This is supervisory work coordinating and directing a federal grant program that provides benefits to low-income elderly persons to mentor children and youth in Kansas who have a variety of special and exceptional needs. Work involves supervising and training Foster Grandparents and program staff, planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating all phases of the program's operations including grant administration.
Work also includes promotion of the foster grandparent program in the community.
New, unusual, or complex work situations are almost always referred to a superior for advice. Work is periodically checked for progress and conformance to established policies and requirements. Usually positions that require planning, developing, and coordinating programs and directing fairly large groups of people fall into this category. Considerable analytical thought is necessary for interpreting a variety of factors, problems and alternatives for methods and procedures. Work requires the origination of ideas, techniques and programs for solving technical problems or complicated situations.