Homeless Shelter Site Lead

Community Family Advocates; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); In loco; USD 34.000 - 45.000; Tempo pieno

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Community Family Advocates in Pittsburgh seeks a Shelter Site Lead to provide operational and service delivery leadership for the winter shelter site, supervising Shelter Site Workers and ensuring a safe, welcoming, low-barrier environment.

Reporting to the Shelter Director, you will guide shift operations, oversee intake and HMIS data entry, coordinate transportation, and ensure meals and resources reach guests; you will also work with partners and guests to de-escalate situations and meet

Competenze

• Ability to follow supervisor requests with minimal supervision.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and tolerate ambiguity.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and partners.
• Sensitivity to diversity and inclusive behaviors in interactions.
• Physical capability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Mansioni

• Provide direction and training to shelter staff to ensure daily setup and breakdown of the site.
• Oversee daily intake processes and data entry into HMIS.
• Coordinate transportation services to and from the shelter site.
• Ensure meals and other resources reach shelter guests effectively.
• Collaborate with Shelter Director, staff, partners and guests to de-escalate situations and meet guest needs.

Conoscenze

Follow instructions

Adapt to change

Relationship building

Diversity & inclusiveness

Lifts up to 50 pounds

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Shelter Site Lead

Purpose:

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:

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:

• Position will beginNovember 18through Mid-March
• Available for five shifts per week.
  • The shelter will be open seven days per week. First shift from 5:30PM-1:30AM, second shift from 1:00AM-9:00AM.

Location:

• This position reports to a shelter at 2610 Maple Ave. in the North Side of Pittsburgh.

Compensation:

• $28.85 an hour