What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adoption Recruiter position at CAMELOT COMMUNITY CARE INC?
Camelot Community Care, which was named the Large Non-Profit of the year at the Tampa Bay Business and Wealth Magazine’s 2022 Philanthropy Awards, employs over 500 dedicated and talented professionals who lead us in our efforts of helping children reach their fullest potential. Working for Camelot is a unique experience where each employee is asked not only to shape the future of the children they serve, but also help shape the future of the company. We take pride in our organizational culture of allowing local programs and staff an appropriate amount of autonomy to design and deliver services that best meet their community's needs. Camelot is not a top-heavy organization but instead we place our trust and confidence in local leadership with the corporate administration providing guidance, support and the necessary resources to provide high quality services.
The Adoption recruiter will be to identify families to participate, select and support available children and youth, collaborate with case management and other stakeholders to move cases through finalization and track and report outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for working with children and youth in need of adoption recruitment, streaming the matching process, and producing adoption finalization's.
- Meet with children to understand their hopes for an adoptive family. The recruiter will speak to children about adoption to ensure they understand their permanency goal, their rights, and to debunk adoption myths.
- Will allow children, when appropriate, to vet their own connections be selecting families for children to see pictures of, read welcome letters, and watch videos provided.
- Co-plan and host quarterly mixers to present children to families to secure connections.
- Communicate with families and view family profiles.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Services field (social work, psychology)
- Two years of child welfare experience. One year of adoption experience preferred.
- Must have current CWCM through the Florida Certification Board.
- Position requires travel, night/weekend availability is needed for meetings and events.
Salary : $53,000