Position Description:

This part time position is responsible to recruit and build supportive and nurturing relationships with adoptive families. This person will be responsible for processing and maintaining aspects of adoption files. Schedule will fluctuate with some evening and weekends up to 20 hours weekly.

Key Tasks

Adoptive Family tasks:
- Recruit adoptive families, accept incoming calls and internet inquiries, and screen adoptive couples
- Network with and educate four community contacts per month regarding Catholic Charities Adoption Services
- Provide monthly orientation and training for prospective and current adoptive families as well as current foster care families
- Able to conduct Adoption and Foster Care Home Studies after appropriate training
- Input client information into ETO, client information database
- Work with assigned Social Worker that will complete the Adoption Home Study and/or Post Placement Reports
- Complete and distribute monthly census and reports
- Maintain adoptive family files, record all interactions
- Ability to meet standards to conduct an Adoption Home Study to comply with licensing and state laws after appropriate training
- Coordinate, train and provide follow up services for volunteers
- Maintain all aspects of the adoptive family support group, including scheduling of meetings, guest speaker selection, childcare reservations, and meeting notifications
- Maintain any certification or licensing standards
- Participate in in-service training and departmental and organizational staff meetings
- Maintain compliance with all of CC policies, procedures and requirements, state and federal laws, and agency guidelines and regulatory guidelines

Key Skills

- Able to articulate Catholic teaching
- Bachelor’s degree required; involves ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw conclusions dealing with abstract variables. Experience preferred, not required
- Able to work with moderate supervision with awareness that error may have serious consequences. Exercises patience, prayer, initiative and confidentiality
- Ability to drive assigned vehicle with appropriate state license, following all laws; must be able to be insured under Catholic Charities fleet insurance policy
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Problem solving and decision making abilities
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and responsibilities and meet deadlines
- Able to prepare and read data and figures, client records, reports, visual inspection involving small details - Computer literate including knowledge of Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel
- Must be able to bend, stoop, lift, stand or sit for long periods of time

Key Attributes

- Commitment to the mission and vision of Catholic Charities
- Detailed and organized
- Self-motivated and self starter
- Attuned to meeting the client needs and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with other employees and the public
- Team player, and able to work on own initiative
- Professional and positive approach