ORGANIZATION: The Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic coalition of congregations from varied faiths working together to help the homeless and hungry transition to self-sufficiency. We are deeply rooted in the community, concentrating on Contra Costa County’s homeless and low income BIPOC population. We provide a family homeless shelter, soup kitchen, affordable housing units, casework, shower, laundry, and mail services. GRIP has been incorporated since 1968 and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 1972.
Last year, GRIP provided:
- Over 20,000 shelter nights to parents and kids.
- Over 56,000 meals.
- Almost 3,000 meals to homeless encampments.
- Over 500 casework referrals.
GENERAL PURPOSE: The Part Time/On-Call Resident Counselor assumes responsibility for supervising our family homeless shelter or single adult shelter clients on an as-needed basis. This may included: enforcing shelter rules, facilitating meals, helping clients with unexpected issues, interacting with caseworkers, documenting infractions, keeping good records, and performing light cleaning and maintenance. Shifts may consist of weekends, overnights, and holidays.
DUTIES:
- Maintains operational controls of family shelter or adult overnight shelter, establishing a healthy housing environment.
- Supervise clients and guests.
- Maintains, oversees and assist with completion of chores, such as vacuuming carpets, sweeping floors, taking out trash, cleaning bathrooms and assuring that housing facility is kept in clean and sanitary condition.
- Ensures compliance with program rules, proper upkeep and clean up of dorm rooms and shared areas.
- Documents infractions of the rules.
- Assist clients with establishing short-term coping and problems solving skills.
- Regularly monitors site for safety and injury prevention.
- Maintains confidentiality of client information and records.
- Maintain positive and appropriate communications with staff and volunteers, especially the shelter manager and caseworkers.
- Coordinates meals, classes and activities.
- Coordinate and supervise volunteers.
- Maintains appropriate records, logs and guest records.
- Provide daily meal counts for the GRIP's Child and Adult Care Food Program.
- Trains and assist adults and children to promote healthily meal choices.
- Maintains facilities management (janitorial).
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the Shelter Manager or Adult Emergency Center Supervisor.
TEMPERMENT: You should be good with people going through an incredibly stressful chapter of their lives. You should have good problem-solving skills and a calm, graceful demeanor to clients. You also will need to establish and maintain professional boundaries with our residents.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $25.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
