Adoption Recruitment Specialist - Find Forever Homes

Saint Dominic's Family Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Dominic's Family Services seeks a WWK Recruiter to lead outreach, education, and recruitment for a caseload of children awaiting adoption and prospective adoptive families. You will collaborate with case planners, ACS, and community partners to identify permanency resources and support child-focused recruitment plans.

Requirements include a high school diploma or GED (Bachelor's preferred in human services) and foster care experience is preferred; bilingual skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• High School diploma/GED required; Bachelor’s preferred in human services field.
• Child Welfare In Foster Care Experience Preferred.
• Bi-lingual preferred.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the local child welfare system including adoptions.
• Establish personal relationships with referred children and assist them in honoring the past, present and future through child readiness activities.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with case planners, supervisors, administrators, therapists, ACS.
• Develop and implement a child-focused (custom) adoption recruitment plan for each child.
• Demonstrate advocacy through recruitment efforts; responds to barriers as opportunities.
• Align actions, words and behaviors with “unadoptable is unacceptable.”
• Actively recruit permanent resources for assigned children including individuals connected to the child, biological relatives, professional contacts in the community, area churches, and any other resource that may lead to permanency for a child.
• Present at Bronx Community events, churches, hospitals, etc.
• Back-up the Director of Intake and Home Finding in ACS and Community Based recruitment meetings.

Skills

Bi-lingual

Education

High School diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in human services

Job description

Saint Dominic's Family Services seeks a WWK Recruiter to lead outreach, education, and recruitment for a caseload of children awaiting adoption and prospective adoptive families. You will collaborate with case planners, ACS, and community partners to identify permanency resources and support child-focused recruitment plans.

Requirements include a high school diploma or GED (Bachelor's preferred in human services) and foster care experience is preferred; bilingual skills are a plus.