Home Provider Coordinator

TO APPLY: Submit a resume and cover letter on our website: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Position open until filled.

PURPOSE:Second Home is a community effort to provide safe and stable housing for unaccompanied students, so they can focus on their studies, explore their gifts and talents, graduate from high school, and realize their goals and dreams. The program is a partnership between our statewide nonprofit Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO), local school districts, and local mediation centers, business and faith communities, and local community members The Home Provider Coordinator will oversee and coordinate the recruitment and onboarding of home providers across Washington County;

and network with members of local congregations, civic organizations, and businesses to spread awareness regarding youth homelessness and the Second Home program.

DIRECT REPORTS:
None

LOCATION:
Remote and on-site in Washington County and surrounding areas.

CLASSIFICATION:
Non-exempt, full-time (32 hours/week)*

* 32 hours is considered full-time at EMO.

BENEFITS:
Salary range starts at $31.19 per hour. All regular employees (does not include on-call or temporary) are eligible for vacation, holidays, sick leave, 401(k) retirement plan, employee assistance program and employee trainings. Employees in exempt positions or non-exempt positions that are 18 hours per week or more, also receive medical insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and life insurance, per eligibility requirements.

EMO has an organization-wide Pay Equity Plan (PEP). This PEP provides standardized increases to base pay for staff who have technical skills or specialized training beyond the minimum qualifications for a job, significant prior experience in similar roles, language skills relevant to the position, and/or who hold academic/professional degrees or certifications related to the role.

• Oversee the recruitment, training, onboarding, and supporting of home providers across Washington County region of the Second Home program, with special emphasis on prospective hosts whose backgrounds mirror those of our students.
• Communicate effectively and regularly with Second Home Program Team Members.
• Collaborate with Second Home team and community partners to develop a strategic plan for home provider recruitment in each region where Second Home serves students.
• Recruit home providers according to the above strategic plan, including working together with Regional and Student Coordinators, and students to locate kinship home providers.
• Work together with the Second Home program and EMO team to raise awareness around youth homelessness and provide community outreach and recruitment through speaking engagements/presentations, tabling events, online and print publicity, social media, radio, etc.
• Interview potential home providers, onboard new home providers, and act as support to recruited home providers before, during and after their hosting experience.
• Assist in providing individual and group trainings for home providers in priority areas such as trauma-informed care, conflict resolution, supporting students experience suicide ideation, etc.
• Assist in the exit process of home providers when they have completed the duration of their time as a home provider for a student.
• Maintain financial and client-based records, including weekly case notes in program database.
• Facilitate and ensure that background checks are completed for home providers.
• Be available to support home providers and team members, as needed.
• Promote and contribute to the development and growth of the overall program.
• Join the Second Home team in fundraising efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Ability to work within the mission, vision and ethics of EMO, and maintain an understanding of the services provided by its programs and projects.

Required:

• Degree in Marketing or Social Work, or two year of experience in the field, or lived experience.
• Training in trauma-informed care.
• 1 year experience outreach and community engagement.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining a close relationship with team,…