Initial Licensing Specialist

**Position Summary:** Necco has an opportunity for a career as an **Initial Licensing Specialist**. This position will add value to the company by lead, manage and direct Recruitment & Retention policies, procedures, and practices across all locations in the US. Responsible for creating and implementing recruitment and retention strategies and programs. **You should be accurately described as:** A happy warrior who thrives on leading from the front with strategic thinking. A solid communicator in search of decisions that deliver real results. A problem-solver, financial steward, and one who excels at collaboration. Ridiculously passionate about the company’s success, growth, and program quality. **Recruitment** - Ensuring targeted recruitment to meet current demand by utilizing data - Carrying out the annual recruitment plan - Mine existing and prospective parents for referrals - Establish the Necco brand as a leader in foster care by educating the community and related organizations at events - Build relationships with foster parents, local businesses, news media, churches, community organizations, and business leaders. - Use data to collaborate with staff, foster parents, and community-based influencers to develop and implement ongoing recruitment methods - Ensure the CRM reflects accurate and timely data regarding leads/opportunities and activities - Utilize CRM to manage follow-up communication with prospective foster parents using phone, email, text, face-to-face, and direct mail - Ensure inquiry responses are within 24 hours (excludes weekends) **Certification** - Lead the charge on the certification process as required by state licensing to include initial training, home study process and approval to be a foster home - Maintain knowledge of current state regulations relating to foster homes - Assess the family for ability to foster throughout the training and home study process - Provide foster parent training classes for certification per state requirements - Provide recommendations for needed training in growth areas - Participate in the admissions process from youth referral to first placement - Maintain all aspects of the foster parent record in the database - Ensure the accuracy of pipeline numbers - Working with the team on foster home capacity and utilization **Initial Training** - Manage all aspects of foster parent initial training - Ensure training of Hobb’s principles of Re-Education and Necco culture **Corporate Citizen** - Provide (on a rotating schedule) on-call advisory and support to foster families, report and document activities - Practice Ruthless Pragmatism - Engage in peer-to-peer feedback - Know and Live the Necco Corporate Culture Principles - Embody the 3 essential virtues of Humble, Hungry and Smart - Drive your Individual Performance Scorecard - Adhere to and contribute to the Necco meeting structure **Position Qualifications** - Minimum of 21 years of age - Bachelor's degree in human services or related field (Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio) - Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in social work or a related human service field, or a Board of Regents degree with human service concentration, or a bachelor's degree and have completed department-approved training provided by the child placing agency (West Virginia) - Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree from an accredited four-year college or university (Tennessee) - The degree must be supplemented by at least 7 hours in behavioral sciences, such as social work, psychology, and sociology - One year of casework experience can be substituted for the 7 hours - A minimum of 2 years’ experience in the human services field - 100/300/100 Auto Insurance Coverage and Valid Driver’s license - Experience with Training - Excellent Computer Skills along with the ability to learn new skills and/or programs - Excellent communication and organizational skills - Successful completion of all required criminal background checks - Travel/Training Willingness At Necco, we…