Ongoing Licensing Specialist

Ongoing Licensing Specialist

Necco has an opportunity for a career as an Ongoing Licensing Specialist. This position will add value to the company by recruiting, managing ongoing foster homes, and re-certifying and retaining foster homes to achieve permanence for the children in our care.

You should be accurately described as: A happy warrior who thrives on leading from the front with strategic thinking. A solid communicator in search of decisions that deliver real results. A problem-solver, financial steward, and one who excels at collaboration. Ridiculously passionate about the company's success, growth, and program quality.

The candidate selected will be responsible for the following:

Recruitment

• Ensuring targeted recruitment to meet current demand by utilizing data
• Carrying out the annual recruitment plan
• Mining existing and prospective parents for referrals
• Establishing the Necco brand as a leader in foster care by educating the community and related organizations at events
• Building relationships with foster parents, local businesses, news media, churches, community organizations, and business leaders.
• Using data to collaborate with staff, foster parents, and community-based influencers to develop and implement ongoing recruitment methods
• Ensuring the CRM reflects accurate and timely data regarding leads/opportunities and activities
• Utilizing CRM to manage follow-up communication with prospective foster parents using phone, email, text, face-to-face, and direct mail
• Ensuring inquiry responses are within 24 hours (excludes weekends)

Recertification

• Leading the charge on the recertification process as required by state licensing to include ongoing training, home study process and re-approval to be a foster home
• Maintaining knowledge of current state regulations relating to foster homes
• Assessing the family for ability to foster throughout the recertification process
• Providing recommendations for needed training in growth areas
• Assisting team with steps and actions required for foster home allegations, policy rights violations and/or corrective action (CAPs)
• Participating in the admissions process from youth referral to placement
• Maintaining all aspects of the foster parent record in the database
• Ensuring all Foster Parent file requirements remain current

Ongoing Training

• Managing all aspects of foster parent ongoing and recertification training
• Ensuring training of Hobb's principles of Re-Education and Necco culture
• Analyzing referral declination and providing trainings specific to address

Retention

• Using data to analyze foster home retention rates and develop action plans to address utilization and capacity
• Ensuring a support team to foster homes throughout the process and for the children with higher needs
• Leading the charge on foster parent recognition and celebrations
• Leading the team with retention activities for foster families
• Assisting in referrals and placements to maximize matching and capacity

Corporate Citizen

• Practicing Ruthless Pragmatism
• Engaging in peer to peer feedback
• Knowing and Living the Necco Corporate Culture Principles
• Embodying the 3 essential virtues of Humble, Hungry and Smart
• Driving your Individual Performance Scorecard
• Adhering to and contributing to the Necco meeting structure
• Providing (on a rotating schedule) on-call advisory and support to foster families, report and document activities

Position Qualifications

• Minimum of 21 years of age
• Bachelor's Degree in a Human Service-related field. (Ohio Only)
• Bachelor's Degree in human services or related field (Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana)
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in social work or a related human service field, or a Board of Regents degree with human service concentration, or a bachelor's degree and have completed department-approved training provided by the child placing agency (West Virginia)
• A minimum of 2 years' experience in the human services field
• 100/300/100 Auto Insurance Coverage and Valid Driver's license
• Experience with Training
• Excellent Computer Skills along with the ability to learn new skills and/or programs
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Successful completion of all required criminal background checks
• Travel/Training Willingness

At Necco, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable work environment. We embrace individuals of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that a diverse team fosters innovation and creativity, and we actively seek candidates from all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and ages to join our organization. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for employment and advancement to all qualified individuals, and we encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.

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