Job Details
Job Location
Webster Groves – Webster Groves, MO
Position Type
Full Time
Salary Range
$39,000.00 – $42,000.00 Salary/year
Travel Percentage
Up to 50%
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
A Resource Development Specialist performs services to ensure that foster/relative parents are trained, licensed, and re-licensed within a specified time frame. The Resource Development Specialist finds alternative care placements for children with a primary focus on permanency, and safety for the child.
FamilyForward is committed to upholding the Organizational Health Anchors that we have set for the agency, including safety; mindfulness and self-regulation; relational health; cultural diversity, inclusivity, equity, and anti-racism; clinical lens; vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.
What puts FamilyForward Out Front:
- Strong peer support with a focus on teamwork
- Gat paid to change lives and reshape communities
- Paid time-off for Agency Wellness Week (December 25th to December 31st annually)
- Emphasis on professional learning, growth, and development
How we wholeheartedly take care of our people:
- Competitive pay & benefits package includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- Optional short-term disability
- Virtual medical and mental health care coverage
- Employee Assistance Program counseling services
- Pre-tax medical Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Reimbursement Account for deductible expenses over $1000 individual; $2000 for families
- 3% dollar for dollar company-matched 403(b) retirement savings account
- Company-paid long-term disability and life insurance
- 10 paid holidays, including 2 floating holidays for religious/cultural celebrations
- Wellness Week paid time off December 25th 31st annually
- Paid vacation time and health and wellness leave
- Education assistance program
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligible employer
- National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Eligible Site
- Member and active participant in the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce
- Diversity Awareness Partnership Non-Profit Partner
What to expect on a given day as a Resource Development Specialist:
- You will develop community resources to assist foster and adoptive parents.
- You will attend community activities to promote foster care and recruitment as needed which often includes after hours events.
- You will perform pre-service responsibilities including initial screening, home study assessment, and completion of all related forms in compliance of policies of CPP/FF, COA, and CD for foster/relative licensure.
- You will complete re-licensing requirements for foster, and relative parents within specified time frames.
- You will meet FamilyForwards annual goal for number of licensed foster parents, and assist with the on-going retention of foster parents
- You will provide and train STARS curriculum for traditional foster parents, and relative foster parents, and /or other pre-service training
- You will provide monthly training, and support groups for foster parents, and kinship parents.
- You will visit providers at least once per quarter or more if necessary.
- You may participate on an afterhours rotational on-call, and office intake.
- You will complete 20 hours of annual training, 3 hours of which will be in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
- As with all positions this is not an all-inclusive list of duties or projects that you will be asked to perform.
You would be a good fit for this position if you:
- Have a bachelors degree in an area such as: social work, or a comparable human service field preferably with 2 years experience; masters degree preferred
- Have a minimum of 1-year professional employment in the delivery of proactive social services, family preservation services, or targeted case management services in a public or private agency.
- Have demonstrated experience as a positive contributor in a close team, community relationship, and with community resource mobilization.
- Have a valid drivers license, personal automobile, and valid automobile insurance.
Salary Expectations:
Dependent on experience and education, starting salary is $40,000