Job Offer: Coordinator of Marketing & Foster Parent Engagement

Coordinator of Marketing & Foster Parent Engagement

POSITION OVERVIEW

POSITION SUMMARY
The Therapeutic Foster Family Program provides foster and pre-adoptive foster homes for abused and neglected children from birth through age 21. Each foster parent receives intensive training and continuing professional support to promote a positive, prosperous practice.
this job offer is responsible for ensuring the safety of children in foster care and support foster families, and families within the foster care system.


ESSENTIAL tasks AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other tasks may be assigned.
Provide assessment, treatment planning and general counseling for children in foster care.
Provide individual, group, and family therapy to children and families, when needed
Conduct specialized risk assessments
Consult with other staff involved in the care of the child and families
Attend all case related meetings (Counsel on Special Education, Termination of Parental Rights, staff meetings, service provider meetings, emergency meetings, court), for cases they are serving
Participate in formal and informal supervision.
Provide support to children and families through on-call availcapability
Meet regularly in community regarding cases they are seeing for general counseling.
Have regular communication/meeting with birth families around progress/problems of children in care and how to support them in and work towards permanency.
Provide regular case documentation for all children and families on workload including assessments, progress notes, Family Service Plan, etc.
managerY RESPONSIBILITIES
this job offer has no managery responsibilities.
leadership abilities
Provides limited guidance and/or consultation to other staff through direction, review, and feedback on assigned tasks.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Direction: receives guidance with respect to general objectives; in the majority of tasks and projects assigned, determine methods, work sequence, scheduling, and how to achieve objectives of assignments; operate within specific policy guidelines. May require approval before proceeding with next steps.
QUALIFICATIONS
to execute this job prosperously, an individual must be able to execute each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the expertise, skill, and/or capability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to execute the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or practice
Requires a Master's degree; related practice preferred.
CERTIFICATION / LICENSURE
Preferred: Professional licensure: LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, or LMFT.
expertise
Broad expertise of the discipline in which the position will have responsibility with strong technical application expertise of discipline.
COMMUNICATION and CONTACT with OTHERS
Requires effective communication expertise. Communication involves frequent contacts with clients/families, other departments, and individuals in administrative or managerial positions, communicating on information and non-controversial problems within and outside the organization and presenting information and recommendations for solutions. Represents the organization in routine public activities such as making client-related simple presentations or providing information. Interpersonal communication at this level requires effective communication expertise to obtain cooperation or share/receive information which will contribute to decision making.
DECISION MAKING
Work is primarily performed independently and initiative is expected on specific aspects of the work except under unusual circumstances or conditions. Procedural guidance is available. Decisions on routine matters are appropriate at this level.
CONSEQUENCES of ERRORS
Image/Reputation: Errors could cause adverse effect to clients, could cause client- or agency-related image/reputation concerns, inaccurate reports/records, and/or could result in dissemination of inaccurate or incomplete information. Such errors may be detected inside or outside the organization and could result in obligating the organization to take a risk or some financial obligation or loss.
LANGUAGE expertise
capability to read, understand and implement documents such as care instructions, procedure manuals, operating instructions, and safety rules. capability to write routine reports and correspondence. capability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
REASONING capability
capability to deal with practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. capability to interpret a variety of information/instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE and IMPACT
this job offer is not a functional head of a program or department.


FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY
No financial management responsibility.
MATHEMATICAL expertise
capability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. capability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
TECHNOLOGY expertise
Proficient computer expertise including Windows operating environment using MS Office applications. Demonstrated use of intermediate computer operations (basic programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and intermediate software packages, (word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.).
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Work requires 25 - 50% community travel/visits.
Community travel/visits require visits to client homes.
Without notice, may be exposed to any of the following: working extra hours, rotating shifts, or spending the night away in the house.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to prosperously perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to execute the essential functions.
Some physical exertion is required such as long periods of standing, recurring bending and lifting, and/or lifting of items up to 35 pounds and/or may be required to execute physical interventions.
EMPLOYER'S DISCLAIMER
All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only tasks to be performed by the employee occupying this job offer. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to execute any other job-related tasks requested by their manager. Furthermore, the agency reserves the right to add to or revise an employee's job tasks at any time at its sole discretion.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an ?at will? employment relationship.

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