Description

About Duet:

Duet’s mission is to promote health and well-being through vitally needed services to homebound adults, family caregivers, faith communities, and grandfamilies.

Our vision is a community where every person ages with compassion, dignity, and hope. Duet is passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for all staff, board members, volunteers, and service recipients. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design, and deliver solutions. 

Position Description & Scope of Work:

This full-time, 40 hour per week position will support Duet’s Kinship Care Services area. This position will provide support, connection to community resources, and tools to strengthen protective factors to kinship caregivers – most often grandparents raising grandchildren– elevating their ability to care for their vulnerable loved ones and themselves. The position will also carry out existing and new kinship care services, focusing on Spanish-speaking families, resulting in improved well-being to hundreds of caregivers each year. As with all Duet Staff, this position will strive at every opportunity to promote organization goals and values. 

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Highest Priority Personal Attributes:

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills and conflict management skills.
• Able to manage time well.
• Organized, with utmost attention to written detail for documentation purposes.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
• Flexible, reliable, and trustworthy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or related human service degree required.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish required.
• Minimum one year experience in case management required.
• Ability to recognize family, client strengths, and to state strengths in functional terms.
• Leadership, facilitation, and teaching skills.
• Knowledge of family strength techniques and approaches to identify the family’s underlying and unmet needs.
• Excellent knowledge of community resources and the multiple systems that impact kinship caregivers.
• Knowledge of child welfare systems and policies.
• Arizona Level 1 Fingerprint clearance card, required upon hire.
• Demonstrate flexibility in working with families, by scheduling meetings, appointments, and events at times convenient to program participants.
• Maintain a positive working relationship with co-workers, clients, and community partners, returning all phone calls and emails within 24 hours.
• Ability to lift 30 pounds.
• Valid driver’s license, current registration, and auto insurance.
• Computer skills required.

Work Location:
10000 North 31^st Avenue, Suite D200 Phoenix, AZ 85051

To Apply:
Please email resume and cover letter to: dominguez@duetaz.org