Guardian Ad Litem Office, 14Th Circuit- Ops Volunteer Recruiter

Guardian Ad Litem Office, 14th Circuit
- Ops Volunteer Recruiter

The Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office is Florida's award-winning, state-funded child advocacy organization. With more than 10,000 staff and volunteers, which includes more than 180 attorneys, its primary focus is the powerful and effective representation of Florida's abused, neglected, and abandoned children. Most of these children are abruptly removed from their homes, and sadly, many end up in foster care. The Office's mission is to provide the most vulnerable children in Florida with an adult from their community who will be a consistent, positive presence in the child's life as part of a multi-disciplinary team that always includes an attorney, child welfare professional and hopefully a community volunteer if one is available, providing the highest quality community advocacy and independent legal representation to protect each child's legal interests.

The Office's core values strongly reinforce and enhance its mission. Those values are:
Commitment to Children Communication Built on Trust Collective Empowerment Collaboration Courtesy

The GAL Volunteer Recruiter position offers an extremely interesting and challenging opportunity for job-seekers engaged in a career of direct sales/marketing or non-profit, community outreach programs involving volunteer and pro bono attorney recruiting and management. It provides a great venue for increased professional growth and personal development. You will experience and benefit from daily exposure to critical aspects of partnering with a diverse group of community partners including but limited to: community-based service agencies, non-profit organizations, county governments, faith-based organizations, large and small business operators, local media outlets, civic-minded citizens and current Guardian ad Litem child advocate volunteers.

The daily working environment is dynamic, fast-paced, intellectually and emotionally challenging, and satisfying!

This is a highly results-oriented, independent position responsible for as directed, volunteer and Pro Bono recruiting. The Volunteer Recruiter will facilitate volunteer training and community outreach activities on behalf of the Circuit Guardian ad Litem Office in collaboration with the Office's recruitment teams. The Volunteer Recruiter will work under the general supervision of the Circuit Director. The Volunteer Recruiter position encompasses a broad range of marketing, managerial, consultative, administrative, advocacy and leadership activities.

Some examples of a "typical" working day may include the following:

• Ensures compliance with all statewide administrative and operational standards, policies, procedures, and initiatives to facilitate consistent, effective circuit and statewide representation for children assigned to the Office, with special emphasis on volunteer management procedures and principles.
• Implements and adheres to circuit and statewide volunteer management procedures and practices.
• Effectively recruits, screens, trains, and retains sufficient volunteers and pro bono attorneys to serve on a multi-disciplinary team as a Guardian ad Litem for the children represented by your circuit.
• Assist in recruiting and screening mentors that will work with youth aging out of the foster care system, as directed by the Director of Pro Bono and Appeals or the Circuit Director.
• Responsible for developing in collaboration with the office of Pro Bono and Appeals, a continuous flow of qualified, prospective volunteer and pro bono attorney candidates through the following activities:
• Develops circuit's overall recruiting plan, under the direction of the Circuit Director and in collaboration with the volunteer recruitment teams to maximize the number and quality of volunteers working with children appointed to the Office.
• The volunteer recruitment team will include fellow recruiters, Regional Director, Director of Operations, Office of Pro Bono and Appeals and the Director of Communications.
• Will work in collaboration with volunteer recruitment teams on recruitment plans and marketing strategies.
• Utilizes a variety of skillful communication approaches to deliver a highly effective recruiting and community education programs in collaboration with the recruitment team. This will include public speaking presentations to a wide variety of audiences within the community, written communications/publications, including letters, newsletters, newspaper articles and similar publications, and graphics for social media platforms, all for the purpose of generating a continual supply of new, qualified volunteer and pro bono recruits.
• External communications will adhere to the Office's Branding policies.
• Maintain a social media presence for your Circuit in collaboration with the Director of Communications under the direction of the Circuit Director.
• Develops and maintains a wide network of contacts to help identify, locate and recruit qualified volunteers, mentors and Pro Bono…