Resource Family Development Recruiter KS

Resource Family Development Recruiter KS

Kansas City KS Office - KANSAS CITY, KS 66102; Leavenworth Office - Leavenworth, KS 66048

Overview

Salary Range $45,000.00 - $50,000.00 Salary/year Position Type Full Time

Description

We are seeking a Resource Family Recruiter to join our team.

Salary Range: $45,000 - $50,000 (Annually)

We are seeking a Resource Family Recruiter to join our team. Your role will advance Cornerstones of Care's mission by cultivating a diverse and committed community of foster families. By building trusted relationships, sharing the story and impact of foster care, and supporting families through training and licensure, this role helps ensure children experience stability, connection, and trauma-informed care in nurturing homes.

As a member of the Kansas Foster Care team, you will work with other team members and report to our Director of Child Placing Agency.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Recruits new foster parents; including completing monthly recruitment plan, scheduling advertising, attending recruitment events and interviewing potential foster parents. May act as a consultant in matching intakes
• To meet and maintain agency strategies and goals as outlined by the Director and Executive Director, ensuring that both program and individual goals and objectives are achieved within prescribed timeframes
• To recruit Foster Family Resources that meet or exceed the quality standards of the program to ensure that every child placed in a Cornerstones of Care licensed foster home for 30 days or more has stability while in foster care
• To schedule and meet with community partners for the purpose of sharing all opportunities of foster care through Cornerstones of Care with an intentional focus on foster care

WHAT YOU WILL BRING:

Our ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of child welfare experience and the following:

• Bachelor's degree required. Bachelor's degree in marketing, communication or other related fields preferred.
• Foster parent experience preferred.
• At least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical, and drug screening
• A valid driver's license in the state you reside in, proof of current vehicle insurance, and reliable transportation.

WHO WE ARE:

Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives. Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas:

• Youth & Family Support We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.
• Foster Care & Adoption We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.
• Education & Community Trainings We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students' behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.

CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS:

• Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose.
• Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills.
• Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.
• Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management.
• Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
• Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships.
• Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.

OUR WIDE STATEMENT:

At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity, feels deeply welcomed, valued, and empowered. We envision a diverse community where inclusion and welcoming are prioritized. A community where all voices are heard, listened to, and respected. A community where everyone's physical, emotional, social, and psychological needs are met. At Cornerstones of Care, we have a vision where equity is not just a goal but is present in all we do; every team member feels empowered to authentically contribute to their fullest potential. We hold a collective commitment to WIDE (welcoming, inclusion, diversity, and equity) that will drive us forward as a stronger organization.

OUR DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

• We partner for safe and healthy communities.
• We cultivate a culture in which children, families, team members, volunteers, donors, and community partners feel welcomed, safe, respected, empowered, and celebrated.
• We value diversity of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, geographical location, pregnancy, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic, and military status.
• We stand for anti-racism, equity, and inclusivity.
• We insist and affirm that discrimination and violence have no place in safe and healthy communities, including in our organization.
• We strive toward a more welcoming, inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization through our policies, partnerships, and practices.

OUR BENEFITS:

Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes:

• 9 Paid Holidays, Unlimited Paid Time Off, and Paid Sick Leave
• Team members who work at least 30 hours per week are eligible for:
  • Health insurance benefits (medical, prescription, dental, vision)
  • Cafeteria plans (Health Savings Account (HSA) and Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts)
  • Ancillary insurance benefits (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term disability insurance, voluntary life)
  • Cornerstones of Care provides long-term disability insurance and basic term life/AD&D insurance at no cost to the team member
• Retirement savings plan (401K) with employer match
• Pet Insurance
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• To view more information on our benefits, please visit our Job Openings page at Join Our Team - Cornerstones of Care to download the current benefits guide.