Careers

Current Opportunities

Reports To: President & CEO

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Part-Time, approximately 20 hours/week

Location: Columbus, OH – On-Site

Organization Summary
The Center for Healthy Families serves pregnant and parenting youth in Franklin County,
focusing on breaking the cycle of disadvantage through holistic support, including
education, housing, and pre-natal care.

Position Summary

The Administrative Assistant is a key link in supporting the efficient and smooth day-to-
day operations of the organization. Reporting to the President & CEO, this role provides

overall administrative support, acting as the welcoming first point of contact for
stakeholders, and ensuring that our team has the resources needed to further our
mission.

Key Responsibilities

General Administration & Office Management
- Support the President & CEO with calendar scheduling, meeting preparation, gatekeeping, and overall support as needed.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the organization: answer incoming phone calls, respond to general inquiries, and greet visitors with a warm, professional demeanor.
- Manage office operations, including ordering supplies, maintaining office equipment, and keeping common areas organized.
- Handle incoming and outgoing mail, packages, and shipments.
- Maintain accurate and organized physical and digital filing systems.
Program & Development Support
- Assist with development outreach, processing of donations and grants, including logging checks and preparing timely donor acknowledgement letters.
- Help prepare and assemble materials for community programs, workshops, and direct mail campaigns.
- Support event coordination by managing registrations and assisting with even setups.
Board of Directors & Meeting Support
- Assist in coordinating board meetings, including scheduling and reserving meeting spaces.
- Prepare and distribute meeting agendas, packets, and relevant documents.
- Attend meetings when requested to take, transcribe, and distribute meeting minutes.
Technology & Communications
- Troubleshoot basic office technology issues and work with IT support when necessary.

Qualifications & Skills

Experience: 1-3 years of experience in administrative support, office management, or nonprofit project coordination.
Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred, or an equivalent mission and a commitment to serving the community.
Organization: Exceptional organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.
Combination of education and experience.
Mission Alignment: A strong passion for the organization’s
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. A warm, friendly, and respectful phone and in-person manner.
Tech Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Discretion: Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive organizational and donor information with discretion.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

This role operates in a professional office environment.
Requires the ability to sit or stand for extended periods and occasionally lift or move up to 20 pounds.

How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit a resume and a brief cover letter outlining their interest and relevant experience to admin@centerforhealthyfamilies.org with the subject line
“Administrative Assistant Application –[Your Name].”

The Center for Healthy Families is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

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The Center for Healthy Families is an innovative not-for-profit organization located in Columbus, Ohio for the purpose of engaging pregnant and parenting teens and their children in opportunities to acquire self-sufficiency capabilities of health and well-being, positive networks, education, and employment through a coordinated network of highly effective community services. For more information see www.centerforhealthyfamilies.org.

Available immediately is an exempt, salaried position to directly provide individual service coordination, provide home visiting services to provide expectant and new parents with the opportunity to receive the education and support they need at the time their baby is born.

Job Title: Home Visitor
Program: Healthy Families America
Reports to: Home Visitor Manager

Job Description: The HFA home-visiting model promotes early nurturing parent-child interactions as the foundation for life-long healthy development in children. The services place emphasis on working with the expectant and new parents to improve health outcomes by increase in access to primary medical services, reduce child-maltreatment, and improve family self- sufficiency.

Primary Responsibilities

Develop Family Goal Plans in collaboration with families
Utilize developmental screening instruments for infants and toddlers birth-to-three
Engage families as active team members in the screening, developmental evaluation, ongoing assessments and intervention processes
Coordinate service appointments based on family needs/preferences in collaboration with parents and other services providers
Coordinate and monitor delivery of services with families and providers
Link parents and children to appropriate resources in Franklin County
Assess the appropriate match between the expressed needs and interests of referrals and the services available through HFA
Assure that perspective participants have a clear understanding of the services available and the organization’s expectations surrounding their participation
Be knowledgeable of the programs and services of The Center for
Healthy Families and resources it makes available to pregnant and parenting teens
Assist enrolled teens and their families in managing crisis situations, advocating and coaching as required
Maintain communication with both partner and non partner organizations providing services to participants to monitor progress and ensure appropriate service delivery that contributes to achievement of goals
Manage and operate an administrative process and tool that tracks entrants into and through Healthy Families America
Understand and enforce appropriate privacy, security, and privilege restrictions when accessing and sharing data
Track complete and relevant client and service data
Produce reports
Participate in ongoing evaluation of HFA program to maximize effectiveness and impact
Develop and maintain effective working relationships between The Center for Healthy Families and partnering organizations, area social service agencies, and other select entities within the Franklin County community
Seek input, advice, and feedback from partnering organizations to assist in performing position responsibilities
Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements
Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or related field
LSW, PC or MFT
Experiential knowledge of social service agencies, and/or health care institutions, and/or community organizations
Some schedule flexibility, defined as infrequent night or weekend hours

Experience:

5 years' experience directly serving clients or consumers, both conducting an assessment and providing a responsive service either directly or through referrals
Significant work experience with teens in providing individual and group counseling.
Experience or knowledge of documentation requirements for Medicaid as well as Federal, State and/or county funding

Preferred Qualifications:
Education:

Master’s degree, preferably in social work or related degree

Experience:

Significant employment, volunteer, or personal experience with teens
Leadership experience, or demonstrated interest in leadership
Minimum of 2 years work experience in a position requiring an MSW or LSW
Bi-lingual (English and Spanish)

Essential Knowledge, Skills, Behaviors

Knowledge of Implicit Bias and its impact on service delivery
Provide (family driven) Cultural competency
Ability to quickly learn and apply a working knowledge of organizational policies and procedures
Demonstrated commitment to develop self-sufficiency capabilities related to: health and well-being, positive networks, education, and employment
Ability to develop and maintain a positive and professional work environment
Willingness to engage in professional development opportunities that bring benefit to the employees professional growth and can be applied to the HFA program or the organization
Relationship management skills
Ability to deliver telephone-based services
Crisis management skills
Analytical decision making
Service-oriented
Professional accountability
Effective Communication
Organized
Interacts with compassion and patience
Ability to multi-task
Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
Possess and maintain a valid Ohio driver’s license
Computer skills, including Internet searches, MS Office Suite, databases
Reliable transportation to travel to service sites and other community locations for service delivery

Please forward all resumes and cover letters with salary requirements to:
admin@centerforhealthyfamilies.org.
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The Center for Healthy Families’ policy is to recruit, hire, and promote job applicants or employees without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, disability, genetic information, or any other class of persons protected by applicable law. Decisions on employment and promotion are based solely upon an individual’s qualifications, with reference to the skills and abilities required of the position for which the
individual is being considered.

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