Adoption Specialist II

Heartland for Children; Bartow (FL); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Domestic partner coverage

Retirement benefits

Generous paid time off

Job summary

A child welfare organization in Florida is seeking a professional to coordinate marketing and recruitment efforts for finding families available for adoption. This role involves training and supporting families through the adoption process and ensuring effective communication with case management organizations. The ideal candidate must have a High School Diploma or GED, with experience in customer service or the child welfare system. Excellent benefits and a supportive work environment are provided.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• One year experience in the child welfare system or customer service.
• Administrative organizational skills and computer literacy are essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate targeted marketing for adoption in local counties.
• Train and support families during the adoption process.
• Assess children and youth's permanency needs.
• Monitor recruitment displays and adoption websites.
• Participate in statewide adoption related calls and trainings.

Skills

Organizational skills

Customer service

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Associate's degree in a related field

Job description

This is a professional position responsible for coordinating targeted marketing and recruitment efforts to find families for children available for adoption in Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties. Will be responsible for training, supporting and preparing families during the adoption process. Also responsible for providing technical assistance necessary to case management organizations to ensure a child’s timely navigation through the dependency system.

Establishes and maintains positive working relationship with HFC internal and external customers

Plan and execute targeted marketing strategies to find families to adopt

Coordinate and/or participates in recruitment and retention activities including promoting local children available for adoption in the community

Recruits and prescreens prospective adoptive families

Assesses permanency needs of the children and youth

Assesses strengths and limitations of placement options

Assists in meeting or exceeding HFC’s annual adoption goals for matched and unmatched children

Develops family systems and community supports for placement options

Teach adoption/specialized classes and information night meetings for prospective families

Arranges and conducts meetings with potential adoptive families

Reviews all adoption home studies for potential child matches

Facilitates or participates in match meetings/staffings and interviews with case management and adoptive families

Provides recommendations for placement match including at-risk placements

Supports pre-adoptive families through the adoption to assure stability

Assists in the development and maintenance of tracking systems

Creates content and collateral materials that helps promote sharing child specific information about children available for adoption

Monitors and/or maintains the adoption websites and recruitment systems ensuring children available for adoption are displayed, and identifying and moving forward with a possible adoption match timely

Provides timely follow up with all interested families who inquire about adoption or generated via the recruitment displays including providing up-to-date Child Studies and/or Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessments (CBHA) when appropriate

Provides supports and works collaboratively with case management regarding families who have active home studies

Participates in statewide adoption related calls, trainings and the campaign initiatives

Participates in and/or facilitate case management staffings to include family team conferencing, multi-disciplinary, reunification, permanency, adoption and post adoptions staffings, AARC Staffings, separated sibling staffings and presentations promoting and supporting adoption

Evaluates the rationale for services, assessments of current placement including the need for additional evaluations through the consideration of the child/family’s circumstance and the provider’s ability to meet the service need or provide alternate settings

Maintains and updates recruitment displays, the Heart Gallery

Performs special projects as assigned

Required Qualifications:

High School Diploma or GED equivalent required. Associatesdegree in a related field preferred. One yearexperience in the child welfare system, training, education, and/or customer service experience is required. Administrative organizational skills and computer literacy are essential.

Excellent benefits package with tuition assistance, domestic partner coverage, retirement andgenerous paid time off.

Additional Information:

Drug free workplace. Drug testing required. EOE/M/F/D/V.