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Base Salary: The starting salary at the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition for direct service workers is $56,595.  The Chief Impact Officer position is a supervisory role; therefore, the salary will be commensurate with the position.

Summary of Position

The vision of the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition is For Every Child… A Place to Call Home.

The Coalition is hiring a Chief Impact Officer. This role will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for ensuring an integrated approach to community impact efforts.

The Chief Impact Officer will provide inspirational leadership to develop and implement efforts to advance the agency’s goals, communicate our collective impact to stakeholders, donors, volunteers, and the public, and create systems change via public policy. The position will be part of the Leadership Team. The Chief Impact Officer will oversee Development, Marketing, and Policy, which is engaged in fundraising, community initiatives, advocacy, and communications. The Chief Impact Officer will report to the Executive Director.

This role will maintain a strong knowledge of child welfare issues and will cultivate relationships in the community, providing leadership in developing, promoting, and maintaining solid collaborations with individuals, corporations, foundations, school systems, United Way, other non-profits, and state, federal, and local government partners.

Successful candidates require a commitment to high-functioning partnerships within all areas of the organization, including donor relations, public policy, data analytics, marketing, and community engagement. This position requires a commitment to being data-informed in developing and executing strategies, with clear metrics and outcomes identified.

The Coalition hires individuals:

• Passionate about serving foster/adopted youth and families
• Confident enough to work independently while knowing when to reach out for help
• With the highest level of integrity and flexibility when working both in the office and in the field

Essential Functions:

• Development Team Supervision: Supervise and support the Development Team in the design and implementation of strategies to identify funding sources, annual budget, growth, and development activities. Work directly with the Executive Director and Director of Accounting to plan, review, and revise the agency’s annual development goals.
• Marketing Team Supervision: Supervise the Marketing Director to accomplish the planning, development, and execution of the organization’s marketing and communications initiatives, ensuring they align with the Coalition’s mission, values, and community impact goals.
• Public Policy: Develop and maintain relationships and communication with legislators. Direct organization’s policies and objectives involving government affairs. Lead analysis of proposed legislative actions and develop appropriate responses.
• Community Impact & Engagement: Champion internal and external initiatives, including communicating their connection to the company’s purpose.
• Other functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  • Complete daily activity log.
  • Navigate and use various software packages to obtain, collect, and track program data in a timely manner as required by the funder and/or the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition. This includes but is not limited to Salesforce.
  • Respect and demonstrate understanding for differences, including the ability to interact effectively with individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, and/or socioeconomic status.
  • Be receptive and responsive to training, coaching, supervision, and feedback; work well in a team setting.
  • Respond to communication from stakeholders and professionals in a timely manner.
  • Participate in team and agency meetings and/or individual professional consultations. The majority of these meetings should be attended in person. Follow procedures for meeting with, calling, and consulting the supervisor.

Candidates must have:

• A minimum of 10 years in non-profit leadership or a related field is required.
• Experience in nonprofit development, soliciting and maintaining major gifts, and working with the Board of Directors. Demonstrated ability to work with top-level community leaders and philanthropists.
• Experience in public policy, including influencing legislation and regulations.
• Demonstrated proficiency in community engagement and partnerships.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills, and the experience and proclivity to be a relationship builder.
• Team supervision and leadership.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently.
• Demonstrated ability to fulfill the above job summary, responsibilities, and characteristics.

To Apply

This is a full-time position. Send your resume and cover letter to Melanie Scheetz at melaniescheetz@foster-adopt.org. Applications without a well-written, thoughtful cover letter stating your passion and qualification for serving our population will not be considered. The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Base Salary: $56,595

The Family Works program is an in-home parenting support intervention intended to stabilize and enhance foster, pre and post-adoptive, and guardianship homes at risk of disruption due to the family’s depleted capacity to meet the needs of children impacted by abuse and neglect.

Family Works Specialists have a master’s degree in social work or a related field. They have extensive training and clinical understanding of developmental trauma, neurobiology, attachment, and their impact on foster/adoptive youth and families. Enrolled families have access to support from their Specialists during a crisis. This sometimes occurs after office hours and on weekends.

The program focuses on increasing the caregiver’s capacity to understand, accept, and effectively respond to the behavioral challenges children and youth present. Through this program, caregivers are provided support, skills, validation, and psychoeducation to remain open and engaged with youth, even during challenging behaviors, creating a safe haven for growth and healing.

The program follows the principles of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). It uses strategies and techniques to help the families stabilize and further support the children and youth to develop greater relational skills, increase their sense of personal safety and security, resolve developmental trauma, and facilitate new relationships.

Projected Outcomes:

• 80% of children will remain home or move to a more stable living situation.
• 70% of parents have knowledge, skills, and support for positive parenting (measured by the Brief Parental Self-Efficacy Scale).

The Coalition hires individuals:

• Passionate about serving foster/adopted youth and families
• Confident enough to work independently, while knowing when to reach out for help
• With the highest level of integrity and flexibility when working both in the office and in the field

Essential Functions:

• Utilize knowledge of complex-developmental trauma and attachment-based strategies to educate parents and caregivers about the unique issues surrounding adoption and guardianship, child development, loss, grief, attachment, and trauma
• Identify, collaborate with, and refer to collateral service providers
• Respond to families in crisis situations in an urgent and timely manner
• Provide face-to-face (virtual at this time) child and family interventions
• Partner with families to identify and establish attainable goals and support families to achieve their goals
• See job description for a complete list

Candidates must:

• Hold a Master’s Degree in Counseling or Social Work–LMSW, LCSW, PLPC, or LPC preferred
• Have 2 years of experience providing direct service to clients
• Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet the needs of youth and families—early morning, late afternoon, evening and weekend meetings are planned as needed
• Demonstrate the ability to build rapport and relationship with children and families during face-to-face meetings and phone contact
• Critically assess family and relational functioning in a strengths-based manner
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Exhibit excellent knowledge of community services that support foster/adopt families
• Demonstrated experience working with child welfare teams utilizing innovative strategies to overcome obstacles

This is a full-time position. Send your resume and cover letter to Paula White at paulawhite@foster-adopt.org Applications without a well-written, thoughtful cover letter stating your passion and qualification for serving our population will not be considered. The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Base Salary: $56,595

Summary of Position

The Coalition has partnered with Family Builders to provide their Youth Acceptance Project (YAP) intervention which works with families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ+) and gender-expansive children and youth in foster care. The intervention serves as a family preservation and family reunification tool, assisting families who are struggling with the sexual orientation and/or gender identity/expression of their child. YAP Specialists use a trauma-informed, psycho-educational model to address the misinformation, resistance, fear, and grief that families often experience.

Youth Acceptance Project Specialist provides advocacy and support to families of LGBTQ+ youth in foster care or youth at risk of re-entering foster care from guardianship or adoptions. The Specialist works to achieve permanency by working closely with family and significant others to support and sustain relationships for the youth served by the program. Training, consultation, and collaboration with community partners are essential to the Specialist’s role. Intervention training and ongoing consultation from Family Builders is provided to ensure compliance with the model and provide support.

While the primary focus of this position is serving families under the Youth Acceptance Project, the Specialist may also work in collaboration with the Family Works team to provide an attachment-based intervention to families who do not fit within the guidelines of YAP.

The Coalition hires individuals:

• Passionate about serving foster/adopted youth and families
• Confident enough to work independently while knowing when to reach out for help
• With the highest level of integrity and flexibility when working both in the office and in the field

Essential Functions:

• Works with families and other caregivers of targeted youth to build or rebuild relationships,
  educate and train, and provide other support as needed where there are challenges for family
  members in regard to the youth’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
• Participates in training and consultation provided by Family Builders to utilize the tools and
  resources from the Youth Acceptance Project.
• Identifies, collaborates with, and refers to collateral service providers.
• Communicates with child welfare team about recommendations for placement for youth.
• Partners with family and youth to identify and establish attainable goals and supports families to achieve their goals.
• Conducts family finding and engagement services, including discovery, exploration of files and records, documenting contacts, documenting the quality of relationships, connectedness mapping, and engagement via phone, in-person interviews, and family team meetings. Makes referrals as needed to Family Connections team to provide family finding support.
• Provides consultation to child welfare team regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
• Provides and coordinates training regarding LGBTQ+ youth to professionals, families, providers and caregivers.
• Follows up with youth and family at 30, 60, and 90 days to measure stabilization post-placement and reconnect to resources if needed.
• See job description for a complete list

Candidates must:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling, or related field
• Two years’ work experience in the child welfare field with direct client service contact
• Strong organizational and time management skills and ability to prioritize
• Must be a self-starter, driven, and highly organized
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical abilities
• Highly skilled at recognizing, preventing, and addressing countertransference with clients
• Ability to talk to families who have not been affirming and help them move toward acceptance of their youth’s sexual orientation or gender identity
• Ability to provide LGBTQ+ training to families and professionals

To Apply

This is a full-time position. Send your resume and cover letter to Paula White at paulawhite@foster-adopt.org Applications without a well-written, thoughtful cover letter stating your passion and qualification for serving our population will not be considered. The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Base Salary: $56,595

Summary of Position

The Office Administrator ensures that the office operates smoothly and efficiently by organizing and coordinating administration and procedures to ensure organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and safety and to create an organized, pleasant environment for staff and guests.  At the Coalition, the successful Office Administrator is an energetic professional who:

• Doesn’t mind wearing multiple hats.
• Is experienced in handling a wide range of administrative duties and work independently.
• Is a self-starter, a problem solver, and passionate about helping others.
• Is well organized, flexible, and enjoys the administrative challenges of supporting an office of diverse people.

This position is based out of the Coalition’s offices at 1750 S. Brentwood Boulevard, Brentwood, MO 64144 and works in the office 100%.    

The Coalition hires individuals:

• Passionate about serving foster/adopted youth and families
• Confident enough to work independently while knowing when to reach out for help
• With the highest level of integrity and flexibility when working both in the office and in the field

Essential Functions:

• Creates an office atmosphere that is welcoming and hospitable, greeting visitors, answering incoming phone calls, and directing them to relevant staff, and delivering excellent customer service to staff and clients.
• Serves as the point person for maintenance, mailing, shipping, supplies, equipment, bills, and errands.
• Ensures office operations and procedures are organized and standardized, written, and verbal correspondences are controlled, and filing systems are designed, maintained, and current.
• Partners with HR to create and/or maintain office policies and orientate new hires.
• Provides documentation and staff training regarding agency operations.
• Coordinates with IT office equipment needs, fulfillment, and maintenance.
• Manages relationships with vendors, service providers, landlords, and facilities management.
• Assists with various financial and budgeting tasks.
• Establishes and implements procedures for document protection, retention, retrieval, and destruction.
• Oversees office layout and room reservations.
• Creates and maintains a clean, safe, and clutter-free office.
• Assigns and monitors administrative tasks among the staff.
• Ensures the security, integrity, and confidentiality of documents.
• Monitors and maintains office supplies inventory.
• Helps the agency achieve Council on Accreditation standards.
• Respects and demonstrates understanding for differences including the ability to interact effectively with individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, and socioeconomic status.
• …and more.

Candidates must:

• 5 years of work experience in an administrative/office management role,
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, and ability to prioritize.
• Must be a self-starter, driven, and highly organized.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to produce reports, assign tasks, accept instructions, and handle vendor contracts, among other tasks.
• Organization and the ability to multitask.
• Flexibility to support the agency through rapid growth.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact positively with all employees.
• Leadership ability to manage challenges.
• Attention to detail to ensure tasks are completed thoroughly and correctly.

To Apply

This is a full-time position. Send your resume and cover letter to Quintella Ivory at recruiting@foster-adopt.org. Applications without a well-written, thoughtful cover letter stating your passion and qualification for serving our population will not be considered. The Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition is an Equal Opportunity Employer.