Transportation Worker

NCCF; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 29,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

NCCF in Washington, DC area seeks an efficient Transportation Specialist to arrange daily routes for youth receiving services, ensuring safe pickup and delivery, and keeping foster parents informed of schedules.

You will coordinate with staff, transport clients to appointments, school visits, and medical screenings, and provide timely incident reporting while maintaining logs and complying with safety standards.

Qualifications

• Valid driver’s license with clean driving history.
• High school diploma or GED with customer service experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented with good record-keeping and deadlines.
• Commitment to teamwork and serving vulnerable families.

Responsibilities

• Develops and manages daily transportation route for all youth receiving services.
• Makes daily logs of transportation times and ensures safe delivery to locations.
• Transports clients to appointments, visits, and medical screenings as requested.
• Transports clients to school when other options unavailable and informs foster parents.
• Provides transportation outside normal hours when needed and coordinates leave with supervisors.
• Greets customers, assists with boarding, and secures children in seats and car seats.
• Reports incidents promptly and completes required incident reports.

Skills

Customer service

Verbal and written comms

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Position Purpose:

Provide safe and efficient transport of clients to and from school, services, and parent/child visits, while keeping foster parents informed of scheduled services.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and manages daily transportation route for all youth receiving services.
• Maintains daily log of child/youth scheduled transportation times and safe delivery to pre-identified location.
• Transports clients to appointments, visits, and medical screenings as requested by Coordinator.
• Transports clients to medical screens per placement change.
• Transports clients to and from school when DCPS and CFSA are unavailable, or services are not approved; and informing foster parents of the time-of-service pick-up and/or arrival to the home.
• Provides transportation outside of normal (9am - 5pm) business hours, (i.e. placement disruptions, school).
• Arranges transportation with colleagues to be approved by supervisor when preparing to take leave or unable to provide service due to illness with sufficient notice.
• Greets all customers and assist with boarding transportation and securing young children in seat belts and car seats as appropriate.
• Reports all incidents to supervisor in a timely manner and required incident reports for approval.

Non-Essential Duties:

• Other duties as assigned.
• Participates in full staff meetings.
• Provides administrative support to include deliveries and photo copying.

Qualifications:

• Valid and violation-free driver’s license and driving history.
• High School Diploma/GED required with excellent customer service skills or combination of relevant education, training and work experience required.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, verbal and written.
• Demonstrates detail orientation, record keeping skills, proven ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
• Demonstrated cultural competency and cultural responsiveness.
• Demonstrates commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and the Agency’s mission to progressively serve vulnerable families and youth.
• Must possess an attitude compatible with the goals and purposes of NCCF.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Salary: $21 - $22/hour