SEAS Program Intake Specialist

Join Opportunity Council as a SEAS Navigator to make a difference in your community while building a career. Opportunity Council has worked for 60 years to build just, equitable communities through service, investment, and collaboration.

What You Will Do

Provide centralized intake and short-term resource navigation to services for children and youth in Whatcom County with special healthcare needs, prenatal parents, and parents with a child birth-5.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Ideal candidate has knowledge of related resources, proficiency in computer use, and adaptability in interpersonal skills. Opportunity Council values hiring individuals with lived experiences of poverty and/or homelessness or who have previously participated in Opportunity Council programs or other social services.

Requirements

• Knowledge of related resources or ability to access or learn resources
• Proficient in the use of computers and related information technologies, including spreadsheet and/or database software
• Must be able to adapt interpersonal skills in response to individual styles, personalities and cultures
• An understanding of local social and health services systems
• A background in child development resources or ability to learn child development resources
• A background in postpartum support resources or ability to learn postpartum support resources
• Completed TB test and submit test results prior to hire date
• Criminal records check to ascertain that the applicant has not been convicted of child abuse or neglect offense per Washington State Child Abuse Law (Ch. 486, Laws of 1987) or DSHS licensing requirements
• Current First Aid card and Infant/Child CPR training (or obtain within 30 days), and must maintain current certificates for length of employment
• Valid Washington State Driver’s License or obtain by date of hire. Must submit abstract of driving record for previous 3 years prior to start date
• If hiring for a bilingual position. Must be able to speak, read, and write with proficiency and fluency in the required language

Benefits

• Paid time off earned on an accrual basis (vacation, sick, personal, holidays)
• Paid time off for wellness needs
• Employer-paid holidays
• Employer-paid HDHP and low-cost traditional health care options
• HSA and FSA plans, subject to plan terms
• Eligibility for critical illness insurance coverage
• 403(b) Retirement plan with employer contribution
• Eligibility for health coverage for legal dependents
• Eligibility for employee/family dental and vision coverage
• Voluntary benefits such as life insurance, long-term disability, and long-term care and personal legal services