Bilingual Licensing Coordinator - JOR

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The Foster Home Licensing Coordinator for NYAP’s La Jornada (The Journey) Program is responsible for licensing foster homes for short-term transitional foster care. The Foster Home Licensing Coordinator is responsible for licensing, re-licensing, and retention of quality foster homes and ensuring licensed homes meet or exceed bed capacity in the assigned location. Bachelor’s Degree required Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

The Foster Home Licensing Coordinator for La Jornada will perform duties including, but not limited to: 

• Actively support, represent, and extend the mission, vision, and values of the organization. 
• Responsible for conducting home studies, assisting foster parents in completing licensing applications, initiating background check process, and delivering all required foster parent training in a timely manner. 
• Work closely with the Foster Parent Recruiter in a collaborative capacity to accommodate foster parents’ licensing and documentary needs, identify and overcome licensing barriers. 
• Develop a comprehensive home study for each potential family and submit for approval. 
• Schedule all required foster home inspections per state licensing inspections and assist foster parents in prepping homes for the inspections. 
• Follow the recruitment and retention plan to assist foster families in meeting and maintaining initial and ongoing trainings, certifications, and licensure requirements. 
• Maintain constant foster parent communication to keep foster caregivers updated of the licensing process and resolve licensing issues. 
• Maintain ongoing contact with State licensing agencies, state and Federal stakeholders as needed. 
• Act as Program Subject Matter Expert (SME) in matters related to licensing/ recruiting, bed capacity. Responsible for updating the cross functional team, including the Intake Team, of bed availability and completing reports/logs.  
• Upload, maintain and update all foster parent information and home records in Evolve Program: keeping, maintaining, organizing physical files for audits. 
• Participate as representative of the Program in state file audits as required. 
• Other duties are requested. 
• Perform all work in a manner consistent with the National Youth Advocate Program’s mission, values, and philosophies. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or comparable Human Services field from an accredited institution. 
• 2 years of work experience working in direct service with minors and families strongly preferred. 
• Must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, automotive insurance, and a good driving record. 
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred 
• Proficient use of desktop and laptop computers, smart phones and tablets, printers, fax machines and photocopiers as well as software including word processing, spreadsheet and database programs. 

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