A Woman’s Place is seeking a dedicated and passionate individual who embodies the agency's values of courage, creativity, equality, integrity, respect and social justice join our Safe House team and the movement of ending intimate and domestic violence for all. The schedule for this position is Saturday-Monday 4pm-12am. The Resident Counseling Advocate works within AWP’s emergency safe house, assisting survivors of domestic violence in achieving safety and self-sufficiency. If you are looking to make an impact, work within a social justice agency and support those who are experiencing domestic violence, please read the full job description below and submit your resume and cover letter to apply.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
- Provide services to victims of domestic violence that support the Values, Vision, and Mission statements of the organization.
- Work with individuals to create change in their lives, which supports ending gender oppression and violence towards women.
- Provide advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence that emphasizes improved safety and economic self-sufficiency.
- Provide services that improve immediate safety and prevent reoccurrence of relationship violence, including safety planning, lethality risk assessment, and linkages to specialized legal and therapeutic services.
- Provide residents with assistance in meeting identified goals and objectives in a centralized focus of victim safety, well-being and autonomy as identified by the client.
- Provide services that improve economic self-sufficiency of survivors, including financial education, job searches, interview preparation, assistance with resume preparation and job applications, assistance accessing public benefits, and job placement programs.
- Assist with facilitating house meetings as needed with a focus on issues identified by the residents, or housing manager
- Assist survivors with goal setting, planning, follow through, tracking progress, and celebrating success.
- Coach clients to advocate on their own behalf with creditors and other financial institutions, employers, bill collectors, landlords, public and community-based programs.
- Maintain a comprehensive directory of local resources that are relevant to improving client self-sufficiency.
- Advocate for expedited referral processes to enroll survivors in job training and placement programs.
- Conduct an intake assessment with each new resident identifying their goals, objectives, and needs as identified by the survivor.
- Provide regular meetings with residents to work on identified areas of need.
- Incorporate trauma related injuries and education into the information provided to shelter residents, community clients, and hotline callers.
- Daily data entry in order to maintain accurate statistical databases.
- Answer and provide assistance to callers on the 24/7 hotline.
- Provide training on Hotline coverage to new staff and volunteers when requested.
- Organize and distribute donations
Criteria/Requirements:
- Commitment to AWP’s Values, Mission, and Vision statements.
- Adherence to the Personnel Policies of AWP
- Successful completion of Domestic Violence Direct Service Training course and continuing educational requirements.
- Honesty and trustworthiness in all relationships.
- Excellent and effective written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to make independent decisions and solve complex problems.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team setting.
- Emotionally resilient and able to withstand pressure on an on-going basis.
- Deal with difficult situations while maintaining quality of services.
- Adapt readily to changing work environments, work priorities, and organizational needs.
- Reliable Transportation
- Must be available to work overnights and week-ends.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and/or
2 years of related work experience
Characteristics:
- Treats all people with respect, values diverse populations, and cultures.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Demonstrated degree of initiative and creativity
- Must be flexible and have the ability to multi task.
- Anticipates problems and seeks resolutions
- Ability to prioritize tasks and requests and work in a confidential setting
- Reliable, personally responsible, and trustworthy
- Willingness to work varied hours including some weekends and evenings
- Data entry skills
- Microsoft Office proficient
JOB DIMENSIONS:
Assignment and Approval of Work:
The Resident Counseling Advocate is directly supervised by the Safe House Manager and receives assignments and directions from the Safe House Manager.
Financial Responsibility:
- Prior approval from the housing manager for any programmatic expenses.
- Accurate and timely reporting of any expense reports.
- Accurate accounting of any expenses from Resident’s fund, gift cards, and bus tokens.
Responsibility and Decision-Making:
- Demonstrate initiative
- Assist with decision making regarding the acceptance of new clients into shelter.
- Assist in providing coverage for shelter and Hotline.
Data Reporting:
- Daily, accurate reporting of all data into all necessary databases.
License/Certifications:
- 33/34 clearance
- Valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License
- Valid vehicle registration and insurance
Physical Demands/Environmental Conditions:
- Operation of office equipment
- Lifting and carrying donations to stock pantry.
- Occasional travel
- Willingness and ability to work varied hours, including nights and weekends.
- Exposure to cleaning supplies, office chemicals, and insecticides
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $21.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Employee assistance program
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Evening shift
- Every weekend
- Holidays
- Night shift
Shift availability:
Work Location: In person