SFFC Coordinator

Job Category: Social Services - Domestic Programs

Requisition Number: SFFCC
001668

• Posted :
  September 22, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Wexford, PA 15090, USA

Rooted in our Christian faith, Bethany Christian Services works to ensure children are safe, loved, and connected through family. Across 29 states, we strengthen families, support foster care and adoption, and walk alongside refugees with compassion. Here, living out your faith means using your gifts to bring hope and make a lasting impact.

Safe Families surrounds parents facing crises with a caring, compassionate community. As a Safe Families for Children Coordinator, you’ll connect families with friendship, coaching, resources, and short-term care for their children through volunteer Host Families.

How Your Role Makes a Difference

• Identify and engage churches in the following levels: participating, lead, and community lead;
• Identify, recruit, and train church ministry leads and coach them on how to develop their ministry teams;
• Effectively coach Ministry Leads to ensure SFFC churches regularly recruit, support, and empower their volunteers;
• Oversee the continuous growth of SFFC Church in chapter to ensure the engagement of current and new volunteers for Circles of Support;
• Develop faith forums or other pastoral gatherings, as needed;
• Facilitate recruitment of volunteers through Church engagement, Home Gatherings, and other strategies;
• Facilitate or assist with developing a volunteer Leadership Council;
• Ensure volunteers and churches are resourced appropriately to meet the needs of parents and their children;
• Network within the community to build positive alliances and create opportunities for the recruitment of volunteers;
• Provide regularly scheduled compelling presentations to audiences of various groups and sizes related to the work of the Safe Families program;
• Secure the interest of new volunteer applicants according to agreed targets, and assist them through the Safe Families for Children selection process;
• Facilitate or assist in organizing and delivering high-quality training to volunteers on a regular basis;
• Offer resources and coaching for SFFC church Ministry Leads and Circle of Support teams, while ensuring good communication between the Safe Families office, churches, and other community organizations involved;
• Generate and provide written reports to management, the board, and key stakeholders, as requested;
• Provide and safety oversight of SFFC program implementation;
• Conduct supervision, along with developing and implementing training for SFFC volunteers;
• Provide emergency and on-call support to SFFC volunteers;
• Facilitate or assist in promoting program community relations and publicity to include but not limited to outreach to community service providers;
• Build and maintain positive relationships with church representatives and community agencies;
• Conduct home assessment and complete the documentation according to program guidelines;
• Facilitate or assist with interviews of all Host Families and Family Coaches, along with submitting documentation and assessments to their Supervisor for final approval or denial of volunteers;
• Supervise, train, and support the Family Coach and Host Family volunteers on all aspects of the hosting process, to include being available on an emergency and on-call basis;
• Facilitate or assist with Family Coach Supervision responsibilities as needed;
• Effectively encourage Family Coaches to help parents set goals and work towards accomplishing the goals;
• Facilitate or assist with maintaining all Safe Families volunteers’ files to ensure completeness;
• Facilitate or assist in the networking process for local community resource providers to create a referral base and resource network;
• Develop and…