Position Summary:
Necco has an opportunity for a career as Ongoing Licensing Specialist - Foster Care. This position will add value to the company by recruiting, managing ongoing foster homes, and re-certifying and retaining foster homes to achieve permanence for the children in our care.
You should be accurately described as:
A happy warrior who thrives on leading from the front with strategic thinking. A solid communicator in search of decisions that deliver real results. A problem-solver, financial steward, and one who excels at collaboration. Ridiculously passionate about the company’s success, growth, and program quality.
Recruitment
- Ensuring targeted recruitment to meet current demand by utilizing data
- Carrying out the annual recruitment plan
- Mine existing and prospective parents for referrals
- Establish the Necco brand as a leader in foster care by educating the community and related organizations at events
- Build relationships with foster parents, local businesses, news media, churches, community organizations, and business leaders.
- Use data to collaborate with staff, foster parents, and community-based influencers to develop and implement ongoing recruitment methods
- Ensure the CRM reflects accurate and timely data regarding leads/opportunities and activities
- Utilize CRM to manage follow-up communication with prospective foster parents using phone, email, text, face-to-face, and direct mail
- Ensure inquiry responses are within 24 hours (excludes weekends)
Recertification
- Lead the charge on the recertification process as required by state licensing to include ongoing training, home study process and re-approval to be a foster home
- Maintain knowledge of current state regulations relating to foster homes
- Assess the family for ability to foster throughout the recertification process
- Provide recommendations for needed training in growth areas
- Assist team with steps and actions required for foster home allegations, policy rights violations and/or corrective action (CAPs)
- Participate in the admissions process from youth referral to placement
- Maintain all aspects of the foster parent record in the database
- Ensure all Foster Parent file requirements remain current
Ongoing Training
- Manage all aspects of foster parent ongoing and recertification training
- Ensure training of Hobb’s principles of Re-Education and Necco culture
- Analyze referral declination and provide trainings specific to address
Retention
- Use data to analyze foster home retention rates and develop action plans to address utilization and capacity
- Ensure a support team to foster homes throughout the process and for the children with higher needs
- Lead the charge on foster parent recognition and celebrations
- Lead the team with retention activities for foster families
- Assist in referrals and placements to maximize matching and capacity
Corporate Citizen
- Practice Ruthless Pragmatism
- Engage in peer to peer feedback
- Know and Live the Necco Corporate Culture Principles
- Embody the 3 essential virtues of Humble, Hungry and Smart
- Drive your Individual Performance Scorecard
- Adhere to and contribute to the Necco meeting structure
- Provide (on a rotating schedule) on-call advisory and support to foster families, report and document activities
Position Qualifications
- 21 Years of Age
- Bachelor's Degree in a Human Service-related field. (Ohio Only)
- Bachelor’s Degree in human services or related field (Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana)
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in social work or a related human service field, or a Board of Regents degree with human service concentration, or a bachelor's degree and have completed department-approved training provided by the child placing agency (West Virginia)
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in the human services field
- 100/300/100 Auto Insurance Coverage and Valid Driver’s license
- Experience with Training
- Excellent Computer Skills along with the ability to learn new skills and/or programs
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Successful completion of all required criminal background checks
- Travel/Training Willingness
