Engagement Specialist

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• Develops a fiscal year recruitment plan\
• Requires statewide coordination of foster parent recruitment and
  
  

retention\

• Provides monthly updates to the recruitment plan and monthly report on
  
  

activities\

• Recruits foster and adoptive families through speaking engagements,
  
  

community awareness events and building community

partnerships/relationships\

• Coordinates and collaborates with CPA staff to conduct recruitment
  
  

activities\

• Maintains visible, productive working relationships with community
  
  

partners\

• Participates in team meetings, including CPA all-staff meetings,
  
  

Recruitment Team meetings as well as other internal meetings as needed\

• Attends DCF Diligent Recruitment meetings and aligns with target areas
  
  

for recruitment including foster families to support teenagers that

display significant behavior/needs\

• Averages recruitment of one new family a month that serves high-needs
  
  

youth, 12 families serving high-needs youth per year\

• Develops resources for recruitment activities\
• Assists administration by linking and coordinating foster families and
  
  

staff with needed community resources, events and services statewide\

• Fosters positive relationships with staff and foster families with the
  
  

intention of reducing barriers of those we serve\

• Provides individual assistance to staff and foster families to access
  
  

and utilize community resources\

• Assesses, documents and monitors utilization of resources, events and
  
  

services\

• Serves as a liaison between staff and resources to promote a
  
  

collaborative process in accessing resources\

• Communicate and updates resources statewide in partnership with the
  
  

Communications team utilizing the website, Facebook, Mailchimp and other

technologies\

• Updates and tracks information on DonorPerfect software\
• Coordinates with other DCCCA programs to ensure efficiencies and
  
  

effectiveness\

• Coordinates with CPA to host DCCCA events including Foster Parent
  
  

Appreciation, support groups, and other activities\

• Requires travel and work hours to include evenings and weekends\
• Maintains regular contact with supervisor\
• Creates a safe environment by performing all required security and
  
  

safety procedures\

• Assists in orientation to program rules/structure and regulations\
• Requires the ability to maintain strict confidentiality\
• Job may require the employee to be able to regularly drive to various
  
  

DCCCA locations and other business locations throughout the state that

can include early morning and evening traveling hours\

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