Foster Care Marketing, Recruitment And Retention Specialist

Are you goal driven and seeking an opportunity that provides opportunities for intrinsic rewards . We have a position for you that provides both, while helping others to provide a nurturing, safe, and supportive home for their children.

Better Living is a company that prides itself on providing employees with a positive work environment, career advancement opportunities, and loyalty. If so, Better Living is the place for you! Better Living strives to be the best for our employees and our employees strive to be the best for the clients that we are serving. Better Living helps give hope and guidance to children and families within the child welfare system throughout Nebraska.

Better Living is currently hiring a Foster CareRecruitment and Retention Specialist (FCRRS). This position will start no later than January 3, 2024.

The starting pay for this position is $21.75 or $45,240. This position also has a performance bonus plan that can earn at least $3,000 annually or more. Bonus amount will be dictated by the individual's performance and outcomes achieved.

Under the direction of the Better Living Program Director, the Foster CareRecruitment and Retention Specialist's (FCRRS) main function is to recruit and expand the number of licensed homes affiliated with Better Living by using assertive marketing strategies. The FCRRS completes job activities that promote the expansion of foster homes available to meet placement needs, ensure foster families have the skills and resources needed to meet the complex needs of youth in care. The FCRRS will also coordinate events and activities that promote and recognize foster families for the challenging work they undertake when children are placed in their home. The FCRRS schedules, plans, facilitates, and evaluates the success of regularly scheduled foster parent recruitment events throughout the Better Living service areas and provides follow up and guidance to prospective foster parents to achieve the goal of increasing the number of licensed homes available for youth needing out of home care in all placement tiers. The FCRRS will also solicit, coordinate, and manage tasks of other Foster Care employees who provide assistance at company sponsored Foster Care events.

This position is also responsible for the creation of social media posts, posting of Better Living website blogs, and other advertising efforts to promote the Foster Care program. The FCRRS will be required to maintain records of recruitment, training, and Retention events as well as foster parenting inquiries with timely follow-up to ensure prospective foster parents achieve licensure and placement of youth in their homes. The FCRRS assists, when assigned by the Program Director, with the licensure and ongoing skill development of foster parents by planning and organizing ongoing training opportunities to include TIPS-MAPP training, follow-up training post initial training, and ongoing training for all foster families on the complex needs of children in care. The FCRRS will uphold Better Living policies, procedures, and standards; abide by Foster Care contractual and licensure obligations; and fostering cooperative working relationships with all company employees, outside agencies, referral sources, clients, and local businesses. All employees are expected to comply with Better Living policies and procedures and uphold the mission, vision, and values of the company.

Qualifications and Requirements: Time/Schedule Requirements:

• This position is a full-time position that requires 40 hours of work each week.
• Due to the nature of the position, hours of work will include some weekends and evenings.
• Cold calling, candidate sourcing, social media marketing/influencer outreach, talent acquisition, tracking systems and organization are required.
• Sourcing advertising avenues and creating advertisements is also required along with tracking the success rate of each method used.
• Maintain spending records and work within the allocated budget determined by the Program Director.
• While this position has some flexibility for the work week, the FCRRS will maintain and report their weekly schedule to the Program Director.
• Traveling to all areas served by Better Living is essential.
• The position will be supervised out of the Lincoln office which is where the FCRRS will be located.

Education/Certification Requirements:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in marketing and/or a human service-related field from an accredited institution.
• Possess a current and valid driver's license with no limitations that would interfere with safe driving.
• Maintain the minimum vehicle liability and medical coverage as required by law.

Experience Requirements:

• 2 or more years of marketing or sales experience preferred.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a marketing field (sales, branding, product promotion, advertising, public relations, recruitment, marketing, business administration, etc.)
• Clear understanding use of all social media platforms.
• Have knowledge or be willing to learn about the Nebraska Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice systems and the Foster Care system.
• Experience in Recruitment and/or training of adult learners preferred.

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