Shift Advocate (Overnights/Weekends)

Shelter Advocate
Tubman is seeking a shelter advocate to join a dynamic and collaborative team to provide welcoming supportive and affirming care to all shelter residents callers to our 24/7 resource line and walk-in clients.
The shift is Monday- Friday from 7AM - 3:30PM
Tubmans vision represents the future we want for our clients and the wider community; thriving people healthy relationships and peaceful communities. Community: Engage the community to take action.

• Invigorate organizational culture to lead with equity wellbeing and engagement.
• Strengthen the agencys infrastructure in order to better serve clients and the community.

Each year Tubman offers safety healing and hope to over 18000 people of all ages genders and cultural backgrounds who are facing violence exploitation homelessness addiction or mental health challenges. Our culturally responsive services are rooted in decades of research innovation experience and partnership.
Tubman offers a mission-centered culture that values integrity respect innovation partnership and social justice. Tubmans Commitment to Diversity and Equity
Tubman is fiercely committed to equity and inclusion. We are an affirming workplace that values peoples identities and multiple dimensions of diversity. Tubman believes that diversity equity and inclusion amongst our staff are vital to both our clients and the agencys success. We strive to hire develop and retain the best people fro m a diverse pool of candidates. Black Indigenous and people of color multilingual speakers people of all gender identities people with disabilities and veterans are all encouraged to apply.
Provide advocacy and 1:1 support to clients in the shelter connecting them to internal and external resources.

• Provides advocacy and support to 24/7 resource line callers and walk-in clients.
• Promotes safety and security in the shelter environment through administration of crisis support services security maintenance shelter floor rounds and client de-escalation.
• Complete shelter operational support tasks for example client intake/exit duties meal-time support client-assistance services ordering cabs giving out hygiene items etc. Provide assistance and support to the children and youth in the program.
• Complete necessary paperwork data entry case notes and administrative work related to client services.
• Assist in training mentoring and developing new staff interns and volunteers.

Knowledge of domestic violence-related issues and systems.

• Ability to welcome and engage a diverse group of stakeholders with a demonstrated commitment to diversity equity and inclusion.
• including harms-reduction/housing first trauma-informed care violence as a learned behavior client-centered and led work etc.
• Ability to pass a DHS fingerprint criminal background study as required by program licensing.

Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

~ The salary for the position is $21 per hour with an additional $2/hour for any hours worked on overnights and weekends . Tubman provides a quality benefits package that includes a highly competitive paid-time off program multiple health plan options dental short and long-term disability and life insurances . A s well as other optional health and wellness insurances to meet diverse employee needs and a 401(k) plan. Tubman is a qualified employer under the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness addition you will have multiple professional development and personal growth opportunities while at Tubman.