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Resident Advocate (Temp Position)

House of Ruth Maryland
House of Ruth Maryland Salary
Baltimore, MD Temporary
POSTED ON 1/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/22/2025
Position Summary

The Resident Advocate is an essential staff position primarily responsible for covering the daily operations of the Shelter program, including welcoming and orienting new residents to the program, providing crisis intervention and conflict resolution services to residents, and daily enrichment activities to improve shelter stay. This position is also responsible for back up coverage on the 24-hour hotline and back up coverage for operations activities such as readying a room for occupancy, accepting and distributing donations, and light housekeeping. Shelter Residents are traumatized both by the intimate partner violence they experienced, and the sudden experience of homelessness. Families may also have unrelated trauma experiences from their lives. The Resident Advocate must be comfortable engaging traumatized people in a sensitive manner and must be comfortable working in a Voluntary Services program model.

Standard Schedule: This is a Monday - Friday 4 pm -12 am Temporary position with a possibility of extension. As an essential staff position, the Resident Advocate is expected to report to work in weather emergencies, and on Holidays that fall within scheduled work days.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Welcomes new residents, complete paperwork, and orient residents to building and program.
  • Provides supportive listening, crisis intervention and conflict resolution to residents.
  • Regularly walks through building and engages residents in conversation, encouragement, and support.
  • Educates residents on community and agency resources and helps make connections to said resources.
  • Educates residents on intimate partner violence, safety planning, and life skills through one on one interaction and through informational materials and bulletin boards.
  • Sorts, inventories, and distributes material goods and donations in accordance with shelter procedure such as clothing, medications, bus tokens, and personal hygiene supplies.
  • Opens the computer lab and provides guidance and assistance to special event and ongoing volunteers.
  • Acts as back up to Operations Assistant on room turnover including cleaning/ preparing rooms.
  • Answer 24-hour hotline as back up to Contact Center and provides triage to police drops off/ walk in participants.
  • Completes daily documentation of activities through agency software system and paper system.
  • Is responsible for specific data entry tasks related to statistics and funding requirements.
  • Authorizes new admissions to shelter program within guidelines set by program leadership.
  • Approves childcare agreements between residents.
  • Distributes bus tokens and cab vouchers to program residents.
  • Intervenes in urgent threats to harm of self or others through calling appropriate Emergency Response Personnel.
  • Recommends steps for intervention in non-life threatening resident crisis or conflict to Service Coordination and Residential Leads.
  • Represents the agency with donors, area service providers, and volunteers.
  • Meets program quality and service targets: including deadlines for timely and accurate completion of data entry efforts, resident intake and exit paperwork.
  • Residents are well educated on program requirements and resources available to them in Shelter.
  • Bus tokens, Lyft’s and monthly bus passes are disbursed within budget and have appropriate documentation to justify expenditures.
  • Residents and volunteers to the program feel welcomed and have the basic tools they need to be successful (i.e. toiletries and information on mealtimes for residents, sign in sheets and information on facilities for volunteers)
  • Computer lab is kept in good working condition with accurate up to date resources.
  • New resident intake paperwork and resident exit information in entered into ETO within 16 hours of entry or exit from program.
  • Goals, tasks and targets on six-month work plans are consistently met.
  • Referrals to HRM client services.
  • Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay: $20-$22/hr

Experience, Education, Certifications/Licenses

  • One year paid or unpaid experience working in victim centered advocacy or working in a residential setting (school, hospital, shelter, nursing home, group home, etc). High school diploma/ GED equivalent may substitute for six months experience.
  • Effective verbal, listening, and writing skills, with a strong ability to relate to a diverse range of individuals including victims, children, donors, and service providers.
  • High degree of reliability in completing tasks assigned in the manner expected.
  • Ability to report to work in adverse weather conditions and Holidays as scheduled.
  • Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds.
  • Must pass a criminal background check.

House of Ruth Maryland offers a comprehensive Total Rewards Package that will include but is not limited to medical insurance, prescription plan, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, life insurance, 403(b) retirement savings plan, and Employee Assistance Program.

House of Ruth Maryland upholds the mission of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment and will not be excluded because of color, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status or age.

Salary : $20 - $22

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