All God's Children International (AGCI) is a non-profit orphan care ministry answering God's call to provide the love and care that every child deserves. We have been committed to giving hope and changing lives around the world since 1991.

AGCI is dedicated to empowering local leaders to intervene for the 8 million children living in institutions and creating more paths to family, faith, and independence. Our AGCI Child Advocacy Model is a holistic approach to:

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  Prevent children from entering institutions by strengthening families.
• Provide elevated care by collaborating with institutions and training caregivers in our holistic model.
• Place children with prepared, loving forever families through international and domestic adoption.
• Prepare older orphans to thrive through independence programs.
• Change Policy to improve child welfare systems for children around the world.

We are seeking a part-time, as needed Social Worker to join our team. The Social Worker is responsible for completing social service assessments and reports including but not limited to home studies, post placement and post adoption reports. They are also responsible for educating and supporting families about adoption. They will be reporting to the Director of Clinical Services. We are currently seeking social workers in the following geographies:

• Indianapolis, IN
• South Bend, IN
• Fort Wayne, IN

This position requires the successful completion of an extensive background check.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Represents self in a manner consistent with the mission, policies, and procedures of AGCI.
• Conducts and completes home studies, updates, and addendums and post placement and post adoption reports as assigned by the State Director.
• Completes AGCI home studies, updates, addendums and post adoption reports in compliance with home state, Hague, USCIS and AGCI standards.
• Ensures all social service visits and reports, including but not limited to home studies, home study addendums/updates and post placement and post adoption reports are completed in a timely manner.
• Educates families on topics such as attachment and bonding, child health issues, grief and loss, discipline, multi-cultural adoption, country-specific issues, and other risk factors associated with adoption at all phases in adoption process.
• Provides support services on topics such as attachment and bonding, child health issues, grief and loss, discipline, multi-cultural adoption, country specific issues and other risk factors associated with adoption.
• Provides crisis intervention and ongoing support and resource linkage for families seeking disruption/dissolution, when needed, in consultation with State Director as necessary.
• Respectfully takes direction from the State Director and seeks consultation when appropriate.
• Engages families and prospective families with AGCI's holistic mission.
• Displays excellent communication skills including in-person customer service, documentation, detail-orientation, and sensitivity with confidential documents and information; displays exceptional ability to communicate effectively and remain calm and courteous under pressure.
• Ensures an exceptional experience through unwaveringly high levels of customer service with both internal and external audiences by being honest, warm, responsive, and thorough at all times.
• Works collaboratively in a team environment with a spirit of cooperation and remains open to all levels of work and support for the organization.
• Successfully completes fifteen (15) continuing education hours each year as required by Hague (or more as required by employee's professional license).
• Other duties, as assigned.

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.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Social Workers in the state of Indiana must meet one of the following education/experience requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college plus five years of supervised paid case work experience, at least two years of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except that one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for the required five years of supervised paid case work experience.
• Graduation from an accredited four-year college plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, plus two years of supervised paid case work experience, one year of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one year of the required two years of supervised paid case work experience, but there should be no substitution for the required one year of paid case work experience in an approved child-placing agency.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as business correspondence, reports, inquiries, and sensitive medical and financial documents. Ability to write error-free correspondence and reports. Responds to questions from families, using sensitivity and tact. May participate in training sessions lead by AGCI employees.

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 and other graphing visuals.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Job requires basic computer skills including logging on to systems, word processing, spreadsheet, report writing, use of internet and communication by e-mail.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to work with and protect extremely confidential files and information and have the appropriate discernment regarding handling issues of varying complexity and sensitivity. Can apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or verbal form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Maintain any relevant state license.

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use stairways to climb to multiple floors within office building, use hands and fingers to keyboard or dial, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee must infrequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds, as it relates to accessing/storage of off-site files. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus, especially with frequent computer use.

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.

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