Job Description
Job Location: CNSWFL Ford Street - Fort Myers, FL 33916Education
Level: High School
Salary Range: $48,000.00 Salary
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Mission Statement
The Children’s Network of Southwest Florida is committed to working with the community to protect children and preserve families.
General Purpose of Job
Work alongside case management and lead agency staff to support fatherhood engagement activities. This position will provide support to staff in order to increase father participation in appropriate services, increase father involvement in the dependency process, improve ongoing communication between fathers and case management, and encourage positive, stable relationships between fathers and their children. Preference will be given to individuals with lived experience in the child welfare system.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Have a major role in the development and implementation of father engagement processes, programming, and events.
- Support staff in building relationships, identifying needs, and helping fathers access services.
- Assist in identifying and coordinating efforts to locate missing fathers and efforts to establishing paternity when unknown.
- Assist with developing and presenting training specific to serving and engaging fathers.
- Cultivate and manage collaborative relationships with the child welfare and family serving agencies about the challenges faced by fathers and how to appropriately meet their unique needs.
- Practice effective techniques for father engagement
- Serve as a liaison between case management and system partners to include Department of Corrections, Child Support Enforcement, and any additional entities identified that impact father engagement.
- Communicate with entities that may temporarily serve fathers such as corrections, mental health facilities, treatment facilities, and/or other agencies that provide programming for fathers.
- Participate in the specific tasks related to data collection on engagement of fathers.
- Communicates effectively in both oral and written forms to a variety of stakeholders and partners.
- Ability to comply with all personnel policies and procedures.
- Adherence of all data collection into FSFN as required
- Other duties may be assigned as special projects may be requested
Working HOurs
CNSWFL’s work week is Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week. Your supervisor will advise you of your work hours; however, business office hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Travel
Travel in and outside of Circuit 20 (Lee, Charlotte, Collier, and Hendry/Glades counties) is required.
Training
All employees must complete fifteen (15) hours of on-line or classroom Training on an annual basis. If the employee is a Certified Child Welfare Professional, Training hours must total twenty (20) annually.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position does not have supervisory responsibilities
Education and/or Experience
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Lived experience in the child welfare system. More specifically, lived experience similar to the fathers who are served by Children’s Network and/or other child welfare system of care partners
- Experience in community engagement and collaboration with diverse populations
- Ability to work evening and weekends
Other requirements
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with others
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrate cultural and linguistic competence and sensitivity to population served
- Dependability
Skills and Abilities
Must be able to operate standard modern office machinery, including fax, telephone, calculator, computer, scanner, printer, copier, and mail machine. Must be competent with Microsoft Office Suite programs, including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook. Must be competent with basic e-mail protocol and procedures including sending, receiving, replying, attachments, and meeting scheduling; excellent written and oral communication skills; effective listening skills; ability to work as a team member, and the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment. Must possess excellent organizational skills and abide by the highest standards of confidentiality.
pre-employment requirements
Certificates, License, Registrations, backgrounds, drug screens, Etc.
- Valid driver’s license with a clean driver’s license check (annually) is required, with proof of insurance
- Criminal background screening (Fingerprinting~ Local Law Enforcement / FBI/FDLE) and Abuse Registry
- Drug Screening is a requirement
- Children’s Network participates in E-Verify
Other Requirements
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and the public.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to be proactive, as well as handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This job requires the ability to sit for extended periods; walk; stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel or crouch; talk and hear. This job requires visual acuity sufficient to read and to operate standard modern office machines. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is administrative work in an indoor office environment with a moderate noise level (business machines, printers, computers, telephones).
ADA: Children’s Network of Southwest Florida, LLC will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
EEO: Children’s Network of Southwest Florida, LLC does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, religion, veteran status, or disability in employment, in provision of services, or in access to programs.
Children’s Network of Southwest Florida, LLC is a Drug-Free Workplace.
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I certify that the statements above to the best of my knowledge accurately describe the duties performed and agree that I am qualified in education and skill to meet the requirements of the position. If the employee does not agree, indicate here:
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Qualifications
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Lived experience in the child welfare system. More specifically, lived experience similar to the fathers who are served by Children’s Network and/or other child welfare system of care partners
- Experience in community engagement and collaboration with diverse populations
- Ability to work evening and weekends
