Reports to: Evaluation Manager
Job Location: Hybrid
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Retirement, Paid Time Off, Holidays
Date Posted: October 2023
To apply: please contact Susie Cummings at Scion Staffing at susie@scionstaffing.com

Overview of Kinnect
Kinnect is a private non-profit that was founded in 2005. Kinnect leverages its leadership
expertise to design programs, products and services that transforms the child welfare system.
Kinnect leads innovation to reduce the time that children spend in the child welfare system and
to prevent entry into the child welfare system. Kinnect achieves this by partnering with
organizations to transform beliefs, values and actions to ensure permanent families for all
children in the shortest time possible. We believe that childhood is a fundamental human right
and that all children deserve permanent families. We believe that every day that a child is in
foster care, separated from their kin and community is a day in crisis. We embrace hope,
possibility and innovation and we treat everyone with dignity and respect.

Overview of the Kinnect to Family Program (KTF) & Youth Centered Permanency Roundtable
(YCPRT)
Kinnect to Family is a specialized, intense, family search and engagement program. Diligent
search strategies are used to identify a vast array of connections for children and families
encountering child welfare. We empower kinship caregivers and wrap them in stabilizing
supports using relentless effort, focus and determination. As with all Kinnect programs, we
embrace family to be defined as biological, adoptive, foster and all other kin and persons who
have meaningful relationships with the family of origin; such as neighbors, coaches, and lifelong
friends. We believe all children have caring and capable extended families that are willing to
help raise their kin when needed. With the right tools and engagement, families can be united
together to support one another through kinship care.

Youth Centered Permanency Roundtables is a structured professional case consultation that
partnerships with professionals and youth supports to promote youth voice and focus during
their journey to permanency. YCPRTs generally serve youth 12 years and old who have been in
the custody of a Public Children Services Agency (PCSA) for more than 12 months. This
reoccurring service strives to increase connections for youth and increase the timeliness to
their permanency while promoting team effort, creativity, and accountability.

Position Summary
The Data Coordinator is a full-time position dedicated to providing data and evaluation support
to the Kinnect to Family and YCPRT Programs. The Data Coordinator reports to the Evaluation
Manager. The primary functions of this role include maintaining database records, reviewing
data in real time, and ensuring that standards of model fidelity are reported on and supported.
This role includes a variety of organizational functions and data collection tasks to support
program and agency operations through administrative support, coordination,
communications, and managing records. The Data Coordinator will be responsible for tracking
information through the use of spreadsheets and online database tools, and maintaining
professional relationships with external vendors and contractors.

Essential Functions

Provide consistent data support on an individual, team, and programmatic basis.
Perform real-time quality control review of electronic data.
Capture quality metrics and escalate trends to management for continuous quality

improvement.
Communicate and collaborate across team to address and clarify data discrepancies.
Assist with scheduling and carrying out fidelity reviews.
Assist with report preparation and review as needed.
Support data trainings and data related meetings through tasks such as the creation and

maintenance of presentations, reports and supplemental documents.
Identify gaps in information
Perform other responsibilities assigned by the Evaluation Manager.

Guiding Principles and Competencies:

Partnership: Bringing our collective experience and skillsets to relationships that support our
connectedness and achievement of our mission.

• I build constructive and effective relationships to find common ground and solve problems
• When I participate in teamwork, I will ensure that I am giving everyone accurate and timely

team

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA): As a learning organization, we pledge to ongoing
and sustained work in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility through collaboration with
families, communities, Kinnect team members and our partners.

• I pause for self-reflection and to analyze my own assumptions, behaviors, and

• I take responsibility for my own growth and development in this space (i.e. selfeducation

• I am willing to speak up if I witness exclusionary behaviors, bias, and discrimination
• I give other’s grace in our learning journeys, we give each other time to process, and we

inclusion and accessibility through collaboration with families, youth, communities, Kinnect
team members and partners

Innovation: Continuous and dynamic process where creative ideas are valued, discussed, and
implemented to significantly disrupt routing and prevailing structures.

• I am willing to share my ideas, even the new and unique ones, when brainstorming,

• I explore issues through a lens of equity and inclusion by co-creating solutions with people,

• When faced with challenges, I remain curious, look beyond the obvious and my own lens

• I choose to view failure as an opportunity to learn

Integrity: Having the courage to live the Kinnect values of dignity, respect and honesty.

• I strive to be self-aware and open to feedback that allows for development and growth
• I stay aligned with Kinnect’s values while maintaining flexibility to incorporate new ideas

meaningfully in my work at Kinnect

Outcome Focused: We strive to measure our work, to pivot, iterate, and improve to accomplish
desired results.

• I make time and space to assess process, progress, and results
• I work with my team to make sure we all have up-to-date information so we can make

• I keep families, youth, community partners and Kinnect team members in mind when

Communicate Effectively: Develop and deliver communications using various methods that
conveys a clear understanding of the unique needs of the different audiences we communicate
with.

• Attentively listens to others
• Provides timely and helpful information to others across the organization
• Encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions
• Ability to utilize multiples communication methods such as telephone, email, letters,

reports, to name a few to share information and to keep people informed of progress or
what is needed

Critical Thinking for Managing Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity and
sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• Ask questions that will help accurately analyze situations
• Acquire data from multiple and diverse sources to help solve problems and to innovate

Skills and Competencies:

Strong written and verbal communication
Organization and time management skills with the ability to meet multiple program

deadlines and manage multiple tasks
Database administration and technology skills
Strong attention to deal
Adaptation, flexibility, and dependability
Teamwork, initiative, and problem solving
Ability to use customer service initiatives to work with partner sites

Education/Qualification:

Bachelor’s Degree preferred; Information Technology, Computer Science, or related
field, preferred.

2 years professional experience working with databases
Proficient in Excel and data visualization tools
Demonstrated experience working with teams utilizing strategies to overcome obstacles
Experience developing and maintaining reporting dashboards

Inclusion Diversity, Equity, and Access:

Kinnect is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of inclusion diversity,
equity, and access. These commitments are not just part of our value system but are at the core
of our intentional actions to eliminate systemic barriers that have produced inequities based on
differences.

We commit to a sustained investment of time, resources, and people to advance equitable
realities for our employees, and for the children, families, and communities that we serve. We
do this by intentional advocacy for social justice and the continuous scrutiny of the systems that
we create and those in which we operate.

Our employees are the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual
differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and
talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our
culture, but our reputation and success, as well.

We embrace our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital
status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and intellectual or
emotional ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation or identity, socio-
economic status, parental or family status, medical or genetic status, veteran or disabled
veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Kinnect’s inclusion, diversity, equity, and access initiatives involve, but are not limited to, our
practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional
development and training; promotions; transfers; staffing decisions; terminations; and the
ongoing development of an inclusive work environment.

Equal Opportunity Employment: Kinnect maintains a policy of nondiscrimination toward all
employees and applicants for employment. All aspects of employment with us will be governed
on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race,
color, religion, gender, or gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, sexual
expression or identity, national origin, physical, intellectual or emotional ability, marital or
partnership status, parental or family status, medical or genetic status, veteran’s or disabled
veteran status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing
nondiscrimination in employment. Employment Posters stating current regulatory and legal
requirements are posted in Kinnect’s main office and on the intranet.

Working Conditions:

• Travel required, as needed. Must have access to own transportation. Available to work a

• This job requires occasional overnight travel

• Kinnect as an organization has a Hybrid Work Model that combines remote and on-site work

• This role will utilize standard office equipment that will be provided by Kinnect

Hiring Process:

Background Check Information: The final candidate selected for the position will be required to
undergo a criminal background check. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an
applicant from consideration for a position. An individual assessment of an applicant's prior
criminal conviction(s) will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of
work to be performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all
responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.

Kinnect maintains a policy of nondiscrimination toward all employees and applicants for
employment. All employment decisions at Kinnect are based on organizational needs, job
requirements and individual qualifications, and will be governed on the basis of competence
and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, or
gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, sexual expression or identity, national
origin, physical, intellectual or emotional ability, marital or partnership status, parental or
family status, medical or genetic status, veteran’s or disabled veteran status, in accordance with
applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
Employment Posters stating current regulatory and legal requirements are posted in Kinnect’s
main office and on the intranet.

American’s with Disabilities Act: This position involves sitting in a stationary position for at
least 50% of the time and the ability to ambulate without assistance to attend on-site meetings,
as needed. The job requires movement in a typical office environment with file cabinets, office
machinery, office furniture and typical hallway and access doorways. The position must operate
typical office equipment, such as copiers, telephones, computers and peripherals. This job
requires that the person must have the ability to access transportation to attend meetings and
special events. The organization provides reasonable accommodations for this position.