What would you do as a Social and community service manager?
Social and community service managers
- usually work regular business hours
- usually work in offices and community centres and may travel locally or nationally
- need to be responsible, organised and communicate well
Tasks
- manage social service programmes and teams
- create plans to support communities
- check how well services are working
- supervise and support staff
- develop rules and policies for services
- create budgets and financial reports
- keep records of services and activities
- solve problems and complaints
- find out what communities need
- work with other community organisations
How can you become a Social and community service manager?
You usually need experience to become a social and community service manager and a qualification may be useful.
You may need
- experience in similar work
- an intermediate certificate in community client care
- to do an apprenticeship in community client care
- a relevant tertiary qualification in human welfare or similar area
- a master's degree in social work
- a driver licence
- to pass a police check
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 or University Entrance to do the study or training for this job.
