Employment Opportunities
Embark on a career where you can make a difference while making a living. As an employee of One Family Illinois you’ll be part of the solution—helping to provide a viable alternative to traditional foster care for children who need an extra boost to thrive.
Looking for a college or graduate school internship? Working for One Family Illinois while in school can help you gain valuable, transferrable experience in your field of study while also learning about the importance of the nonprofit workforce. Reach out to us at info@onefamilyillinois.org for opportunities that may not be listed.
Child Care
Professional Foster Parent
Full Time Live-in
The Professional Foster Parent sits at the center of our model of care and is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a healthy, positive, long-term living environment. This is a live-in full-time role.
Emergency Foster Parent
Full Time Live-in
The Emergency Foster Parent provides a stable and healing home environment for youth in need, typically short-term for emergency purposes.
Relief Parent
Part Time
The Relief Parent assists the One Family Illinois Foster Parent in providing care and services to the children including transportation of children to recreational activities, homework assistance and therapy, and additional supervision of the children while a Foster Parent is using relief time/time off.
Direct Service / Child Welfare
Clinical Therapist – School & Community-Based
Full Time
The Clinical Therapist is responsible for providing professional oversight to all aspects of clinical services for the RISE UP program and their assigned school including providing assessments, interventions and psycho-social-educational therapeutic services to One Family Illinois (One Family) and Community, children, families and groups.
Youth Advocate Caseworker
Full Time
The Youth Advocate Caseworker is responsible for supporting youth assigned through DCFS appointee and provide wrap-around services that would lead to permanent housing.
Family Support Specialist
Full Time
Provides in-home intervention to children and their families utilizing a cognitive-behavioral, solution focused model to help families adopt positive solutions to problems through the teaching of skills and behavioral techniques accessing community resources and support. Intervention is provided to improve youth and family social, emotional, and behavioral well-being by using an accessible services delivery system that is flexible, culturally competent and responsive to the family. Family intervention is done primarily in the home, school, and community setting as needed.
Administrative
Business Manager
Full Time
The Business Manager helps with financial, vehicular/transportation, and purchasing functions under One Family Illinois for Chicago Village and Roosevelt Square Village foster care programs and services, including on the Villages (Chicago area sites) and the community. They may also assist with Accounts Payable functions at our Downtown location.
Training Coordinator
Full Time
The Training Coordinator will be responsible for carrying out a variety of tasks as part of the day-to-day operations of the Strategy department. This position’s primary responsibilities include the coordination of employee training (“Learning”); and communication regarding Training activities, initiatives, and achievements.
Recruitment Assistant
Part Time
The Recruitment Assistant sources the talent needed for the organization to grow and continue to thrive, with a primary focus on recruiting potential qualified Foster Parents.
General Maintenance Worker
Full Time
The General Maintenance Worker will assist One Family Illinois Director of Facilities with the maintenance and equipment needs of One Family Illinois buildings and grounds in a manner consistent with quality and long-term preservation of the facilities/grounds.
Volunteer
Volunteer
Volunteers can join as tutors or in variety of areas such as community programming, gardening, workforce development or events at one or all of the One Family Illinois sites.
*Please Note: One Family Illinois has mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for all employees. Should you wish to move forward with employment with the organization, this would be an employment requirement.
Employment Benefits
PPO or HMO plans for healthcare are offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield, which you may qualify for after 90 days of full-time employment.
Vision Care and Dental Care are offered through Guardian.
Paid Time Off, including Vacation Time, Sick Time, and Personal Time. Vacation Time is accrued depending on the length of service — the longer you are with One Family Illinois, the more vacation time you earn!
One Family Illinois also offers Life Insurance covered by employer (with optional add-on’s for employees). A&D, Long-Term and Short-Term Disability, and more.
Ability to contribute to a 403B Retirement Savings Plan (similar to a 401K but for nonprofits), which you can contribute to yourselves out of your paychecks immediately if you choose to do so and after 12 months, the company will contribute 4% on your behalf.
The PSLF Program forgives the remaining balance on your Direct Loans after you have made 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying employer. More information can be found here. One Family Illinois qualifies as a registered 501(c)3.
Partial tuition remission is available for employees after 18 months of service, with relevant coursework prioritized to better equip our community to serve others through their departments.
