Mentor Recruiter Houston

Texas MENTOR

Founded in 1990, Texas MENTOR provides home and community-based services to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities and emotional and behavioral challenges. Texas MENTOR works collaboratively with the state of Texas to provide an array of services and support, including a Therapeutic Foster Care program and other support services to meet the needs of each child.

Texas MENTOR is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join Texas MENTOR and The MENTOR Network, you’ll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

Every person needs the support of others, but we look for very special people to support children with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as youth with medical, emotional and behavioral challenges.

As a Mentor Recruiter with Texas MENTOR you’ll be one of those special people.

Texas MENTOR is seeking a Mentor Recruiter to build and enhance an active network of Mentors through the strategic recruitment and selection of qualified Mentors. This position will develop and implement recruiting and retention tracking tools and strategies, and measure success of campaign effectiveness, creating and designing new campaigns as needed to continuously attract new Mentors. The primary focus of the position is recruitment.

Foster Parent Recruiter

The Recruiter’s primary role is to build and enhance an active network of Mentor Foster Parents through the recruitment and selection of qualified Mentors. The recruiter will develop and implement a Marketing and Advertising strategy, will conduct Home Study Evaluations, Psychosocial Interviews and Skill Development. A list of essential job functions can be found below. A Bachelor’s degree is required.

SUMMARY

The Recruiter’s primary role is to recruit, select, and submit qualified Mentors for licensure.

· Exercises initiative, discretion and independent judgment in the performance

of assigned tasks.

· Daily local/regional travel required

· Must develop and continually update marketing Plan for recruiting area

· History of meeting/ exceeding goals and marketing background

· Human Service experience preferred

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Creates and executes aggressive marketing plans to increase pool of viable Mentor(Foster Parent) applicants to meet monthly/annual recruitment targets
• Represents the company at events to recruit Mentors(Foster Parents) and holds informational meetings
• Completes the home study process including the Psychosocial Interview and produces written assessment of applicant families
• Records and maintains the statistics necessary to measure the effectiveness of various recruitment efforts
• Assists the Program Director and Intake worker in “client match” meetings for new Mentor homes
• Responsible for the coordination of initial skill development of Mentors (Pre-service)
• Reviews and obtains all contractual paperwork with applicant families
• Develops and maintains professional alliances and relationships that will serve to help recruiting efforts

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree required; preferred focus in human services, marketing or business
• Three years of related experience required
• Other education and experience plus licensure as required by state

Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.

EOE/AAE