just money. DCSE offers free family engagement services focusing on access and visitation, responsible parenting, employment assistance, and prisoner reentry.
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 (SES) serves as program agent for assigned child support cases, engaging families to ensure the financial and family support they need to grow and thrive. Duties in this position may include:
• Locating non-custodial parents
• Establishing paternity
• Determining and assessing child support obligations and health care coverage
• Ensuring parents comply with child and/or medical support orders through a number of administrative and judicial enforcement actions
• Providing testimony in court proceedings when required
• Connecting parent with resources and partners that support their ability to be self- sufficient and active participants in their child lives
The SES position manages a large caseload equal in volume and complexity and draws on a wide range of case management and communication skills to influence noncustodial and custodial parents toward supporting their children.
The ideal candidate enjoys:
• Delivering a high level of customer service while maximizing payment collection efforts and addressing other customer service inquiries
• Handling sensitive case information (legal, financial, medical, and other personal circumstances)
• Researching, analyzing, and following up on accounts to verify established protocols have been achieved
• Interacting with customer to resolve their challenges and questions using multiple communication channels
• Developing effective partnerships within and across teams that create a culture of continuous support for each other and customers
• The challenge of building strong relationships through proactively calling customers who may be evading or distrust the child support system
• A high-volume and detail-oriented role where multiple conflicting priorities are consistently part of the daily workload.
The Division of Child Support Enforcement offers an interactive team setting, where staff receive structured training, and the benefit of on-the-job coaching. Support Enforcement Specialist are given the tools to develop the competence and independence to successfully meet the challenges of engaging this fast paced, performance driven environment.
VDSS engages its employees for success offering comprehensive pay and employee benefits, development, and unique job and career opportunities in public service. VDSS employees make a vital difference for Virginia’s families.
Minimum Qualifications
• Ability to interact with a diverse public in a service setting to tactfully solve problems, sometimes in difficult situations where conflict is encountered.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently: plan, organize, and handle multiple priorities in a case management/caseload setting.
• Demonstrated skill in information collection through interviewing and obtaining/reviewing records, documents, financial data, and reports and the ability to analyze, determine and document the appropriate action in order to achieve results.
• Ability to interpret and apply laws, regulations, policies, and/or procedures to ensure compliance and produce outcomes and results.
• Demonstrated skill in the use of a personal computer, automated information systems, and remote access technology.
• Skill in effective oral and written communications.
• Ability to work in a considerate and respectful way as a team member to set, clarify and achieve team goals.
Additional Considerations
• Prefer relevant certificate(s) and/or job training (including employer training programs).
• Prefer working experience in case management, or gathering and organizing client documentation to process financial transactions or maintain case activities (this includes account collection/payment arrangement or customer service settings).
• Prefer knowledge of and/or working experience in legal processes, to include preparing legal documents and providing court testimony.
• Prefer working experience in child support enforcement.
• Where “working experience” is listed in an additional considerations above, prefer recent working experience to ensure relevance to current technology, work practices and methods, and familiarity with current laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Where “working experience” is listed in an additional considerations above, prefer jobs whose duties show that the “working experience” was a primary purpose of employment.
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.
This position may be eligible for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration will be in accordance with the Commonwealth’s Teleworking policy.
Selected candidate may be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.
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 preferred qualifications stated in the job announcement. The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information provided. This website will provide a confirmation of receipt when the application is submitted for consideration. Please refer to your PageUp account for the status of your application and this position.
VDSS 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.
Virginia Department of Social Services does not provide sponsorship. The Virginia Department of Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages diversity within its workforce.
We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application or resume. Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans and people with National Service experience are encouraged to apply. For more information about our employment practices, please visit our “Vision, Mission and Strategic Plan”. Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment within 90 days of the closing date.
In addition to a rewarding work experience, VDSS offers excellent health and life insurance benefits, pre-tax spending accounts, state funded Short and Long Term Disability, paid holidays, vacation, tuition assistance, free wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching – Employee Benefits.
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 Certificate of Disability (COD) provided by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor within the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their Certificate of Disability. If you need to get a Certificate of Disability, use this link: Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities, or call DARS at 800-552-5019, or DBVI at 800-622-2155.