Job Summary

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

Duties & Responsibilities

Demonstrate a working knowledge of the local child welfare system including adoptions.
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.
Bi-lingual preferred.

Physical Requirements

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

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