About the Role:

The Resource Family Specialist is responsible for actively recruiting qualified resource family applicants in the community and supporting and encouraging existing resource families through innovative and extraordinary measures that promote cooperation, encouragement, and teamwork.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Report to the Program Office Supervisor.
• Learn, understand, accept, and implement agency policy, applicable laws, and regulations.
• Manage prospective resource family inquiries and contact families in a timely fashion.
• Introduce families to resource parenting and the policies and practices the agency
• Prepare required reports and accompanying paperwork in a timely fashion and submit them to the respective supervisor in a completed format.
• Manage monthly advertising to recruit families by the needs of the program office.
• Attend community events to share and educate constituents of the agency’s purpose as well as recruit for prospective resource families.
• Attend required meetings, conferences, trainings, and other agency functions, as required.
• Assist and support resource families in developing relationships that will promote a safe, welcoming environment.
• Maintain complete, clear, comprehensive, neat, and organized family records in compliance with policies and regulations.
• Assure that all necessary measures are taken in preparing and supporting a resource family to provide for the safety and welfare of a child or children as would a parent.

· Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred in the human service field
• Eligibility under current PA legal and regulatory requirements
• Valid PA Driver’s License
• PA Child Abuse Clearance, PA State Police Clearance, PA FBI Clearance
• Sensitivity to service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics

Physical Requirements:

The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk, sit, and perform keyboard entry. Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner and maintain the standard of care that is appropriate for this position. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

This is a non-exempt/hourly position.

"Families United Network is proud to be an equal opportunity employer."

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Mileage reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Scranton, PA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person