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.
