Join our Dream Team as Community Liaison
This is an independent contractor position, meaning you can work from your home, or wherever it is you work best.
We’re looking for Community Liaisons who are interested in growing their area and supporting our local families and Care Professionals.
Why Join Our Team?
You Love Work with a Purpose
You thrive when your work really matters and you love seeing that you are making a difference in other people’s lives. Knowing that you are working with families and linking them to Care Professionals that can help their children to grow and succeed is heartwarming. It never gets old.
You Love Working with People
You have a passion for working with families and young Care Professionals from other cultures, helping them to find their passions and achieve their goals.
You Want to Help Families & Children with Special Needs
The special needs community tends to be its own orbit and to be able to talk and network with these families is a pleasure in itself. You enjoy building relationships with host families, Care Professionals, and most of all, enhancing the lives of host children with and without special needs.
You are Seeking Work-Life Balance
You think that being able to work from home and working for an organization “that gets special needs,” is incredible.
You want to be Part of a “Dream Team”
Join supportive colleagues spanning three continents who seek new ways of continued learning. Work on a team centered around respect, support and collaboration. Be a part of the ‘cultural bridge’ connecting our Apex Social care community to the amazing cultures of the U.S.A. & Australia!
You Seek a Position with Growth Potential
With a growing organization like Apex Social, there is a high potential for growth and career development.
What We Do?
Since 2008, Apex Social Group (Apex) has brought together qualified European Care Professionals with education, therapy, and nursing degrees with American and Australian families who have infants, multiples, or children with special needs. Starting in 2020, Apex began the recruitment and placement of American Care Professionals, as well.
The Apex Social Group is made up of several companies, which include: Apex Social Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit promoting education, travel and cultural exchange for German and American Care Professionals; Apex PROaupair, an international au pair agency designated by the US Department of State placing Care Professionals in the United States & Australia; Apex PROcare, a boutique domestic in-home childcare agency dedicated to matching American families with experienced American professional caregivers; and Apex Professional Exchange, which places care professionals in Australia.
Position Summary of Local Community Liaison
Do you have a passion for cultural exchange and building relationships? Do you want to do something you love that connects you with others both locally and globally? With Apex Social Group, you will have the opportunity to grow your own business, build a strong network in your community, become the local resource for families with special needs, and become part of an amazing global community of families and Care Professionals.
The role of the Apex Social Community Liaison will be to provide a local community connection to the Host Family and Care Professional. You will organize monthly activities for German and American Care Professionals and demonstrate Apex Social’s vision & mission. In this role, you will have a 4-5 hour commitment per month. The Community Liaison will be trained in the Department of State guidelines for the J-1 au pair program and will be the local person who can provide in-person support to the placement in times of emergency.
The primary role of the Community Liaison will be to create a fun, cultural, and local connection to the community! The Community Liaison can also be trained as a Special Needs Childcare Expert in the Community and be rewarded for adding new families and American Care Professionals in that city to the Apex Family.
This is a part-time freelance position with the potential to also earn referral bonuses for recurring new families or Care Professionals
Responsibilities Include:
- Identify, Plan and execute a monthly local Care Professional meet-up to promote cultural exchange and community involvement.
- Conduct a Home Visit to meet new host families in person and to confirm that they have a home and private bedroom that meet the Department of State requirements.
- Provide local support to Care Professionals in times of emergency, including housing and transportation as needed.
- Contribute to a positive and respectful culture by demonstrating professional communication and collaboration at all times with team members, host families, and Care Professionals.
- Create your own qualified leads in your community.
- Introduce the Care Professional to his or her new community by providing helpful resources and support
Qualifications:
- Strong interest or experience in serving families with children with special needs
- Demonstrated interest in travel abroad and cultural exchange.
- Great “people connector” with a passion for engaging and having fun.
- Excellent communication (both written and verbal).
- Proven ability to work as a team player.
- Consistent, positive attitude.
- “Entrepreneurial minded” - eager to grow a book of business preferred
- Must have reliable transportation.
- Self-starter that is comfortable - and values - working in a remote environment
- Alignment with Apex Social Group’s vision, mission and non-negotiables
- Background in a therapeutic, clinical or educational, counseling profession preferred
This position is for you if you love to connect with young people and help them to integrate with the local community, find local friends and engage with other like-minded locals. This is a great role for you if you are passionate and active as a volunteer in your community, or school or already have experience as a college counselor.
What Our Community Liaisons Say...
In July, I will celebrate two years of thriving (not working, thriving) with Apex Social Group with a total of four years working in the CULTURAL EXCHANGE world. Being a Community Liaison, I have six ingredients that make me thrive as an employee, a mom, and an ambassador to California and as a person.
The six ingredients are:
- Work that helps others: relationships with the host families, Care Professionals and most of all, enhancing the lives of the host children with and without special needs I love this the most!
- Engaging work that lets me enter a state of flow (freedom, flex hours, variety, clear tasks, feedback, fun)
- Supportive colleagues with Apex Social Group in three continents with new ways of continuing learning and embracing your passions with respect, support, and collaboration.
- A job that fits my personal life: I can make school field trips, attend my son’s baseball games, take a walk with friends in the morning, build amazing relationships with unique hardworking families around the SF Bay Area, support host families on my time, engage with the Care Professionals with fun local outings and yes, there is an occasional, ‘drop everything moment’. However, those are like a unicorn, very rare and I sleep every night stress-free with a smile on my face.
- Ambassador to California: I love the SF Bay Area, the beautiful state of California, and the awesomeness of the USA. San Francisco has long followed the beat of its own drum. Morphed and molded by its communities, the SF Bay area has been the heart of the bohemian lifestyle, the epicenter of the civil rights movement, and the launching point of the technology era. Today, San Francisco is a complete universe in and of itself: I love being part of the ‘cultural bridge’ connecting our Apex community of kindness to the strong sense of pride in the region. There are so many fun things to do in San Francisco for all age groups and interests covering everything imaginable: colorful festivals, mind-blowing concerts, unlimited dining options, diverse ethnic neighborhoods and shopping, urban adventure and recreational pursuits, history and architectural walks, fine arts and culture – the list are endless in the SF Bay Area.
- Young Professionals keep me young! With a long runway in front of them, Care Professionals from Apex have a high success rate. They are future-focused and come with every reason to be optimistic about their work and career. Young professionals still find themselves in the seeing, asking, changing, doing, and discovering stages of their work life. The host family (and, yes me, the Community Liaison) benefits from that fresh perspective unshaded by the bias of experience. I learn from these young professionals that life is breathtakingly beautiful, exciting and even with the occasional challenge…this is what life is all about…Thriving!
Everyday I don't JUST work. I help, guide, give, listen, make fun, share information, smile, laugh, thrive...
This is my Apex career and it fits my life!