Foster Parent Recruiter

Location: Hybrid in Omaha, NE 68127
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $45,000–$52,000 per year, based on experience
Schedule: Monday through Friday, with some evenings and weekends as needed for outreach events and community engagement
Reports To: Recruitment Supervisor or Program Director

About Release, Inc.
Release, Inc. is a faith-based nonprofit serving youth and families in the Omaha community. We are guided by compassion, dignity, and a commitment to helping children and families move toward safety, healing, and stability. We welcome applicants from varied backgrounds who can work respectfully in a mission-centered environment and serve families with care and professionalism.

Position Summary
Release, Inc. is seeking a Foster Parent Recruiter to lead community-based efforts to identify, engage, and support prospective foster families. This role combines relationship-building, outreach, public speaking, follow-through, and data tracking. The person in this role will build trust across the community, generate qualified inquiries, guide families through the early stages of the process, and adjust recruitment strategies based on results and current placement needs.

What You Will Do

• Build and execute a strategic foster parent recruitment plan with clear goals, outreach targets, and measurable outcomes.
• Represent Release, Inc. at community events, fairs, information sessions, church gatherings, school and daycare partnerships, and other public forums.
• Build and sustain relationships with community organizations, businesses, schools, churches, and neighborhood leaders to expand recruitment reach.
• Lead warm, informative conversations with prospective foster parents and help them understand both the need and the rewards of foster parenting.
• Respond promptly to inquiries and guide prospective families through initial next steps, including application and licensing-related handoffs and follow-up.
• Help prospective foster parents move through common fears, hesitation, and misconceptions with empathy, clarity, and encouragement.
• Collaborate with marketing to create audience-specific outreach materials, social media content, flyers, and campaign messaging.
• Tailor outreach strategies and talking points to different audiences, including faith communities, neighborhood organizations, daycare providers, schools, and community partners.
• Track outreach activity, contacts, lead sources, response times, conversion points, and outcomes in CRM or database systems.
• Review data regularly to identify what is working, what is not, and where strategy should pivot.
• Manage multiple recruitment pipelines at different stages while balancing community events, follow-up, planning, and administrative tasks.
• Support targeted recruitment efforts in communities where trusted presence and local relationships matter, including North Omaha and South Omaha.
• Partner with leadership and program staff to align recruitment efforts with current placement needs.

Who Thrives Here
You are likely to thrive in this role if you:

• Build authentic relationships quickly and gain trust with people from many backgrounds.
• Are warm, approachable, and comfortable starting conversations about foster care with people you have just met.
• Can engage both individuals and groups through one-on-one conversations, presentations, tabling, and community meetings.
• Speak confidently in both small and large group settings.
• Can communicate the realities, the need, and the impact of foster parenting in a way that feels honest and hopeful.
• Are proactive, self-motivated, and willing to pursue new opportunities rather than wait for direction.
• Can evaluate which strategies are effective and pivot when current approaches are not producing results.
• Think creatively and develop outreach strategies that are both effective and financially responsible.
• Follow through quickly and consistently with prospective families and community partners.
• Manage your time well across events, follow-up, planning, and multiple active recruitment pipelines.
• Stay motivated even when outreach involves rejection, hesitation, or delayed responses.
• Take ownership of recruitment goals and outcomes.
• Have a genuine passion for serving children and families involved in foster care.
• Can work a flexible schedule that includes some evenings and weekends.

Required Qualifications

• Must possess a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• At least 2 years of experience in recruitment, outreach, marketing, admissions, community engagement, or another relationship-driven role.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build trust with diverse communities.
• Comfort initiating conversations with new people and confidently inviting them to consider foster parenting.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills.
• Strong written communication skills for email, social media, flyers, and outreach materials.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate results, solve problems, and adjust strategy when needed.
• Strong follow-through, organization, and time-management skills.
• Experience tracking contacts, outreach, or pipeline activity using Microsoft Office and CRM or database systems.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation for community meetings and events.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including some evenings and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, human services, marketing, communications, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
• Knowledge of the child welfare system, foster care, kinship care, or family support services.
• Knowledge of or connection to the North Omaha and South Omaha communities.
• Bilingual ability in English and Spanish, or proficiency in another language commonly spoken in the community.
• Personal, lived, or professional experience connected to foster care, adoption, kinship care, foster parenting, former foster youth experience, or services for foster youth and foster families.
• Experience developing cost-conscious outreach strategies and tailoring messaging to specific audiences.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Company-paid holidays
• Monthly cell phone reimbursement, up to $75
• Mileage reimbursement for approved work-related travel
• 403(b) retirement plan, with employer contributions subject to plan terms
• Flexible schedule
• Employee assistance program
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement

Why Join Release, Inc.?
This is more than a recruiting role. It is an opportunity to help children and families access safety, stability, and connection. At Release, relationships matter, with the families we serve, with community partners, and within our own team. We work hard to be a supportive, professional workplace where people are treated with care, held accountable, and encouraged to grow. We also value sustainability in social services and intentionally support work-life balance, flexibility, and professional development.

Release Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that complies with EEOC rules and regulations. Pre-Employment Drug Screen, Criminal Background check, and Reference check are all part of our hiring process.