Director of Emergency Shelter

Description

The Center for Women and Families – Director of Emergency Shelter

Together, disrupting the cycle of intimate partner and sexual violence is our mission. Do you want to join us in making a difference in the lives of people surviving power-based violence? The Center for Women and Families is looking for warm, caring, empathetic individuals driven by a desire to help others! The Director of Emergency Shelter will help to move toward our vision of thriving survivors in safe communities! 

The Center for Women and Families provides free services to people of all identities who have experienced intimate partner violence and sexual assault. We help our clients and their dependent children become survivors through trauma-informed advocacy. Our goal is to mitigate the impact of their trauma by reducing their risk factors and building their resiliency. We serve anyone in Jefferson, Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties in Kentucky and Floyd and Clark counties in Indiana. 

The Director of Emergency Shelter is responsible for directing, coordinating and overseeing The Center's Emergency Shelter operations and programs, including Food Services. They will coordinate with Development, Human Resources, Facilities, and Finance departments to provide overall direction, supervision and support of Emergency Shelter programs and staff. The Director will contribute to agency-wide strategic initiatives.

Free Lunch and Dinner are provided while working! (Onsite Cafeteria)

Our Amazing Benefits!

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Structured flexibility to support your life outside of work
• Benefits start within 60 days
• Six weeks of annual combined (PTO) plan that starts accumulating on your first day
• Accident and critical illness insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts
• Free short-term disability insurance and group life insurance 
• Long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• 401(k) with company matching 2% after 1 year
• 2 Employee Assistance Programs: one general, and one for racial trauma/stress for BIPOC employees
• Workforce Partnership with Spalding University School of Social Work, includes tuition discount

Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate trauma-informed leadership and provide best practices for comprehensive daily crisis intervention, case management, and services of the Kentucky emergency shelter to clients, direct service staff, volunteers, administration, kitchen staff, and facilities.  Provide oversight of emergency shelter goals and outcomes for adults, children, and families in transition.
• Participate in strategic planning and other performance measure processes. Contribute to a high level of CWF visioning and agency-wide outcomes. Work to infuse prevention into relevant aspects of shelter programming.
• Prepare and strategize on programmatic finances. Monitor and ensure that all decisions regarding finances are within budget.
• Collaborate and coordinate with appropriate staff on grants. Manage specific grant data in a timely and accurate manner to support the Finance and Development teams.
• Maintain quality assurance for emergency shelter operations by examining residential data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Review and write policy and procedures as required. Ensure policies are compliant with federal funders, state coalitions, and state funding standards.
• Facilitate mediation, conflict resolution, and grievance processes as needed.
• Oversee food services for emergency shelter residents and support the Supervisor of Food Services to maintain program budget, to train, evaluate and supervise kitchen assistants, to support Resident Food Council, and to maintain a safe and healthy kitchen and dining environment.
• Work to establish supportive collaboration with critical community partners.  Maintain external relationships with local programmatic resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree. A minimum of 3 years of experience in a related field may be substituted for a degree.
• A minimum of 1 year of supervisory experience.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and maintain a driving record that meets CWF automobile insurance requirements.
• Fluency in languages other than English are a plus.
• Understanding of the impacts of trauma
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to remain calm during challenges
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Organizational skills
• Critical thinking skills

Learn more about us from our social media links 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecenteronline/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-center-for-women-and-families/jobs/

We value diversity and inclusion as a key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for helping others. For us, diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one's identity. We support an inclusive workplace where staff succeed based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.

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