Community Responder

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Description

•As part of our Direct Impact Team, we are offering Virtual Support Services (VSS), a digital resource navigation model that leverages tech-enabled strategies to give young people and families direct access to resources for kinship families in the state of California. •The Community Responder (CR) serves as a navigator - helping to research, call and vet resources based on what individuals tell us they need. The CR also researches and builds our directory of resources (traditional AND non-traditional), including partnerships with virtual solutions beyond the scope of traditional child welfare (e.g. education coaching, telehealth and more). •Centering lived experience is core to everything we do, so experience with the child welfare system – professionally or personally – and living in the state of California is required.

Requirements

•Good Listener: You allow others to fully express themselves, understand both the words and underlying feelings, and process impressions and information without rushing to a conclusion. •Problem Solver: You overcome challenges to find a solution, take on demanding tasks to solve complex problems, find the right solutions where others have failed, and view problems as opportunities and take action. •Handles Ambiguity: You work confidently with unclear or changing situations. You switch gears easily in response to unexpected demands. You deal with conflicting priorities successfully. You work well in an unstructured environment. Delivers results under rapidly or continually changing circumstances. Makes sound decisions when faced with unclear situations. •Empathetic: You identify with the feelings, ideas, and attitudes of others by exhibiting Unconditional Positive Regard, sensitivity to prevailing circumstances and responsiveness to others’ experiences and concerns. •Persistent: You are someone who perseveres in spite of opposition or difficulty. You try various approaches to reach a goal and show commitment to completing a job despite obstacles.

Benefits

•“Build your office” stipend •Medical / Dental / Vision Coverage - We cover 100% of your premium and 50% of your family's premium for our "base" plan •Health Care & Dependent Care FSA •Employer-sponsored Short Term Disability •Employer-sponsored Life and AD&D •Voluntary Supplemental Life •Voluntary Long Term Disability •8 major holidays + 3 Org wide Breaks over Summer, Thanksgiving, & Winter •Flexible PTO •Sick Leave •Paid Leave of Absence •401k for pre-tax retirement contributions •Individual ($1500 per person) & Organizational-wide Learning & Development •We hold monthly learning sessions organization-wide to deepen our understanding of foster youth's Lived Experience. We also discuss topics outside of Child Welfare to foster curiosity and growth in our culture. •We put you at the cutting edge of change in the child welfare system. •We offer you the chance to engage with inspiring leaders in government, foundations, the nonprofit sector, and entertainment who are passionately committed to transforming the child welfare system.