Description

Safe Families Oklahoma, a project managed by It’s My Community Initiative, is a mission-driven, innovative strategy for offering temporary living solutions for children. We focus on minimizing the risk for abuse or neglect, while giving vulnerable parents the time they need to help their families thrive, through the engagement of churches and a volunteer network of host families, coaches, and family friends.

This position matches someone with a heart for connecting the local church with vulnerable children and families, a background and interest in helping people take steps to grow and a passion to empower volunteers to discover and use their gifts to move the mission forward. The Safe Families Regional Hosting Coordinator for OKC is based in the OKC metro area and oversees intakes and hosting arrangements for Safe Families in their region. The primary goals of the Hosting Coordinator is build relationships with other community programs to connect participants to and to support the volunteer teams in their area who carry out the mission of Safe Families Oklahoma, to ensure that children are safe and volunteers are supported as they come alongside families in crisis.

• Cultivate referral partners and a resource network for participant families and referrals.
• Provide consistent staffing and support to volunteer Family Coaches as well and plan and coordinate Family Coach training opportunities throughout the year.
• Oversee the proper input and updating of all intake and hosting documentation and ongoing case notes into the Safe Families National database, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and proper procedures are followed.
• Determine eligibility and assess potential impact of challenges encountered by clients/participating families and respond to crisis situations. Develop volunteer team to provide more coverage.
• Develop strategies and tools for volunteers or participating families to address specific needs in meeting program goals, or utilize tools to de-escalate and set expectations.
• Collaborate with Regional Community Engagement staff and to attend and present to community outreach events and cultivate partnerships with other nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals, and other agencies or service providers that fit within the scope of Safe Families Oklahoma.
• Contribute to SFO social media accounts and webpage
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work or related fields, preferred

• 3 years of experience working in social services, child welfare and/or human services, preferred.
• Experience working with database/management information systems, preferred.

• Familiarity and experience with faith-based or similar programs/services, to include outreach, intake, and case management, preferred.
• Experience regarding customer service/volunteer management, preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficient in all Microsoft Office Applications, required
• Excellent verbal and written skills, required
• Ability to work independently, required
• Strong attention to detail, organizational and critical thinking skills, required
• Must have high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations with tact and diplomacy
• Must have valid Drivers License