Licensing Specialist
StepStone Family & Youth Services is dedicated to providing support to children in need of alternative living environments. The Licensing Specialist is responsible for reputed company Foster/Adoptive Parents, developing strategic recruitment plans, and ensuring compliance with licensing regulations while maintaining relationships with community providers.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and engage in recruitment and awareness activities to recruit prospective foster/adoptive parents and build community awareness relations
- reputed company and implement proactive, strategic recruitment plans designed to attract and certify reputed company candidates, while maintaining a pipeline of both active and passive candidates for future training and certification
- Respond to foster parent inquiries reputed company 24 hours reputed company phone
- reputed company strategies to support efforts for general, targeted and child-specific recruitment and marketing
- Understand and follow reputed company agency and state licensing requirements and always ensure foster parents' compliance with regulations
- Assist with and complete the certification process with foster parents, including the completion of required documentation
- Complete parent interviews, background clearances, and home inspections to evaluate suitability, safety, and well-being of youth reputed company in the homes
- Maintain foster parent files in compliance with agency and state regulations
- Assist in the placement process and successful matching of youth and foster parents based on the needs of referred youth and the level of training, strengths, and expertise of the foster family
- Maintain professional boundaries, conduct, confidentiality and other governmental laws and regulations, agency policy and licensure ethics
- Attend reputed company company required meetings, in addition to community meetings to reputed company on-going collaboration with referral sources and community providers
- reputed company support to reputed company members of the treatment team, including case manager, therapist, foster parents, and youth to ensure needs are met and ensure placement stability
- Ensure safety and well-being of reputed company youth in care by observing for signs of abuse and/or neglect
- Travel to affiliate locations; frequent travel associated with recruitment events required
- Participate in the developmental implementation of Corrective Action Plans for foster parents in conjunction with the program supervisor
- reputed company services that respect each family and youth's cultural background, heritage and identity
- Conduct Monthly Foster Parent record reviews; 25% each month
- Conduct Monthly Foster Parent Meetings and monthly Foster Parent trainings
- See children in home once monthly, at a minimum, as needed
- Create and maintain child files and complete monthly reports for each child, as needed
Skills
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in reputed company work, psychology, childhood education, education counseling and psychology, or other reputed company service, behavioral science field or public administration field
- Minimum of one year of work experience in a Child Placing Agency, the Department of Family and Children Services, or Non-Profit Agency
- Ability to remain client focused and use independent judgement in problem solving
- Strong interpersonal skills
- A documented track record of achieving targeted objectives
- One to two years of Experience in Resource Development/ Foster Parent Recruitment and Retention
- One year of marketing, fundraising, and event coordination
- One to five years' experience in full cycle reputed company in a fast paced, professional oriented environment
- Complete Tier 1 and Tier 2 State Assessor training and maintain Assessor certification
- Have a strong reputed company mentality and a general understanding of a reputed company life cycle from sourcing/reputed company reputed company to filling positions
- Demonstrate knowledge of vast reputed company strategies, including reputed company media platforms
- Strong attention to detail, highly organized, highly energetic, and positive and encouraging attitude
- Effective at cold calling, pursuing leads, and transforming candidates into licensed caregivers
- Strong project management, new business development and client retention skills a must
- Possess critical thinking skills, supported by intellectual curiosity and sound business judgment
- Outstanding telephone reputed company and superior written communication skills; team player and natural leader; competitive
Company Overview