Description

We’re seeking a visionary, forward-thinking executive to serve as our Assistant Director, Aging and Adult Services, overseeing the County’s Protective Services Bureau, including the Public Administrator/Guardian/Conservator Division and Adult Protective Services (APS). This is a rare opportunity to modernize a complex, high-impact system and safeguard the dignity, rights, and safety of our community’s most vulnerable adults.

Your Mission

Lead and elevate a countywide protective-services system that is grounded in equity, accountability, compassion, and innovation. As the Assistant Director, and the County Public Guardian, you will guide strategic direction, strengthen operations, and drive performance excellence across a continuum of legally mandated, compliance-heavy services. You will partner closely with the Director of Aging and Adult Services, serve as a trusted operational strategist, and oversee managers and teams who execute estate administration, APS investigations, Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorships, and emergency protective interventions.

What Makes This Role Unique

• A Critical Community Impact: You will directly influence systems that protect thousands of adults experiencing abuse, neglect, exploitation, or diminished capacity, ensuring safety, dignity, and due process.
• Legal and Regulatory Complexity: From probate to LPS conservatorships to APS regulations, this role oversees programs governed by multilayered state and federal requirements, requiring both technical expertise and strategic oversight.
• Growth and Modernization: With an aging population and increasing program demand, you’ll lead modernization efforts, redesign workflows, and use data to improve outcomes and service equity.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: You will coordinate across courts, County Counsel, District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, hospitals, behavioral-health partners, and community-based organizations, strengthening a broad protective-services ecosystem.
• Executive Partnership: You’ll serve as a key advisor to the Director on policy, systems design, and long-range planning that shapes the County’s entire aging and adult-services landscape.
   

What You Bring

• Executive-level leadership experience in a highly regulated environment, ideally in probate, conservatorship, guardianship, or adult-protective systems
• Deep understanding of aging and adult-services systems and community-based support networks
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, compliance-heavy programs with both compassion and technical precision
• Skill in data analytics, system redesign, and operational improvement
• Experience building high-trust relationships with courts, legal partners, law-enforcement agencies, healthcare providers, and community organizations
• Strong political acumen, judgment, and communication skills
• Commitment to equity, trauma-informed practice, and client-centered service delivery
   
  
  

Requirements

Application Process and Key Dates

Filing Deadline: Continuous – Open until filled. First review deadline: Friday, May 8, 2026.

For the full job description, go to: https://direc.to/o9_C

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Questions regarding this Executive recruitment may be directed to:

Kendra Conrad, Executive Services at kendra.conrad@esa.sccgov.org

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