Home Finding Coordinator (ORR) (Bilingual Spanish)
About The Position
HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services’ Nuevo Camino program supports 38 unaccompanied minors ages 5–12 in transitional foster homes in Brooklyn, New York. The program provides a supportive, nurturing environment, weekday education, and wraparound services. Service delivery is trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, tailored to each child, and compliant with Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) requirements. Home Finding Coordinators help ensure that youth in transitional care have safe, healthy, nurturing foster homes. They support foster families, provide training and guidance, and ensure that agency, city, state, and federal requirements are followed and accurately documented.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or equivalent.
- Two years of similar experience.
- Bilingual Spanish required.
- Valid driver’s license required.
- Stable judgment and sensitivity to diverse cultures and the unique histories of refugees.
- Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
- Ability to succeed in a fast-paced work environment.
- Commitment to Nuevo Camino’s mission and values, including modeling those values in relationships with colleagues and partners and empowering refugees and migrants.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in child welfare or case management strongly preferred.
- Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations preferred.
Responsibilities
- Complete detailed, accurate, and timely written reports for assigned homes, including annual reauthorization narratives, home studies for newly trained and kinship homes, and addenda as needed.
- Maintain complete, accurate, tidy, and audit-ready foster home case record files for all homes on the assigned workload.
- Serve as the point of contact for foster families on the assigned workload.
- Assist and support foster parents in meeting challenges and achieving success through administrative meetings, referrals for additional services, or other interventions as needed.
- Complete training and certification to deliver required foster parent training, and deliver that training as requested.
- Participate in required ORR–Nuevo Camino training in accordance with federal and state mandates.
Benefits
- Paid vacation, sick, and personal days, and holidays.
- 403(B) retirement plan with employer contribution.
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible spending accounts for dependent care, medical, parking, and transit.
- Employee appreciation programs and events.
- Tuition assistance program.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Wellhub discount.
- Verizon Wireless discount.
- BJ’s membership discount.
- Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates, and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
