Associate Director - Family Resource & Training Center

The College of Professional Programs, Family Resource and Training Center (FRTC) at Eastern Washington University invites applications for a full-time Associate Director for Social Work & Clinical Practice for the Family Resource and Training Center (FRTC) in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Under the direction of the Director of Operations in the Family Resource & Training Center, the Associate Director of Social Work & Clinical Practice exercises responsibility for supervision and support for social work practice as contracted with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and includes student internships.

The FRTC is a partnership between the EWU College of Professional Programs (CPP) and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW). The FRTC is a training and service center for recruiting, training, and supporting social workers and foster parents throughout Idaho for the State’s child welfare workforce. The center aims to improve the lives of at-risk children and families, and our mission is to build healthy families and communities. This position requires travel to Coeur d’Alene, ID and Cheney, WA on at least a quarterly basis.

See the Job Duties section for a detailed description of the position’s responsibilities.
In addition to salary, the university offers a comprehensive benefits package including healthinsurance, life and disability insurance and retirement. In addition, EWU offers generous vacationand sick leave accruals, 12 paid holidays per year and fringe benefits, such as tuition waiver foremployees, discounted EWU sports tickets, full access to our campus workout facilities at aminimum fee and free transportation through STA buses. For additional information regarding
insurance benefits please see our Benefits page: https://inside.ewu.edu/hr/benefits/insurance/.
Eastern Washington University is committed to increasing and retaining the diversity of its faculty, staff, students and academic programs. We are an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Applications from members of historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.

Eastern Washington University, a regional, comprehensive public university with an enrollment of over 10,000 students, is one of six state-funded four-year institutions of higher education in Washington, each governed by its own board of trustees. EWU’s 300-acre main campus is located in Cheney, a community of 12,000 residents 16 miles southwest of Washington’s second largest city, Spokane. Eastern also offers programs in downtown Spokane at the innovative, energy-efficient Catalyst building, the SIERR building which is a hub for research, development and advancement of health sciences, and at Riverpoint, a campus shared with Washington State University. In addition, EWU programs can be found at select locations throughout the state, aligned with the needs of the community. Eastern contributes to the vitality of the region and the state through its wide array of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in over 100 fields of study, as well as applied doctorates in physical therapy and educational leadership, offering accessible pathways to career success and personal development to students of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.
Eastern Washington University has been recognized for its commitment to helping undergraduate students learn, grow and succeed by Colleges of Distinction, a nationally trusted resource guide for college-bound students. The honor recognizes Eastern as a ’22-’23 College of Distinction (CoD).

Money magazine recently named EWU as one of its Best Colleges in America 2023.

Tribal Land Acknowledgement
Eastern Washington University resides within the traditional homelands of the Spokane People and other tribes who are connected through their shared history of this region. This land holds their cultural DNA and it is their Ancestors who are here and bring forth the knowledge of this place—the knowledge that comes from the land.

Submit your application materials through our online applications portal located here:
https://jobs.hr.ewu.edu. If you are unable to submit through the applicant portal, please contact Human Resources Services at (509) 359-2381. All materials will be held in the strictest confidence; references will not be contacted until candidates have been notified.
It is strongly recommended that you print a copy of these instructions and the position posting before you begin to complete the online application, as the instructions will not be viewable once you begin the application process.
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Note: Letters of Reference are not required at this time. We reserve the right to request letters at a future date, and/or to conduct reference calls to verify employment experience, and job-related skills and abilities. References are not contacted until candidates are notified, and the calls will focus on the reference contacts provided by the candidate. The search committee will not contact other parties for the purpose of obtaining an employment reference without first notifying the candidate(s).
Position is open and accepting applications until closed; screening will begin on March 22, 2024. All materials will be held in the strictest confidence; references will not be contacted until candidates have been notified.