Salary : $75,795.20 - $116,708.80 Annually
Location : Woodward - 50276 - Boone County, IA
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: Agency: 400 Health & Human Services - State Operated Specialty Care - Woodward Resource Center
Opening Date: 07/08/2025
Closing Date: 7/20/ :59 PM Central
LinkedIn Tag: #LI-DNP
Point of Contact: Val Kilmer, & Simone Donovan,
Job Description The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Division of State-Operated Specialty Care, Bureau of Woodward Resource Center (WRC) is seeking a passionate and dedicated Treatment Program Administrator to join our team. This is a full-time position with a non-fixed, variable schedule. Are you driven by a desire to make a positive impact in your community? This is more than just a job-it's an opportunity to support intellectually disabled individuals in community-based homes.
What You'll Do As a Treatment Program Administrator, you'll play a vital role in helping to equip our team with the knowledge and skills to deliver exceptional care and support. Your responsibilities will include:
- Supervision: Directly and indirectly supervise employees ensuring that all probationary and yearly evaluations of job performance are completed within deadlines, work duties and training are assigned as needed, attendance is tracked, and collective bargaining agreements are followed. Recommend or initiate personnel actions related to performance, absences, grievances, and disciplinary procedures through the WRC Human Resources Department.
- Performance Coaching and Team Collaboration: Ensure staff receive competency-based training on member Comprehensive Plans, programs, support, medications, treatments, and general job expectations. Maintain close contact with supervisees to measure and improve quality of services, implement quality initiatives in their respective areas, and assess outcomes and the efficacy of quality efforts.
- Ethical Conduct: Uphold the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity in all aspects of your work, serving as a role model for our team members.
- Initiative and Commitment: Organize and direct daily business so that services operate in the most effective and efficient manner.
- Collaboration: Troubleshoot with members' parents/guardians, community social workers, case managers, and other community personnel as needed to assure continuity of the program.
Key Competencies Successful candidates for this position will demonstrate the following competencies:
- Knowledge: Understand community service organizations and how their resources may be coordinated with the needs of the institution. Adhere to all Federal, State, Department of Health and Human Services, and WRC regulations, policies, and procedures covering HCBS Waiver
- Assessment and Implementation: Read, understand, and implement detailed written and/or oral instructions, policies, methods, and procedures.
- Relationship Building: Work as liaison between parents, guardians, families, Case Mangers, and the IDT. Build, foster, and maintain partnerships at a variety of levels.
- Instructional Design: Teach, instruct, and lead in the implementation of various therapeutic procedures and practices.
Applicants will be required to complete a background check to be considered for this position.
About Woodward Resource Center (WRC) At WRC, our mission is to prepare and support individuals to live in the community of their choice. We're committed to providing quality care and support tailored to each individual's needs and aspirations.
Benefits of Joining WRC Working for the State of Iowa comes with its perks. In addition to a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth.
- Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Health and dental insurance packages to keep you and your family healthy at a low cost with outstanding coverage!
- Paid Time Off: Take time to recharge with paid time off, including vacation(96 hours/year to begin, increasing with years of service), sick leave (144 hours/year), and paid holidays (9 days/year).
- Retirement Plans: Participate in retirement plans such as IPERS (employees contribute 6.29% and the State of Iowa contributes 9.44%) as well as our Retirement Investors Club (RIC), Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan (the State of Iowa matches dollar for dollar up to $75/month).
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Take advantage of flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care expenses.
- Insurance Coverage: Benefit from life insurance and free long-term disability insurance for added peace of mind.
- Employee Assistance Program: Access resources and support through our Employee Assistance Program for personal and professional challenges.
- Employee Discount Programs: Enjoy discounts on a variety of goods and services through our employee discount programs.
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Woodward Highlights Woodward is a city of approximately 1,300 located in central Iowa. The High Trestle Trail begins here and boasts 25 miles of paved surface running through five towns and four counties in the heart of Iowa. The trail includes an iconic, 1/2-mile, 13-story high bridge across the Des Moines River valley, one of the largest trail bridges in the world. The Iowa Arboretum & Gardens is just a quick drive away offering more trails, scenic overlooks and other amazing natural features.
Woodward is about 30 minutes away Ames, home of Iowa State University. Des Moines, Iowa's capitol city, is also about the same distance away and home to Wells Fargo Arena (host site of NCAA Basketball and premier concerts) and Lauridsen Skatepark, the nation's largest skatepark. Additionally, Des Moines hosts one of the nation's finest State Fairs and is home to professional sports teams the Iowa Cubs, Iowa Wolves, Iowa Barnstormers and Iowa Wild. Check out these 10 Reasons to Move to Iowa.
The State of Iowa is an EEO/AA Employer HHS values those with "lived experience" and encourages adults who were fostered as youth, foster parents, and/or parents who were in the HHS system to apply. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply (Hearing and Speech Impaired - Relay Iowa TDD).
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Minimum Qualification Requirements Graduation from an accredited college or university and experience equal to four years of full-time professional-level work in a treatment or habilitation program for correctional inmates, delinquent, disadvantaged, mentally or emotionally ill, or intellectually disabled, two years of which were at the administrative, consultive, advanced professional, or supervisory level;
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an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting thirty semester hours of graduate level course work in the administrative sciences (e.g., business administration), social/behavioral sciences, or health sciences for each year of the required experience up to a maximum substitution of two years of the general experience requirement (no substitution for the consultive, advanced professional, administrative, or supervisory experience) shall be considered as qualifying.
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Additional Qualification Requirements For purposes of qualifying, "professional-level experience" shall be exemplified by responsibility for assessment and diagnosis of client problems and needs, developing a plan of treatment, evaluating client progress toward meeting treatment goals, modifying treatment objectives. Work at this level generally requires a prerequisite of four or more years of post high school educational training in one of the behavioral, social, or health sciences.
At the time of interview, applicants referred to Glenwood and Woodward State Hospital-Schools will be assessed to determine if they meet federal employment requirements as published in the Federal Register, Section 20 CFR .
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Paid Time Off: Life is unpredictable, and at the State of Iowa, we understand the importance of work-life balance. Our leave policies, including paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave with unlimited accrual, ensure you have the flexibility you need for personal and family matters.
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IF YES How many years do you have of full-time professional-level work in a treatment or habilitation program for correctional inmates, delinquent, disadvantaged, mentally or emotionally ill, or intellectually disabled, two years of which were at the administrative, consultive, advanced professional, or supervisory level?
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Have you graduated from a four-year college or university?
IF YES - How many years do you have of a combination of graduate (post bachelor degree) education in the administrative sciences (e.g., business administration), social/behavioral sciences, or health sciences
AND full-time professional-level work in a treatment or habilitation program for correctional inmates, delinquent, disadvantaged, mentally or emotionally ill, or intellectually disabled?
Note: 30 semester hours of graduate level coursework equals one year of the experience. A Maximum of 60 semester hours can be substituted for the experience. Applicants must have at least one year of documented full-time professional-level work in a treatment or habilitation program for correctional inmates, delinquent, disadvantaged, mentally or emotionally ill, or intellectually disabled.
- I have not graduated from a four-year college or university
- No experience in the identified areas
- Less than two years of experience in the identified areas
- Two years to less than four years of experience in the identified areas
- Four or more years of experience in the identified areas
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