What are the responsibilities and job description for the Administrative Assistant, Kids Net position at Eliot Community Human Services?
Together we can make a difference.
Eliot is committed to employee growth & retention by offering a comprehensive total rewards package including but not limited to:
- 75% Company Contribution to Medical and Dental Insurance
- 12 Paid Holidays, 15 to 20 Vacation Days Annually, 12 Sick Days Annually
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
- 100% Company-Paid Life & Accidental Death Insurance
- 100% Company Paid Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- $3000 Employee Referral Bonus
- $3000 Annual Tuition/Professional Development Reimbursement
- Opportunities for growth internally within our 100 programs across Massachusetts
- Comprehensive Staff Orientation, Training Programs & Professional Development Assistance
- FSA, Dependent Care, transportation reimbursement
MSPCC a division of Eliot is seeking an Administrative Assistant and is someone who has demonstrated administrative and reception experience. Bilingual Preferred.
Kid’s Net provides a range of services to connect foster and kinship families to the information, resources, respite, and support networks they need to address the unique challenges that come with raising foster children. Kid’s Net engages foster families through trainings, support groups, as well as recreational experiences that families enjoy together. Kid’s Net supports the Massachusetts Alliance For Families (MAFF), an organization of foster parents who advocate for the rights of foster children and families.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to informational calls regarding the Kid’s Net Program and direct to appropriate person.
- Respond to calls from DCF foster parents requesting child care, collecting all pertinent information about the family, child and the dates and times needed.
- Forward all referrals to the Child Care Circuit.
- Document the confirmation receipt when providers have been identified, notify families of the confirmations and details.
- Respond to calls from foster parents or the DCF family resource unit notifying Kid’s Net of a need for respite for a particular foster family.
- Discuss respite request with DCF to ensure that there is a family identified to provide the services.
- Request written referral form be completed by DCF including the identifying information and their confirmation that the family providing the respite has a recent CORI check.
- Enter all data in Kid’s Net database.
- Formally request payment from Accounts Payable when signed document is returned.
- Set up tracking system to ensure that all contracts are returned for payment.
- Notify DCF family resource worker when three requests have been sent out to the family with no response.
Compensation: $18.75/hr.
Schedule: Full time: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
Education
Preferred- High School or better
Skills
Preferred- Bilingual
Salary : $3,000
