Home Finding Coordinator (ORR) (Bilingual Spanish)

Heartshare Human Services Of New York•Brooklyn, NY

About The Position

HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) Nuevo Camino provides unaccompanied minors ages 5–12 with a supportive, nurturing environment through transitional foster homes, weekday education, and wrap-around services in Brooklyn, New York. The program’s services are trauma-informed, culturally appropriate, tailored to each child, and compliant with Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) requirements. Home Finding Coordinators help ensure that each youth in transitional care has a safe, healthy, nurturing foster home. They support compliance with agency, city, state, and federal regulations and maintain accurate documentation. They also support foster families, provide training and guidance, and help them provide loving care for children.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or equivalent.
Two years of similar experience.
Bilingual Spanish proficiency.
Driver’s license.
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 core mission and values, ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners, and commitment to empowering refugees and migrants.

Nice To Haves

Experience in child welfare or case management.
Prior experience working with refugee and/or immigrant populations.

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.
Ensure foster home case record files for assigned homes are complete, accurate, tidy, and audit-ready.
Serve as the point of contact for foster families on the assigned workload.
Support foster parents in meeting challenges and achieving success through participation in administrative meetings, referrals for additional services, or other interventions as necessary.
Obtain 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, 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.