Foster Parent Recruiter - Full-time / Part-time

Louisiana MENTOR

Founded in 2005, Louisiana MENTOR provides foster care services to children with behavioral and emotional challenges. Louisiana MENTOR works collaboratively with the state of Louisiana to provide an array of services and supports to meet the needs of each child.
Description

Louisiana MENTOR is seeking a Foster Parent Recruiter to build and enhance an active network of foster parents through the strategic recruitment and selection process. 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 foster parents.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

The Foster Parent Recruiter primary role is to recruit, select, and submit qualified foster home’s for licensure.

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.

1. To recruit new foster parents into the Louisiana Mentor program through the use of marketing, advertising, educating and training of perspective mentors. This will require travel throughout several regions of the state.

2. Develop and carry out ongoing marketing plan under the direction of the Program Manager and/or Supervisor

3. Will schedule an orientation within 48 hours either in office or in the home of interested foster families. Ensure all persons expressing an interest in becoming foster parent are properly and timely orientated to the program according to opening homes guidelines. The recruiter will not only conduct the orientations both in a group and individual setting, but will also be responsible for the ongoing development of the information given in orientation and the complete follow up on all potential foster families.

4. Develop the scheduling and carrying out of pre-service training for potential families and monthly ongoing training for certified foster parents.

5. Ensure all home study assessments (including psychosocial assessments) are conducted according to established standards, which include giving potential mentors weekly assignments and taking them through the process in no more than 6-8 weeks.

6. This position will ensure that all of the homes opened are in 100% compliance with all standards and are thoroughly evaluated in order to assess the types of services in which the home can provide. This also includes ensuring the homes that are being opened are meeting the needs of the program. Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; preferred one year focus in human services
• Valid driver’s license in good standing
• Car registration and vehicle insurance.
• Successful clearance of local, state and federal background checks
• Excel, Microsoft and Excel experience
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as needed

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