Assistant Unit Director

Job Requisition ID: 49595

Opening Date: 09/23/2025
Closing Date: 10/06/2025
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR II - 26812
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $6,589 - $9,541 per month ($79,068 - $114,492 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Kankakee
Number of Vacancies: 3
Bargaining Unit Code: RC062 Technical Employees, AFSCME
Merit Comp Code:

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This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Mental Health Administrator II for the Shapiro Center located in Kankakee, Illinois to serve as the Assistant Unit Director to coordinate the overall function of the delivery of programs and services for individuals in an assigned unit. Supervises and directs activities of treatment teams to ensure individuals health/medical needs are met; directs treatment teams in formulating and implementing treatment programs for assigned individuals. Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team to ensure compliance with applicable department rules and regulations, Public Health standards, accreditation standards, Shapiro and Department policies, procedures, forms and guidelines.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the Assistant Unit Director at the Shapiro Center.
• Serves as working supervisor .
• Assists higher level administrators on administrative matters and program development and evaluations.
• Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team to ensure compliance with applicable department rules and regulations, Public Health standards, accreditation standards, Shapiro and Department policies, procedures, forms and guidelines.
• Reviews forms, logs and other reports ensuring information is accurate and is submitted in a timely manner.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to either (1) a master’s degree in administration, education or the behavioral sciences and one year of professional experience in or appliable to the provision of therapeutic patient services for persons with mental illness or intellectual disabilities and successful completion of a comprehensive training program at the Mental Health Administrator Trainee level.

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• (2) One year of administrative experience in or applicable to the planning, formulation and implementation of therapeutic and rehabilitative treatment programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of professional experience directing and guiding the activities and services of a direct care program for intellectually disabled individuals for a public or private organization.
• Three (3) years of professional experience monitoring implementation programs, evaluating the plans effectiveness.
• Three (3) years of professional experience developing and implementing policy impacting services for a public or private organization.
• Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience assigning and reviewing work, providing guidance and training staff.
• Three (3) years of professional experience initiating corrective action to assure quality of services to individuals is in compliance with applicable department rules and regulations, Public Health Standards, accreditation standards, policies and procedures, forms and guidelines.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays.
  Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Economic Interest. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.) requires certain state officials and employees to file annual Statements of Economic Interest with the Office of the Secretary of State that will be made available for examination and copying by the public. All employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interest are also required to file the Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission. (See Executive Order 15-09) Fines and penalties apply to untimely filings.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

* The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Work Hours: See Below

(1 vacancy) 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday-Friday; 30 minute unpaid lunch, Unit 1

(1 vacancy) 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday-Friday; 30 minute unpaid lunch, Residential Services

(1 vacancy) 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday-Friday; 30 minute unpaid lunch, Unit 8

Work Location: 100 E Jeffery St, Kankakee, Illinois, 60901

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Shapiro Center

Residential Services

Agency Contact: [email protected]

Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services

About the Agency:

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.

As a State of Illinois Employee, you will receive a robust benefit package that includes the following:

• A Pension Program
• Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
• 12 Paid Sick Days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
• 10-25 Days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
• Personal, Sick, & Vacation rates modified for 12-hour & part-time work schedules (as applicable)
• 13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
• Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
• 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
• Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
• Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
• Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
• GI Bill® Training/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
• 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
• Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)

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