Overnight Advocate Full Time

YWCA SKS is the region’s largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. We’re women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you’ll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work – apply today!

Angeline’s is a Day Center for homeless women serving 75 women daily based on a harm reduction, housing first model. The goal of the Day Center is to build trusting relationships to move women out of homelessness. The Crisis Advocate will provide supportive services that help participants identify strengths, assess their needs and develop action plans to encourage stabilization.

This position has a social justice component that requires critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Provides a welcoming, safe environment by building trust and professional rapport with clients

Staffs the front desk to welcome women into the space, monitor cameras and respond to callers and visitors

Offers support and encouragement to clients transitioning out of homelessness

Assists in navigating the social service system, obtaining personal identification, apply for public assistance benefits, enrolling in Medicaid Benefits, and connecting clients to Employment Specialists at WorkSource

Assists with housing applications, advocates by connecting with landlords, and assists in housing search

Coordinates group activities and community meetings with the clients

Reads relevant documents to keep current with internal events, policies, and procedures (logs, newsflashes, and previous night’s records)

Participates in staff meetings and trainings as directed and collaborate with Housing Support Specialist and Rapid Rehousing Case Manager

Encourages a supportive community environment by coordinating activities and workshops to meet the needs of clients

Actively engages in agency-wide Race & Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) and strives for racially equitable outcomes; takes responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and welcoming community by making room for people of color, trans and gender-non-conforming folks and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions

Incorporates the YWCA’s Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in institutions.

At least two years of direct social service and experience working in a shelter setting or with homeless population strongly desired

Ability to work effectively and empathically with clients who have mental health and chemical related issues

Ability to engage with, possess a positive attitude around, provide an empathy client-centered approach, build professional rapport with, and helping relationships with our client group

Commitment to diversity including sensitivity to the needs of clients, staff and volunteers from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds

Ability and willingness to work independently, be proactive, solve problems and take initiative as well as work in and add value to a team environment, pitching in as needed to "get the job done” and to make sound judgments without on-site supervision

Basic level of computer skills critical including use of database, word processing, spreadsheet software (Microsoft Office Suite including, Word, Outlook and Excel)

Experience working with communities of color and people from different cultures than your own.

Hours, Rates, & Benefits

Hourly Range: $27.00

All positions at YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish are exposed to clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms including but not limited to: domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness, unemployment, financial hardship, etc. As a result, staff are at risk of secondary trauma. Continuously uses speech and hearing abilities in exchanging information with clients, agency staff, employers, representatives of community organizations and other individuals in the community

• Continuously stands and walks in performing duties in Center
• Frequently uses hands and wrists, fingering, handling, grasping, and reaching in using telephones, computers, kitchen equipment, donations and supplies
• At YWCA, we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants, develop culturally responsive programs, and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.

All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms, including but not limited to, racial trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness, unemployment, and financial hardship. As a result, employees are at risk of secondary trauma. To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law Poster and this EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

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