Assistant, Network Team

Overview:
The Assistant, Network Team is a remote position responsible for assisting with planning and facilitating training opportunities, developing and implementing a diligent recruitment plan, and providing ongoing peer support to regional foster/adoptive/kinship parents.
Responsibilities:

* Assist with planning and facilitating training opportunities

* Develop and implement a diligent recruitment plan semiannually

* Provide ongoing peer support to regional foster/adoptive/kinship parents

* Attend monthly regional team meetings and complete necessary paperwork to document program activities, track hours worked, and travel related to program

* Must be available on campus, if ever needed

Qualifications:

* At least one year of experience as a foster/adoptive parent with a Kentucky agency

* Must be a current foster parent or have adopted from Kentucky's foster care system

* In good standing with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services

* Kentucky state law requires all public institutions of postsecondary education to conduct pre-employment criminal background checks to determine suitability for employment

Benefits:

* This is a grant-funded position, continuation dependent upon funding/need

* Western Kentucky University (WKU) is committed to a policy and practice of providing equal employment and educational opportunities to all individuals

* Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities to participate in the application and/or selection process