Job description
MEDICO-SOCIAL
Director of the Children's Division (M/F)
December 1, 2025
Joining this organization means taking part in a dynamic process of modernization and innovation serving children, adolescents, and families, in a sector where every decision counts and every path is being forged. Rooted in a logic of coordinating pathways, it has a clear ambition: to develop support services into a more integrated, more transparent, and more fluid offering, closely aligned with local needs and everyday realities.
Your role consists of managing, uniting, and transforming a division structured around three complementary systems. Working closely with senior management, you will lead the reorganization towards a regional platform of services, ensure the quality of support and continuous improvement, promote institutional projects and strategic directions, develop and monitor budgets and CPOM objectives, and represent the institution in dealings with key partners (families, schools, the National Education System, CMPP/CMP, hospitals, MDPH, disability stakeholders). Every day, every decision, every initiative aims to strengthen the consistency of the journey from childhood to adolescence and to increase cross-functional collaboration between teams.
This is a golden opportunity because it combines leadership and impact, strategy and fieldwork, vision and execution, with a real degree of autonomy. The division is identified as a key driver of transformation: shifting the institutional culture towards a platform-based approach, developing new partnerships, responding to emerging needs, and revitalizing the offering where there is a real need for expansion and adaptation. You are arriving at a pivotal moment when it is necessary to both consolidate what works and open up a new, more agile, more integrated, and more collaborative path.
The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of the medical-social sector and public policies relating to children, disability, and TND, proven experience in managing institutions and leading change, and the ability to assess a region in order to position a relevant offering. We are looking for someone with natural authority, who is approachable without being effusive, and who is capable of rallying committed multidisciplinary teams (educational, psychological, pedagogical, healthcare, administrative) around an ambitious transformation, without getting bogged down in operational details at the expense of the bigger picture. Knowledge of admission processes and the specificities of childhood is considered essential, with a preference for candidates who have already managed a comparable institution. Required education: CAFDES or Master's degree in medical-social management, with leadership skills based on decision-making, interpersonal skills, and conviction.
If this sounds like you, you will gain a position that gives meaning and scope to your experience: influencing strategy, structuring collective dynamics, and implementing sustainable projects that benefit the young people you support and their loved ones. You will find high-level partners, a committed management team, and a clear mandate to develop practices, cooperation, and the services themselves, with full responsibility for a challenging and exciting scope of work.
Position based in eastern Val-de-Marne.