Foster Care Recruiter (FT)

• Marketing and Sales experience 
• Minimum: High School Diploma  
• Experience working in recruitment, communications, marketing, or public relations required.
• In-Depth knowledge of branding strategies and recruitment marketing.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, automotive insurance, and a good driving record.
• A willingness to work flexible and non-traditional hours in the service of foster caregivers, families of origin, and persons served.
• Proficient use of desktop and laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, printers, fax machines, photocopiers, and software including word processing, spreadsheet, and database programs.
• Foster parent recruitment and licensing experience preferred.
• Marketing and sales experience needed.
• Trainer certification

• This is an extra Commissioned Position  
• Develops and coordinates advertising.
• Conducts cold calls and information meetings.
• Reviews applications, medical examinations, and references.
• Represents the company at job fairs, promotional presentations, and other events to recruit foster parents.
• Conducts foster parent orientation, home study evaluations, pre-service orientation, and training.
• Assists the program in “client match” meetings.
• Compiles and submits foster parent licensing application packets.
• Develops and maintain professional alliances and relationships that will serve to help to recruit efforts.

• Actively supports, represents, and extends the organization's mission, vision, and values.
• Assess growth-orientated, catchment area-specific needs to support regions in achieving/exceeding established census targets.
• Develops, implements, and leads recruitment strategies and campaigns that generate the quantity and quality of licensed foster homes in alignment with annual census targets.
• Lead regional teams in developing potential and existing foster parents in understanding the needs of the youth entering foster care, the expectation of mentoring primary families, and the goal of reunifying youth with the primary family.
• Work with current, former, and prospective foster parents to recruit new foster families.
• Responsible for the knowledge and implementation of all rules, regulations, and policies related to foster care.
• As requested, meet with foster parents experiencing difficulty in the fostering process to remove barriers.
• Support foster parents by providing information, education, meetings, support groups, and one-on-one discussions.
• Collaborates with regional and national employees.
• Prepares monthly and annual reports detailing progress on licensing goals to targets.
• Actively participates in the regular supervision process as scheduled.
• Report incidents to state and supervisory agencies when appropriate.

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Capacity to be flexible and responsive to youth served, foster caregivers, system partners, and internal customers.
• Exhibits the capacity to remain objective yet connected manages reactivity, and self-regulates in response to challenges.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills resulting in effective time and task management.
• Demonstrates agility and responsiveness to organizational needs.
• Consistently exercises independent judgment and identifies collaborative opportunities to meet organizational goals.
• Demonstrates tolerance and respect for the ideas and actions of others.
• Capacity to effectively work with and be respectful and sensitive to persons from various cultures, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds.
• Must be comfortable with public speaking.
• Consistently exercises discretion and independent judgment. Readily confers with supervisor in complex or unique situations.
• Demonstrates strategic and critical thinking resulting in effective time and task management.
• Demonstrated ability to coach others, transferring knowledge and information in easily understandable terms.
• Capacity to interpret and apply organizational policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated capacity to remain objective yet connected, manages reactivity, and self-regulates in response to challenges.
• Ability to interpret and apply organizational policies and procedures.

Salary : $20,000 - $50,000