Social and Community Service Managers
Career Cluster
Human Services
Focuses on families and human needs. This field has careers in counseling, mental health, and community services. It can include personal care and consumer services.
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Expected pay range
Expected pay range
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Monthly cost of living
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About social and community service managers
What they do
Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of a social service program or community outreach organization. Oversee the program or organization's budget and policies regarding participant involvement, program requirements, and benefits. Work may involve directing social workers, counselors, or probation officers.
Other titles
Adoption Services Manager, Child Welfare Services Director, Children's Service Supervisor, Clinical Services Director, Community Services Director, Psychiatric Social Worker Supervisor, Social Services Director, Transitional Care Director, Vocational Rehabilitation Administrator
Skills they need
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Licenses and Certifications they may hold
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Certifications
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Health Education Specialists
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Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
Child, Family, and School Social Workers
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Rehabilitation Counselors
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- American Counseling Association (external link opens new tab)
- American Nurses Association (external link opens new tab)
- American Public Human Services Association (external link opens new tab)
- American Society for Public Administration (external link opens new tab)
- Catholic Charities USA (external link opens new tab)
- Council on Social Work Education (external link opens new tab)
- International Childbirth Education Association (external link opens new tab)
- National Association of Social Workers (external link opens new tab)
- National Rehabilitation Association (external link opens new tab)
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Social and community service managers (external link opens new tab)