RECRUITER WWK

Bobit Business Media; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 42 000 - 64 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Saint Dominic’s Family Services is seeking a WWK Recruiter to lead outreach, education, and recruitment efforts for a caseload of children awaiting adoption and potential adoptive families.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate knowledge of the local child welfare system, build strong relationships with case planners, ACS, and community partners, and develop child-focused recruitment plans that promote permanency.

Qualificações

• High School diploma or GED required; Bachelor’s preferred in human services field.
• Child welfare in foster care experience preferred.
• Strong outreach and recruitment skills for adoption-focused programs.

Responsabilidades

• Establish relationships with referred children and assist with readiness activities.
• Maintain collaborative relationships with case planners, supervisors, and ACS.
• Articulate recruitment strategies (General/Child-Specific/Targeted) and implement child-focused plans.
• Develop and implement a child-focused adoption recruitment plan for each child.
• Advocate through recruitment efforts and address barriers as opportunities.
• Coordinate recruitment with SDH staff and other community resources.
• Present at Bronx Community events, churches, hospitals, and other venues.
• Back-up the Director of Intake and Home Finding in meetings and orientations.
• Maintain recruitment records and data as required.

Conhecimentos

Recruitment outreach

Child welfare knowledge

Relationship building

Trauma-informed communication

Formação académica

High School diploma/GED

Bachelor’s degree in human services

Foster care/Child Welfare experience

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Saint Dominic's Family Servicesis an Equal Opportunity Employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans). To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law poster.

The WWK Recruiter is responsible for outreach, education, and recruitment efforts regarding a specific, identified caseload of children awaiting adoption and potential adoptive families.

Demonstrate a working knowledge of the local child welfare system including adoptions.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Articulate Child Focused Recruitment and understand the difference between General Recruitment, Child Specific Recruitment, and Targeted Recruitment as demonstrated in the implementation of Recruitment Services.
• 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.
• Incorporate child friendly language that is developmentally and age appropriate.
• Communicate the impact of trauma on youth and development.
• Monitor successful recruitment efforts.
• Follow all necessary program requirements in terms of case management, data collections, and reporting as outlined by St. Dominic’s Family Services and the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program.
• Coordinate with supervisor or other St. Dominic’s staff on the completion of any other assigned task.
• Identify and make connections with Bronx Community recruitment resources.
• Present at Bronx Community events, churches, hospitals, etc.
• Back-up the Director of Intake and Home Finding in ACS and Community Based recruitment meetings.
• Back-up the Director of Intake and Home Finding in SDH foster parent orientation.
• Maintenance of records: recruitment spreadsheet.

Education & Experience

High School diploma/GED required; Bachelor’s preferred in human services field,

Child Welfare in Foster Care experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

Ability to travel in the community and to use a computer.