Homeless Services Lead

Homeless Services Lead

You are an organized individual that wants to help their community while following policies and procedures. You enjoy leading a shift and helping to train new employees.

The purpose of this position is to provide operational and service delivery leadership for winter shelter site, including supervision and oversight of the Shelter Site Workers.

Responsibilities:
Under the direction of the Shelter Director, provides operational leadership during shift to the winter shelter site, ensuring a safe and welcoming, low-barrier environment is created and maintained.

Duties include:

• Providing direction and training to shelter staff to ensure that the shelter site is set up and broken down (dependent on shift) successfully and completely each day.
• Ensuring that shelter intake processes are completed daily, including data collection and data entry into the County's Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
• Ensuring that the coordination of transportation services to and/or from the shelter site occurs effectively.
• Ensuring that meal and other resources are provided effectively to shelter guests.
• Along with Shelter Director (when on-site), working with Shelter site workers, relevant partners and shelter guests to de-escalate situations as needed and engaging with shelter guests, as needed, to ensure needs are met and a safe and welcoming environment exists.

Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of experience working within a shelter or equivalent experience.
• At least 1 year of experience being a shift lead.
• Ability to:
  • Follow and implement requests received from supervisor with little or no supervision.
  • Adapt to change, negotiate compromise and tolerate ambiguity.
  • Build effective relationships with others who can help with work related goals.
  • Be sensitive in human interactions to diversity inclusiveness.
  • Lift up to 50 pounds

Schedule:

• The shelter will be open seven days per week.
  • First shift from 5:30PM-1:30AM, second shift from 1:00AM-9:00AM.

Compensation and Benefits:

• $28.85 per hour
• 18 days of PTO annually
• 5 sick days (starting July
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• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Matching 401k