Regional Coordinator

DePaul Community Resources seeks a full-time (37.5-hour work week) Regional Coordinator.

This position serves the Piedmont and Western regions of Virginia and includes the Abingdon, Christiansburg, Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville offices.

The Regional Coordinator oversees program operations, guides consortium development, and provides direct supervision and guidance to regional supervisors for DePaul's post-adoption services in the Western and Piedmont regions of the state. The regional coordinator is responsible for delivering ongoing, meaningful support to direct service professionals in adoption, steering collaborative community efforts to enhance support for adoptive families, and attending to program integrity concerning grant targets, documentation requirements, best practices, quality, and safety.

This role facilitates professional growth and development for adoption specialists, meets specified goals and objectives in grant-funded programs, reports program outcomes to funders, and collaborates with various internal and external stakeholders to continually enhance program and agency efforts. DePaul relies on the regional coordinator and other adoption supervisors for extensive knowledge of adoption policies and procedures, as well as reinforcement of adoption competency both within programs and across the agency.

The Regional Manager will supervise the Regional Supervisors and report directly to the Director of Adoption.

This list is not an exhaustive & all-inclusive list of job responsibilities. The distribution of time allotted for any function or duty is subject to change with or without notice. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign other responsibilities to this job or reassign them elsewhere at any time.

• Oversee and direct the work of adoption specialists through team meetings, individual supervision, and file review, providing meaningful professional support and guidance to ensure compliance with documentation requirements, ethical standards, reporting requirements, agency policies, and grant guidelines.
• Facilitate comprehensive onboarding/training for new staff and monitor ongoing team member training to nurture professional growth, strengthen adoption competency, and ensure compliance regarding program policies and procedures, grant targets, minimum standards, code of Virginia, personnel policies and procedures, and social work best practices.
• Continually develop and facilitate a regional consortium to strengthen regional support for adoptive families, maintaining positive professional relationships and successfully promoting activities with various stakeholders, including staff, adoptive family members, subcontractors, referral agencies, key community partners, and media.
• Complete grant performance surveys, analyses, and reports in a timely and comprehensive manner to meet funding requirements and assist with continual quality improvements.
• Collaborate with the Director of Adoption, regional supervisors, adoption team members, other DePaul staff across programs, DePaul leadership, and community partners to optimize services, program outcomes, fiscal responsibility, and realization of the agency mission. This may sometimes necessitate direct client contact through substitute case management, group facilitation, or event participation.
• Network with grantors, trauma-responsive coalitions, and adoption specialized agencies and professionals to stay current on evolving grant requirements, policy changes, and trends in adoption service provision on a community, state, and national level.

Knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics or KSAOs are attributes needed to perform a job that are demonstrated through qualifying training, education, and experience. This list is not an exhaustive & all-inclusive list of all KSAOs for this job.

• Office and records administration techniques and procedures
• The structure and content of the English language, including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
• Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Sharepoint, Teams, and virtual meeting applications such as Zoom, Web Ex, Google Meet
• DePaul's policies, procedures, and standard practices and the rules and guidelines established by regulatory and governing agencies
• Relevant policies, procedures, and strategies to promote the safety and protection of people, data, and property
• Office procedures and spelling, grammar, punctuation, and arithmetic
• Policies, procedures, and guidelines established by DePaul, professional organizations, governing agencies, and local laws, statutes, regulations, codes, and standards related to the area of responsibility
• Methodologies and resources used to assess the needs of the listener or audience to share information or engage in ongoing communication
• Program planning…