LICENSING SPECIALIST - CHILD CARE - 60034862 1
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The licensing counselor performs day-to-day regulatory activities for Florida’s Child Care Regulation Program. The role advises prospective and existing child care providers, conducts inspections to assess compliance with licensing standards, responds to inquiries, coordinates with department staff and other agencies, maintains facility and home licensing files, and informs a supervisor of issues requiring escalation. The position works in Hernando County, with an office location in Ocala, and requires travel and three weeks of out-of-town pre-service training.
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LICENSING SPECIALIST - CHILD CARE - 60034862 1
Date: Oct 19, 2026
The State Personnel System is an E-Verify employer. For more information click on our E-Verify Website (http://www.dms.myflorida.com/workforce\_operations/human\_resource\_management/for\_job\_applicants/e\_verify) .
Requisition No: 885959
Agency: Children and Families
Working Title: LICENSING SPECIALIST - CHILD CARE - 60034862 1
Pay Plan: Career Service
Position Number: 60034862
Salary: AGENCY TO UPDATE
Posting Closing Date: 10/27/2026
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This position will work in Hernando County. The office location is in Ocala, Florida.
The licensing counselor is the authorized agent of the Department responsible for performing the day-to-day regulatory activities of the Child Care Regulation Program. The duties of the licensing counselor are many and varied and include (but are not limited to): serving as a technical advisor/consultant to prospective and existing child care providers, ensuring compliance with licensing standards by conducting regular inspections and those resulting from a complaint, and handling those inquiries not completed at the clerical level. Each licensing counselor is expected to be fully familiar with those laws (state and federal), administrative rules, and policies that affect the Child Care Regulation Program (described in this chapter). The licensing counselor will often be required to coordinate and collaborate with staff of other programs within the Department and with staff of other agencies that have regulatory authority relating to childcare providers. Examples of this include environmental health issues, inspections by community health nurses, fire inspections, resource and referral functions, background screening, and complaint referrals and investigations. The licensing counselor is responsible for maintaining a complete and accurate file for each licensed childcare facility and family day care home (registered or licensed) assigned to his or her caseload. Finally, it is the responsibility of each childcare licensing counselor to inform his or her supervisor in a timely manner of any issue that may be elevated to their level of responsibility. State Bi-weekly pay is 1396.81.
Position requires travel and mandatory 3 weeks of pre-service training out of town for a week at a time to attend pre-service.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clickinghere (http://www.dms.myflorida.com/content/download/97612/566545) . All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.
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