Statewide Facilitator - YCPRT / Child Welfare

Overview of Kinnect

Kinnect is an Ohio\-based non\-profit organization dedicated to developing KinFirst strategies and delivering programs that strengthen kinship connections and inclusive support networks for families, young people, and children. Kinnect has spent 20 years collaborating with families, public agencies, and private providers to ensure young people and families have the belonging, resources, and relationships they need to thrive.

Kinnect’s purpose, vision, and guiding principles center family and kin and promote a KinFirst culture in every aspect of our service delivery and advocacy efforts for families, young people, and children. Kin is family, family is kin, and whether relationships involve relatives or chosen family connections, a KinFirst culture is the way we work and live each day.

Kinnect is proud to be a nationally recognized leader and pioneer in the field, which led to the development of KinnectU, a training, consulting, and replication branch of Kinnect, to provide these services to all child\- and family\-serving organizations. Our programs include the Ohio Kinship and Adoption Navigator (OhioKAN) program, Kinnect to Family (KTF), and Youth Centered Permanency Roundtables (YCPRT). Kinnect is grateful to receive support from a variety of sources, including contracts with government entities, partnerships with nonprofits, generous grants, and invaluable donations from foundations and private donors.

Overview of the Youth\-Centered Permanency Roundtables (YCPRT) Program

Youth Centered Permanency Roundtables (YCPRT) is a program that was originally designed by Casey Family Programs that Kinnect has adapted and currently implements in various counties across the state of Ohio. YCPRT’s ensure that youth in foster care have a voice in shaping their own plans for permanency. The process engages youth in open conversations about their goals, allowing them to invite trusted adults and professionals to meetings with the goal of creating support networks that last beyond foster care.

Position Summary:

The Statewide Facilitator is a full\-time position dedicated to the support of the Kinnect to Family Program and the Youth Centered Permanency Roundtable (YCPRT) team. The Statewide Facilitator will work under the direction of the Program Manager to develop, promote, and execute the statewide facilitation offering in partnership county agencies. This position will support various programmatic aspects for Kinnect to Family including YCPRT implementation, family search and engagement, training provision, coaching, and expansion efforts. The

Statewide Facilitator’s responsibilities include planning and coordinating family meetings in collaboration with county and agency partners and then facilitating those meetings with a youth\-centered and family driven focus. Other key features of this role include cultivating effective relationships with county partner agencies and tracking related benchmarks, fidelity measures, and outcomes.

Essential Functions:

• Facilitate in\-person and virtual youth\-centered and family driven permanency meetings in collaboration with county and agency partners
• Engage youth, their supports, and professionals in creative and relentless permanency planning
• Coordinate and organize in\-person and virtual YCPRT meetings and advisory council convenings
• Collaborate with the YCPRT Tri\-Chairs and the Advisory Council
• Contribute to the adaptation and development of necessary forms and reporting tools
• Apply Kinnect to Family Model strategies to build genograms and support intensive family search and engagement efforts as needed
• Achieve key performance indicators
• Provide timely data entry; maintain current tracking tools and monitor outcomes
• Develop high quality relationships both internally and externally to move the work forward
• Champion strategies to ensure safe and affirmed youth, honor lived experience, and include youth voice
• Create and collateral material for presentations, training, and outreach
• Coordinate with Regional Director to meet requests for technical assistance, coaching and support from county or agency partners
• Deliver effective presentations in one\-on one, small groups, and large groups
• Assist Program Manager and Regional Director in preparing reports and presentations
• Support model fidelity, evaluation, and expansion efforts
• Work collaboratively across the Kinnect to Family team, cross\-functionally and with external partners to foster integration of programs.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding Kinnect, partner organizations, and children served
• Perform other responsibilities assigned by the Program Manager or Regional Director

Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in social services, management, public policy, or related field.
• Experience working within the nonprofit, child welfare, social services, academia, or government settings, preferred.
• Ability to use customer service initiative to work with partner agencies.
• Skilled in virtual meeting tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams platforms
• Experience using Microsoft Office
• Possess a valid driver’s license and own reliable transportation

Working Conditions:

• Travel required, as needed. Must have access to own reliable transportation.
• Available to work a flexible schedule, which may include nights and weekends
• This job requires occasional overnight travel
• Kinnect as an organization has a Hybrid Work Model that combines remote and on\-site work at Kinnect, as well as routine on\-site or in\-person work with team members, partner sites, community events, and direct service in the field.
• This role will utilize standard office equipment that will be provided by Kinnect

Hiring Process:

• The final candidate selected for the position will be required to undergo a criminal background check and drug screening. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position. An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal conviction(s) will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

Role Competencies:

* Communicate Effectively: Develop and deliver communications using various methods that conveys a clear understanding of the unique needs of the different audiences we communicate with.

* Critical Thinking for Managing Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Kinnect’s Guiding Principles:

* Partnership: Bringing our collective experience and skillsets to relationships that support our connectedness and achievement of our mission.

* Innovation: Continuous and dynamic process where creative ideas are valued, discussed, and implemented to significantly disrupt routing and prevailing structures.

* Integrity: Having the courage to live the Kinnect values of dignity, respect and honesty.

* Outcome Focused: We strive to measure our work, to pivot, iterate, and improve to accomplish desired results.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Kinnect maintains a policy of nondiscrimination toward all employees and applicants for employment. All aspects of employment with us will be governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, or gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, sexual expression or identity, national origin, physical, intellectual or emotional ability, marital or partnership status, parental or family status, medical or genetic status, veteran’s or disabled veteran status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. Employment Posters stating current regulatory and legal requirements are posted in Kinnect’s main office and on the intranet.

American’s with Disabilities ActThis position involves sitting in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time and the ability to ambulate without assistance to attend on\-site meetings, as needed. The job requires movement in a typical office environment with file cabinets, office machinery, office furniture and typical hallway and access doorways. The position must operate typical office equipment, such as copiers, telephones, computers and peripherals. This job requires that the person must have the ability to access transportation to attend meetings and special events. The organization provides reasonable accommodations for this position.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position.

Kinnect maintains a policy of nondiscrimination toward all employees and applicants for employment. All employment decisions at Kinnect are based on organizational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, and will be governed on the basis of competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, or gender identity or expression, age, sexual orientation, sexual expression or identity, national origin, physical, intellectual or emotional ability, marital or partnership status, parental or family status, medical or genetic status, veteran’s or disabled veteran status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. Employment Posters stating current regulatory and legal requirements are posted in Kinnect’s main office and on the intranet.