Part-Time Resource Family Recruiter Job at Seneca Family of Agencies
Overview:
About the Role
About Seneca
Seneca Family of Agencies was founded in 1985 as a small Bay Area residential and day treatment program with a simple but powerful mission: to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Since then, Seneca has expanded to provide a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services, which today reach over 18,000 youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year. The agency’s growth has been guided by a commitment to our Unconditional Care® model – doing whatever it takes to help children and families thrive, even when faced with tremendous challenges. Seneca is committed to supporting historically underrepresented communities and informing agency policies and practices through its agency-wide DEI Initiative and DEI Advisory Board. Our agency’s values of love and compassion, hope and courage, respect, curiosity, joy, equity and justice anchor our work across all programs, ensuring our staff leverage the cultural strengths of the families and communities we serve
. Seneca is committed to fostering an agency culture that is welcoming, cooperative, and inclusive of diverse peoples and worldviews.
About the Role
The
Recruitment and Retention Specialist
(Recruiter)
works as part of Seneca’s Resource Family Recruitment team to attract, screen, approve and support resource families across all placement programs. The Recruiter is responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of recruitment strategies and representing the agency in the community. They work in partnership with placement programs to ensure approved resource families represent the needs of the community and to increase family retention.
Responsibilities:
- Develop targeted recruitment strategies to meet the recruitment goal in each designated region
- Develop community awareness of Seneca’s foster care programs and opportunities for different types of caregiving
- Attend fairs, events and conferences to promote Seneca’s placement programs as needed
- Deliver enthusiastic and professional presentations to the public about caregiver needs
- Facilitate informational orientations for potential applicants
- Support resource family applicants in completion of the certification process, including fully utilizing all organizations systems, including but not limited to Binti, SharePoint, Microsoft Office
- Screen and evaluate resource family applicants fit for Seneca’s placement programs, including in person home evaluations as needed
- Assess for applicant understanding of Trauma-Informed Care and Unconditional Care philosophies as they apply to caring for high-needs youth
- Develop and implement resource family retention and support strategies as needed
- Work in collaboration with placement and treatment teams to align recruitment and retention strategies with community needs
- Develop understanding of Community Care Licensing Regulations and, in collaboration with the program staff, ensure program and family compliance with regulations
- Maintain accurate documentation and paperwork including, but not limited to, time sheets, expenses, and mileage
- Maintain professional behavior at all times, appropriately representing Seneca’s mission and philosophy
- Participate in supervision with the Supervisor or designee
- Attend trainings as required
- Maintain a flexible schedule which includes evenings and weekends
- All other duties as assigned by supervisor
- BA/BS or equivalent degree
- Experience or interest in working with vulnerable communities and diverse populations
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Strong organizational, writing and communication skills.
- Computer literacy
- Own vehicle, valid California Driver’s License and insurance
- Clean driving record
- Clearance of TB test and LiveScan fingerprinting
- Flexible schedule with ability to work evenings and weekends as needed
- Bilingual skills preferred
- Part time, flexible scheduling.
- Generally 9-5 Monday-Friday with total of 20 hours
- Occasional evenings/weekends as needed
- Starting at $21.00 an hour. The actual salary is dependent on creditable experience above the minimum qualifications for the role.
- Additional compensation provided upon passing bilingual proficiency exam
- Salary increases each year
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture, and fertility coverage
- Long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance
- 50% paid premiums for dependents
- 403b retirement plan
- Employer-paid Employee Assistance Plan
- Prorated 5 weeks of paid time off and 11 paid holidays
- Scholarship opportunities, ongoing training, professional development opportunities, and abundant promotional opportunities across the agency in California and Washington
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